Re: [PATCH] x86: endless page faults in mount_block_root for Linux 2.6

Ingo Molnar
2008-04-28T16:47:19Z

* Henry Nestler <Henry.Ne@Arcor.de> wrote:

> An other fix would be to copy the "fs_names+offset" into a new page
> and give a page alignment buffer to do_mount_root. I feel it is better
> to fix the fault handler for all failed addresses, not only the mount?

agreed - but this would be a VFS fix, Al Cc:-ed. I ran into that
property of the mount string copy myself in the past.

(note, your patches were whitespace damaged - i fixed up the x86 fix by
hand - you might want to resend the VFS one via
Documentation/email-clients.txt.)

Ingo