Re: vm_ops.page_mkwrite() fails with vmalloc on 2.6.23

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 01:17 -0700, Jaya Kumar wrote:
> On 10/29/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:40:57 +0200 Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > The problem original occurs with the fb_defio driver (driver/video/fb_defio.c).
> > > This driver use the vm_ops.page_mkwrite() handler for tracking the modified pages,
> > > which will be in an extra thread handled, to perform the IO and clean and
> > > write protect all pages with page_clean().
> > >

> An aside, I just tested that deferred IO works fine on 2.6.22.10/pxa255.
> 
> I understood from the thread that PeterZ is looking into page_mkclean
> changes which I guess went into 2.6.23. I'm also happy to help in any
> way if the way we're doing fb_defio needs to change.

OK, seems I can't read. Or at least, I missed a large part of the
problem.

page_mkclean() hasn't changed, it was ->page_mkwrite() that changed. And
looking at the fb_defio code, I'm not sure I understand how its
page_mkclean() use could ever have worked.

The proposed patch [1] only fixes the issue of ->page_mkwrite() on
vmalloc()'ed memory. Not page_mkclean(), and that has never worked from
what I can make of it.

Jaya, could you shed some light on this? I presume you had your display
working.


[1] which I will clean up and resend after this issue is cleared up -
and preferably tested by someone who has this hardware.