On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 03:47:26PM +0100, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The core mm code will provide a default gate area based on > > FIXADDR_USER_START and FIXADDR_USER_END if > > !defined(__HAVE_ARCH_GATE_AREA) && defined(AT_SYSINFO_EHDR). > > > > This default is only useful for ia64. arm64, ppc, s390, sh, tile, > > 64-bit UML, and x86_32 have their own code just to disable it. arm, > > 32-bit UML, and x86_64 have gate areas, but they have their own > > implementations. > > > > This gets rid of the default and moves the code into ia64. > > > > This should save some code on architectures without a gate area: it's > > now possible to inline the gate_area functions in the default case. > > Can one of you pull this somewhere? Otherwise I can put it somewhere > stable and ask for -next inclusion, but that seems like overkill for a > single patch. I'd be happy to take the arm64 part, but it doesn't feel right for mm/* changes (or changes to other archs) to go via our tree. I'm not sure what the best approach is if you want to send this via a single tree. Maybe you could ask akpm nicely? Will -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>