Re: [PATCH] Mark thread stack correctly in proc/<pid>/maps

[Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh.poyarekar@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Jamie Lokier <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is there a reason the names aren't consistent - i.e. not vma_is_stack_guard()?

Ah, that was an error on my part; I did not notice the naming convention.

> How about simply calling it vma_is_guard(), return 1 if it's PROT_NONE
> without checking vma_is_stack() or ->vm_next/prev, and annotate the
> maps output like this:
>
>   is_stack              => "[stack]"
>   is_guard & is_stack   => "[stack guard]"
>   is_guard & !is_stack  => "[guard]"
>
> What do you think?

Thanks for the review. We're already marking permissions in the maps
output to convey protection, so isn't marking those vmas as [guard]
redundant?

Following that, we could just mark the thread stack guard as [stack]
without any permissions. The process stack guard page probably
deserves the [stack guard] label since it is marked differently from
the thread stack guard and will otherwise have the permissions that
the process stack has. Will that be good?

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Siddhesh Poyarekar
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