From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268684AbUHTTZl (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 15:25:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268683AbUHTTZl (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 15:25:41 -0400 Received: from herkules.viasys.com ([194.100.28.129]:10941 "HELO mail.viasys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S268662AbUHTTZY (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2004 15:25:24 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 22:25:18 +0300 From: Ville Herva To: Andrew Morton Cc: petr@vandrovec.name, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: 2.6.8.1-mm2 breaks vmware Message-ID: <20040820192518.GK23741@viasys.com> Reply-To: vherva@viasys.com References: <20040820104230.GH23741@viasys.com> <20040820035142.3bcdb1cb.akpm@osdl.org> <20040820131825.GI23741@viasys.com> <20040820144304.GF8307@viasys.com> <20040820151621.GJ23741@viasys.com> <20040820114518.49a65b69.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040820114518.49a65b69.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: Linux herkules.viasys.com 2.4.27 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 11:45:18AM -0700, you [Andrew Morton] wrote: > > > > Ok, 2.6.8.1-mm2 minus dev-mem-restriction-patch.patch fixes the "cannot > > allocate memory" problem. > > Thanks for working that out. No problem. (If only compile-reboot-startx-launch vmware was faster on my computer...) > > vmmon: Your kernel is br0ken. get_user_pages(current, current->mm, b7dd1000, 1, 1, 0, &page, NULL) returned -14. > > vmmon: I'll try accessing page tables directly, but you should know that your > > vmmon: kernel is br0ken and you should uninstall all additional patches you vmmon: have installed! > > vmmon: FYI, copy_from_user(b7dd1000) returns 0 (if not 0 maybe your kernel is not br0ken) > > > > I'm still not 100% which of the patches causes that get_user_pages() > > warning. > > If you could work that out sometime, it would help. I'll try to do that as soon as I find time. -- v -- v@iki.fi