From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Nick's core remove PageReserved broke vmware...
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 13:09:32 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43681FDC.4060202@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4368139A.30701@vc.cvut.cz>
Petr Vandrovec wrote:
>
> But get_user_pages() was not invoked by 'the core vm'. I invoked it,
> from my
> module... same one which populated this VMA before.
>
OK, sure in this case it should be fine because you know what you're
doing. In the case where someone submits a /dev/mem mapping for direct
IO, things would be different.
> So I've made this change... Test probably could be for 2.6.4 <= x <=
> 2.6.5 to rule out all buggy kernels, but I'll probably leave it this way
> unless there is some good reason to not set VM_RESERVED on these older
> kernels.
>
OK, if that is all that is required to fix it for you, then that's
a good result! Thanks for the mail and be sure to let us know if you
run into any other problems.
Nick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-02 2:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-01 19:30 Nick's core remove PageReserved broke vmware Petr Vandrovec
2005-11-02 0:34 ` Nick Piggin
2005-11-02 1:17 ` Petr Vandrovec
2005-11-02 2:09 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
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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