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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@linuxmail.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Broken kunmap calls in rc4-mm1.
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:29:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041111012919.GD3217@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1100135825.7402.32.camel@desktop.cunninghams>

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 12:17:05PM +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> That oops in kunmap got me thinking of my recent DEBUG_HIGHMEM
> additions, so I want for a walk through the -mm4 patch, and found plenty
> of instances of people making the same mistake I did... using the struct
> page * in the call to kunmap, rather than the virtual address.
> I guess the best way to handle it is find/notify the respective authors
> of patches in the tree? The problems are in:
> Reiser4 (lots)
> CacheFS (lots)
> afs
> binfmt_elf
> libata_core
> (I'm hoping some of the above people will see this message and save me
> some effort :>)

That only applies to kunmap_atomic(); kunmap()'s argument should be a page.


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-11  1:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-11  1:17 Broken kunmap calls in rc4-mm1 Nigel Cunningham
2004-11-11  1:29 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-11-11  1:42   ` Nigel Cunningham
2004-11-11  2:59     ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-11  7:45       ` Jens Axboe
2004-11-11  7:50         ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-11 19:22   ` Pavel Machek
2004-11-11  1:34 ` Chris Wright

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