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Re: [PATCH] arm64: Expose TASK_SIZE to userspace via auxv

From Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] arm64: Expose TASK_SIZE to userspace via auxv
Date 2016-08-17 12:40 +0200
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On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 02:32:29PM -0400, Christopher Covington wrote:
> Some userspace applications need to know the maximum virtual address they can
> use (TASK_SIZE).

Just curious, what are the cases needing TASK_SIZE in user space?

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Catalin

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[PATCH] arm64: Expose TASK_SIZE to userspace via auxv Christopher Covington <cov@codeaurora.org> - 2016-08-16 20:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] arm64: Expose TASK_SIZE to userspace via auxv Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> - 2016-08-17 12:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] arm64: Expose TASK_SIZE to userspace via auxv Christopher Covington <cov@codeaurora.org> - 2016-08-17 13:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] arm64: Expose TASK_SIZE to userspace via auxv Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> - 2016-08-18 14:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] arm64: Expose TASK_SIZE to userspace via auxv Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> - 2016-08-18 14:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] arm64: Expose TASK_SIZE to userspace via auxv Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> - 2016-08-18 15:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] arm64: Expose TASK_SIZE to userspace via auxv Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> - 2016-08-18 14:20 +0200

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