From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from hancock.sc.steeleye.com (nat9.steeleye.com [65.114.3.137]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B67C492F for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2003 17:01:12 -0600 (MDT) Received: from mulgrave-w.il.steeleye.com (il-ppp.sc.steeleye.com [172.17.6.240]) by hancock.sc.steeleye.com (8.11.6/linuxconf) with ESMTP id h7NN11I15624; Sat, 23 Aug 2003 19:01:01 -0400 Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Re: Problems with kernel mmap (failing tst-mmap-eofsync in glibc on parisc) From: James Bottomley To: "David S. Miller" Cc: hugh@veritas.com, willy@debian.org, Linux Kernel , PARISC list , drepper@redhat.com In-Reply-To: <20030823155127.3cd7b013.davem@redhat.com> References: <20030822110144.5f7b83c5.davem@redhat.com> <20030822113106.0503a665.davem@redhat.com> <1061578568.2053.313.camel@mulgrave> <20030822121955.619a14eb.davem@redhat.com> <1061591255.1784.636.camel@mulgrave> <20030822154100.06314c8e.davem@redhat.com> <1061600974.2090.809.camel@mulgrave> <20030823144330.5ddab065.davem@redhat.com> <1061677283.1992.471.camel@mulgrave> <20030823155127.3cd7b013.davem@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: 23 Aug 2003 18:01:00 -0500 Message-Id: <1061679662.1785.514.camel@mulgrave> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 17:51, David S. Miller wrote: > Ok. Let me think about this a bit more. > > The safest solution for parisc, meanwhile, would be to walk the > non-shared mmap list checking for any instance of the VM_MAYSHARE bit > being set. Right, that's how I plan to fix this problem in parisc. We also need the VM_MAYSHARE flag to propagate across remappings, which was the general kernel fix I sent some emails back. James