Re: [patch] 2.4.4: mmap() fails for certain legal requests

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>]

On Wed, 9 May 2001, Michael Shmulevich wrote:

> As a side question: does this patch apply to 2.2.x kernel too?

 Feel free to backport it. ;-)  One hunk fails for 2.2.19, but it can be
applied by hand (note the vma variable is named vmm in 2.2). 

> While working on ld.so.1-9 port on MIPS I seen there's a try to mmap() 
> some address > 0x80000000 which fails due to the same 
> if(...TASK_SIZE...) mentioned in the patch.

 Yep, that's the exact problem, assuming MAP_FIXED is not set in flags
(something is screwed if it is). 

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