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From: Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	akpm@osdl.org, jdike@addtoit.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: [uml-devel] Re: [patch 18/39] remap_file_pages protection support: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:45:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200508231045.50500.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050815111548.F19811@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Monday 15 August 2005 12:15, Russell King wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 08:12:54PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Well there is now, and that is we are now using a bit in the 2nd
> > byte as flags. So I had to do away with -ve numbers there entirely.

> > You could achieve a similar thing by using another bit in that byte
> > #define VM_FAULT_FAILED 0x20
> > and make that bit present in VM_FAULT_OOM and VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, then
> > do an unlikely test for that bit in your handler and branch away to
> > the slow path.
 
> That'll do as well, thanks.
Note that what Nick said is about mainline kernels, not only my brave patch.

Currently Linus fixed up ARM26 by disabling the optimization: see git commit 
6e346228c76506e07e297744a28464022c6806ad.
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From: Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	akpm@osdl.org, jdike@addtoit.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [patch 18/39] remap_file_pages protection support: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:45:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200508231045.50500.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050815111548.F19811@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Monday 15 August 2005 12:15, Russell King wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 08:12:54PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Well there is now, and that is we are now using a bit in the 2nd
> > byte as flags. So I had to do away with -ve numbers there entirely.

> > You could achieve a similar thing by using another bit in that byte
> > #define VM_FAULT_FAILED 0x20
> > and make that bit present in VM_FAULT_OOM and VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, then
> > do an unlikely test for that bit in your handler and branch away to
> > the slow path.
 
> That'll do as well, thanks.
Note that what Nick said is about mainline kernels, not only my brave patch.

Currently Linus fixed up ARM26 by disabling the optimization: see git commit 
6e346228c76506e07e297744a28464022c6806ad.
-- 
Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!".
Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894)
http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade


	

	
		
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-26 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-12 18:21 [uml-devel] [patch 18/39] remap_file_pages protection support: add VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV blaisorblade
2005-08-12 18:21 ` blaisorblade
2005-08-15  9:40 ` [uml-devel] " Russell King
2005-08-15  9:40   ` Russell King
2005-08-15 10:12   ` [uml-devel] " Nick Piggin
2005-08-15 10:12     ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-15 10:15     ` [uml-devel] " Russell King
2005-08-15 10:15       ` Russell King
2005-08-15 10:25       ` Russell King
2005-08-23  8:45       ` Blaisorblade [this message]
2005-08-23  8:45         ` Blaisorblade

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