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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-09 23:29:57 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-09 23:29:57 -0800
commit0b6ca82af83a79f3d1001c8a0701ed34ac38126e (patch)
treedef8eb112c513b21e826e370f2f34249e97914eb /Documentation
parentbfc1de0c40a26c6daa46c297e28138aecb4c5664 (diff)
parentfac84939609a683503947f41eb93e1917d026263 (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86: (32 commits) x86: cpa, strict range check in try_preserve_large_page() x86: cpa, enable CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC on 64-bit x86: cpa, use page pool x86: introduce page pool in cpa x86: DEBUG_PAGEALLOC: enable after mem_init() brk: help text typo fix lguest: accept guest _PAGE_PWT page table entries x86 PM: update stale comments x86 PM: consolidate suspend and hibernation code x86 PM: rename 32-bit files in arch/x86/power x86 PM: move 64-bit hibernation files to arch/x86/power x86: trivial printk optimizations x86: fix early_ioremap pagetable ops x86: construct 32-bit boot time page tables in native format. x86, core: remove CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING x86: avoid unused variable warning in mm/init_64.c x86: fixup more paravirt fallout brk: document randomize_va_space and CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK (was Re: x86: fix sparse warnings in acpi/bus.c x86: fix sparse warning in topology.c ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt29
2 files changed, 29 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 2039f47f2e65..4d3aa519eadf 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -111,15 +111,6 @@ Who: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---------------------------
-What: CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING
-When: June 2006
-Why: Config option is there to see if gcc is good enough. (in january
- 2006). If it is, the behavior should just be the default. If it's not,
- the option should just go away entirely.
-Who: Arjan van de Ven
-
----------------------------
-
What: eepro100 network driver
When: January 2007
Why: replaced by the e100 driver
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index 8984a5396271..dc8801d4e944 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel:
- pid_max
- powersave-nap [ PPC only ]
- printk
+- randomize_va_space
- real-root-dev ==> Documentation/initrd.txt
- reboot-cmd [ SPARC only ]
- rtsig-max
@@ -280,6 +281,34 @@ send before ratelimiting kicks in.
==============================================================
+randomize-va-space:
+
+This option can be used to select the type of process address
+space randomization that is used in the system, for architectures
+that support this feature.
+
+0 - Turn the process address space randomization off by default.
+
+1 - Make the addresses of mmap base, stack and VDSO page randomized.
+ This, among other things, implies that shared libraries will be
+ loaded to random addresses. Also for PIE-linked binaries, the location
+ of code start is randomized.
+
+ With heap randomization, the situation is a little bit more
+ complicated.
+ There a few legacy applications out there (such as some ancient
+ versions of libc.so.5 from 1996) that assume that brk area starts
+ just after the end of the code+bss. These applications break when
+ start of the brk area is randomized. There are however no known
+ non-legacy applications that would be broken this way, so for most
+ systems it is safe to choose full randomization. However there is
+ a CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK option for systems with ancient and/or broken
+ binaries, that makes heap non-randomized, but keeps all other
+ parts of process address space randomized if randomize_va_space
+ sysctl is turned on.
+
+==============================================================
+
reboot-cmd: (Sparc only)
??? This seems to be a way to give an argument to the Sparc