On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > There a few legacy applications out there (such as some ancient > > > > > > > > ... would you please fix this typo/grammo as well? (There a few ...) > > > > > > > > > versions of libc.so.5 from 1996) that assume that brk area starts > > > > > > > > Also, the text itself doesn't seem to be super-clear ... namely, it > > > > describes what CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK is about, but doesn't really clarify how > > > > exactly does this correlate with randomize_va_space == 2. Would you mind > > > > also fixing this bit? > > > > > > I hope I didn't misread the sources :-) Opinions? > > > > > > --- > > > > > > The documentation for /proc/sys/kernel/* does not mention the possible > > > value 2 for randomize-va-space yet. While being there, doing some > > > reformatting, fixing grammar problems and clarifying the correlations > > > between randomize-va-space, kernel parameter "norandmaps" and the > > > CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK option. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Horst Schirmeier <horst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> > > > > Ingo, will you take this through your tree? > > > > > > > > --- > > > Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 30 +++++++++++++++++------------- > > > 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) > > This could go to your or Randy's docs tree, right? (would be fine by > me) Sure, I basically just wanted your ACK, as you were the last one touching the respective code. I will queue it, thanks. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
