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    MIPS: Make TASK_SIZE reflect proper size for both 32 and 64 bit processes. · 949e51be
    David Daney authored
    
    
    The TASK_SIZE macro should reflect the size of a user process virtual
    address space.  Previously for 64-bit kernels, this was not the case.
    The immediate cause of pain was in
    hugetlbfs/inode.c:hugetlb_get_unmapped_area() where 32-bit processes
    trying to mmap a huge page would be served a page with an address
    outside of the 32-bit address range.  But there are other uses of
    TASK_SIZE in the kernel as well that would like an accurate value.
    
    The new definition is nice because it now makes TASK_SIZE and
    TASK_SIZE_OF() yield the same value for any given process.
    
    For 32-bit kernels there should be no change, although I did factor
    out some code in asm/processor.h that became identical for the 32-bit and
    64-bit cases.
    
    __UA_LIMIT is now set to ~((1 << SEGBITS) - 1) for 64-bit kernels.
    This should eliminate the possibility of getting a
    AddressErrorException in the kernel for addresses that pass the
    access_ok() test.
    
    With the patch applied, I can still run o32, n32 and n64 processes,
    and have an o32 shell fork/exec both n32 and n64 processes.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
    To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
    Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1701/
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