Re: 2.6.0-test9-mm4 (only) and vmware

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 11:53:54PM +0100, Jose Luis Domingo Lopez wrote:
> I untarred it to /tmp and, as root, I run:
> /tmp/vmware-any-any-update45/runme.pl
> Then the script stopped VMware services, went to recompile both vmnet.o
> and vmmon.o, and then started the services again.
> Launched VMware as usual, tried to boot the same guest operating system
> I used on yesterday's BUG report, and got the messages in the log.
> What I am going to try now is to completely uninstall VMware, install it
> from scratch and apply vmware-any-any-update45.tar.gz and see how it goes 
> (to avoid previously applied patches or manual modifications to VMware
> sources done by me making some difference).
[...]

Okay, try this fix:


diff -prauN mm4-2.6.0-test9-1/mm/memory.c mm4-2.6.0-test9-default-2/mm/memory.c
--- mm4-2.6.0-test9-1/mm/memory.c	2003-11-19 00:07:15.000000000 -0800
+++ mm4-2.6.0-test9-default-2/mm/memory.c	2003-11-19 18:08:49.000000000 -0800
@@ -1424,7 +1424,7 @@ do_no_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct 
 	pte_t entry;
 	struct pte_chain *pte_chain;
 	int sequence = 0;
-	int ret;
+	int ret = VM_FAULT_MINOR;
 
 	if (!vma->vm_ops || !vma->vm_ops->nopage)
 		return do_anonymous_page(mm, vma, page_table,