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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-08-22 18:13:06 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-08-22 19:18:44 +0200
commit5ea80f76a56605a190a7ea16846c82aa63dbd0aa (patch)
tree99e6547e8bbbcb3187676bb7a002be9d24c6b53e /arch/x86/kernel
parentMerge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.11-rc6-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/lin... (diff)
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Revert "x86 get_unmapped_area(): use proper mmap base for bottom-up direction"
This reverts commit df54d6fa54275ce59660453e29d1228c2b45a826. The commit isn't necessarily wrong, but because it recalculates the random mmap_base every time, it seems to confuse user memory allocators that expect contiguous mmap allocations even when the mmap address isn't specified. In particular, the MATLAB Java runtime seems to be unhappy. See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60774 So we'll want to apply the random offset only once, and Radu has a patch for that. Revert this older commit in order to apply the other one. Reported-by: Jeff Shorey <shoreyjeff@gmail.com> Cc: Radu Caragea <sinaelgl@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c
index 48f8375e4c6b..dbded5aedb81 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ static void find_start_end(unsigned long flags, unsigned long *begin,
*begin = new_begin;
}
} else {
- *begin = mmap_legacy_base();
+ *begin = TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE;
*end = TASK_SIZE;
}
}