On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 11:41:34AM +0000, Peter Horton wrote: > The current MIPS 2.4 kernel (from CVS) currently allows fixed shared > mappings to violate D-cache aliasing constraints. > > The check for illegal fixed mappings is done in > arch_get_unmapped_area(), but these mappings are granted in > get_unmapped_area() and arch_get_unmapped_area() is never called. > > A quick look at sparc and sparc64 seem to show the same problem. Ehh... <asm/pgtable.h> defines HAVE_ARCH_UNMAPPED_AREA therefore get_unmapped_area calls the arch's version of arch_get_unmapped_area instead of the generic version in mm/mmap.c Ralf
