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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1103091631280.23039@esdhcp041196.research.nokia.com> Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 16:36:35 +0200 (EET) From: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@...ia.com> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> cc: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@...ia.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com, stable@...nel.org Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] procfs: fix /proc/<pid>/maps heap check Hi, On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 15:23:14 +0200 > Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@...ia.com> wrote: > >> The current code fails to print the "[heap]" marking if the heap is >> splitted into multiple mappings. >> >> Fix the check so that the marking is displayed in all possible cases: >> 1. vma matches exactly the heap >> 2. the heap vma is merged e.g. with bss >> 3. the heap vma is splitted e.g. due to locked pages >> >> Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@...ia.com> >> Cc: stable@...nel.org > > Why do you believe this problem is serious enough to justify > backporting the fix into -stable? My bad analysis. It looks like the bug has been there forever, and since it only results in some information missing from a procfile, it does not fulfil the stable "critical issue" criteria. A. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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