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From: "Daniel Glöckner" <daniel-gl@gmx.net>
To: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, gerg@snapgear.com,
	dhowells@redhat.com, lethal@linux-sh.org, gerg@uclinux.org,
	walken@google.com, uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org,
	geert@linux-m68k.org
Subject: [PATCH] nommu: reimplement remap_pfn_range() to simply return 0
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:59:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110620065907.GA29075@minime.bse> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1308547333-27413-1-git-send-email-lliubbo@gmail.com>

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 01:22:13PM +0800, Bob Liu wrote:
> Function remap_pfn_range() means map physical address pfn<<PAGE_SHIFT to
> user addr.
> 
> For nommu arch it's implemented by vma->vm_start = pfn << PAGE_SHIFT which is
> wrong acroding the original meaning of this function.
> 
> Some driver developer using remap_pfn_range() with correct parameter will get
> unexpected result because vm_start is changed.
> 
> It should be implementd just like addr = pfn << PAGE_SHIFT which is meanless
> on nommu arch, so this patch just make it simply return 0.

I'd return -EINVAL if addr != pfn << PAGE_SHIFT.
And I can imagine architectures wanting to do something with the prot flags.

  Daniel

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-20  6:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-20  5:22 [PATCH] nommu: reimplement remap_pfn_range() to simply return 0 Bob Liu
2011-06-20  6:59 ` Daniel Glöckner [this message]
2011-06-20  7:51   ` Bob Liu
2011-06-20 12:04   ` [uclinux-dist-devel] " Mike Frysinger

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