From: Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>
To: nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Nick's core remove PageReserved broke vmware...
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 20:30:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4367C25B.7010300@vc.cvut.cz> (raw)
Hello Nick,
what's the reason behind disallowing get_user_pages() on VM_RESERVED regions?
vmmon uses VM_RESERVED on its 'vma' as otherwise some kernels used by SUSE
complained loudly about mismatch between PageReserved() and VM_RESERVED flags.
I'll remove it from vmmon for >= 2.6.14 kernels as that bogus test never made
to Linux kernel, but I cannot find any reason why get_user_pages() should not
work on VM_RESERVED (or VM_IO for that matter) user pages. Can you show me
reasoning behind that decision ?
Thanks,
Petr Vandrovec
b5810039a54e5babf428e9a1e89fc1940fabff11
tree 835836cb527ec9bd525f93eb7e016f3dfb8c8ae2
parent f9c98d0287de42221c624482fd4f8d485c98ab22
author Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:16:12 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> Sat, 29 Oct 2005 21:40:39 -0700
[PATCH] core remove PageReserved
Remove PageReserved() calls from core code by tightening VM_RESERVED
handling in mm/ to cover PageReserved functionality.
next reply other threads:[~2005-11-01 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-01 19:30 Petr Vandrovec [this message]
2005-11-02 0:34 ` Nick's core remove PageReserved broke vmware Nick Piggin
2005-11-02 1:17 ` Petr Vandrovec
2005-11-02 2:09 ` Nick Piggin
2005-11-02 12:26 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-02 18:06 ` Petr Vandrovec
2005-11-02 21:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-02 21:41 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-02 21:45 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-02 22:02 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-02 22:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-03 8:03 ` Gleb Natapov
2005-11-03 13:32 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-03 13:55 ` Gleb Natapov
2005-11-03 21:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-11-02 22:39 ` Petr Vandrovec
2005-11-03 8:12 ` Gleb Natapov
2005-11-03 14:11 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-03 14:22 ` Gleb Natapov
2005-11-03 14:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2005-11-03 14:59 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-03 15:09 ` Gleb Natapov
2005-11-03 15:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2005-11-03 15:37 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-03 15:53 ` Gleb Natapov
2005-11-03 15:56 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2005-11-08 21:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2005-11-10 12:35 ` Gleb Natapov
2005-11-10 12:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2005-11-10 12:49 ` Gleb Natapov
2005-11-10 13:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2005-11-10 13:16 ` Gleb Natapov
2005-11-10 13:21 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-10 13:26 ` Gleb Natapov
2005-11-10 13:15 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-10 13:10 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-10 13:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2005-11-10 13:55 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-10 14:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2005-11-14 12:25 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2005-11-14 12:27 ` Gleb Natapov
2005-11-14 12:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2005-11-14 12:40 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-14 14:57 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2005-11-14 15:07 ` Gleb Natapov
2005-11-14 12:41 ` Gleb Natapov
2005-11-14 14:52 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2005-11-14 15:00 ` Gleb Natapov
2005-11-14 20:23 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2005-11-15 9:26 ` Gleb Natapov
2005-11-14 15:58 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-11-14 21:17 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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