1. 09 2月, 2008 1 次提交
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      uml: runtime host VMSPLIT detection · 536788fe
      Jeff Dike 提交于
      Calculate TASK_SIZE at run-time by figuring out the host's VMSPLIT - this is
      needed on i386 if UML is to run on hosts with varying VMSPLITs without
      recompilation.
      
      TASK_SIZE is now defined in terms of a variable, task_size.  This gets rid of
      an include of pgtable.h from processor.h, which can cause include loops.
      
      On i386, task_size is calculated early in boot by probing the address space in
      a binary search to figure out where the boundary between usable and non-usable
      memory is.  This tries to make sure that a page that is considered to be in
      userspace is, or can be made, read-write.  I'm concerned about a system-global
      VDSO page in kernel memory being hit and considered to be a userspace page.
      
      On x86_64, task_size is just the old value of CONFIG_TOP_ADDR.
      
      A bunch of config variable are gone now.  CONFIG_TOP_ADDR is directly replaced
      by TASK_SIZE.  NEST_LEVEL is gone since the relocation of the stubs makes it
      irrelevant.  All the HOST_VMSPLIT stuff is gone.  All references to these in
      arch/um/Makefile are also gone.
      
      I noticed and fixed a missing extern in os.h when adding os_get_task_size.
      
      Note: This has been revised to fix the 32-bit UML on 64-bit host bug that
      Miklos ran into.
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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