Hi, > I've got a ppc64 box running 2.6.14. 64-bit kernel, 32-bit userspace. > It has a ~86KB chunk of memory near the top of the process address > space, and I'm not sure who's setting it up and what the purpose is. In > /proc/<pid>/maps it looks like this: > > fffea000-fffff000 rw-p fffea000 00:00 0 > > Can anyone enlighten me as to what this is for and who is allocating it?
Looks like your process stack. BTW we leave the top page (0xfffff000 - 0xffffffff) unmapped mostly because of test cases that expect *(unsigned long *)-1UL to fail. Anton _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
