linux-kernel - Re: Getting rid of dynamic TASK

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Message-ID: <20160511055954.GA2994@uranus.lan>
Date:	Wed, 11 May 2016 08:59:54 +0300
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc:	Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@...il.com>,
	Ruslan Kabatsayev <b7.10110111@...il.com>,
	X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: Getting rid of dynamic TASK_SIZE (on x86, at least)

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 02:11:41PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
 >
> > For sure page faulting must consider what kind of fault is it.
> > Or we gonna drop such code at all?
> 
> That code was bogus.  (Well, it was correct unless user code had a way
> to create a funny high mapping in an otherwise 32-bit task, but it
> still should have been TASK_SIZE_MAX.)  Fix sent.

OK, great!