[PATCH 2/2] ARM: memory: define TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE in terms of TASK_SIZE

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Wed Jan 30 14:13:55 EST 2013


On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 06:57:24PM +0000, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Will Deacon wrote:
> 
> > TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE is defined directly in terms of PAGE_OFFSET, which is
> > confusing given that the modules area sits between here and TASK_SIZE
> > and is not available for user allocations.
> > 
> > This patch defines TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE in terms of TASK_SIZE instead and
> > fixes a bug introduced by 394ef6403abc ("mm: use vm_unmapped_area() on
> > arm architecture") whereby TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE is no longer page-aligned
> > for bottom-up mmap, causing get_unmapped_area to choke on misaligned
> > addresses.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall at cs.columbia.edu>
> > Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h
> > index a0fd518..255a01b 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h
> > +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/memory.h
> > @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
> >   */
> >  #define PAGE_OFFSET		UL(CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET)
> >  #define TASK_SIZE		(UL(CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET) - UL(SZ_16M))
> > -#define TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE	(UL(CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET) / 3)
> > +#define TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE	((TASK_SIZE / 3) & ~UL(SZ_16M - 1))
> 
> Please round this up not down.  In most cases, TASK_SIZE is 0xbf000000 
> which is not nicely divisible by 3, unlike PAGE_OFFSET was.  By rounding 
> up you get a nice 0x40000000 as before.

Sure, I think ALIGN does that for us, so I can use that instead.

Cheers,

Will



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