Re: [PATCH] fix madvise vma merging

2005-08-08 Thread Prasanna Meda
Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Prasanna Meda wrote: > > Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > > > 2. Correct initial value of prev when starting part way into a vma: as > > >in sys_mprotect and do_mlock, it needs to be set to vma in this case > > >

Re: [PATCH] fix madvise vma merging

2005-08-05 Thread Prasanna Meda
Hugh Dickins wrote: > Better late than never, I've at last reviewed the madvise vma merging > going into 2.6.13. Remove a pointless check and fix two little bugs - > a simple test (with /proc//maps hacked to show ReadHints) showed > both mismerges in practice: though being madvise, neither was di

Re: /proc//maps API addition - seek to address

2005-01-16 Thread Prasanna Meda
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > It would be terribly useful to have some way of > lseeking /proc//maps to the entry of a particular address. So, if > you want to find the information about a mapping containing address > 0x12345678, it would set the file position to (say) the entry of > 0x1200-0x