Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 27 Nov 2002 11:36:07 -0800 | | From | Andrew Morton <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] page walker bugfix (was: 2.5.49-mm2) |
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Ingo Oeser wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > hi list readers, > > On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 01:11:38AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > .. Some code from Ingo Oeser to start using the expanded and cleaned up > > user pagetable walker code. This affects the st and sg drivers; I'm > > not sure of the testing status of this? > > The testing status is: None, but it compiles. > > The sg-driver maintainer has already said he does some testing > and the author of the previous code in st.c was positive about > using these features. That's why I've choosen these as my "victims".
Yes, Doug Gilbert will help us out here.
> I also found a locking bug in walk_user_pages() in case of OOM or > SIGBUS. Fixed by the attached patch. >
Thanks.
We'll need to be concentrating on the shared pagetable code for a while, and your patch overlaps with that. So I've swapped the applying order (you come second) and I'll probably break your stuff out separately for a while so Dave can generate clean patches.
When mm3 emerges could you please check mm/mmap.c around here:
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