linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nommu: reject MAP

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Message-ID: <20100105124714.GA6620@us.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 5 Jan 2010 12:47:14 +0000
From:	Eric B Munson <ebmunson@...ibm.com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nommu: reject MAP_HUGETLB

On Tue, 05 Jan 2010, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> We've agreed to restore the rejection of MAP_HUGETLB to nommu.
> Mimic what happens with mmu when hugetlb is not configured in:
> say -ENOSYS, but -EINVAL if MAP_ANONYMOUS was not given too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>

Acked-by: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@...ibm.com>

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