From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 20:47:45 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: [PATCH] x86_64: Fix stack/mmap randomization for compat tasks
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.17-rc6~81
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6ae53cd496d36db5f25e6f84b8b9fe7e675999a1;p=pandora-kernel.git

[PATCH] x86_64: Fix stack/mmap randomization for compat tasks

ia32_setup_arg_pages would ignore the passed in random stack top
and use its own static value.

Now it uses the 8bit of randomness native i386 would use too.

This indirectly fixes mmap randomization for 32bit processes too,
which depends on the stack randomization.

Should also give slightly better virtual cache colouring and
possibly better performance with HyperThreading.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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