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On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 11:45:18AM -0700, you [Andrew Morton] wrote: > > > > --8<----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > vmmon: Your kernel is br0ken. get_user_pages(current, current->mm, b7dd1000, 1, 1, 0, &page, NULL) returned -14. > > vmmon: I'll try accessing page tables directly, but you should know that your > > vmmon: kernel is br0ken and you should uninstall all additional patches you vmmon: have installed! > > vmmon: FYI, copy_from_user(b7dd1000) returns 0 (if not 0 maybe your kernel is not br0ken) > > --8<----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > warning, but vmware appears to work now (well apart from altgr not working, > > but that has been broken since 2.4 -> 2.6 transition.) > > > > I'm still not 100% which of the patches causes that get_user_pages() > > warning. > > If you could work that out sometime, it would help. * 2.6.8.1-mm2 minus just dev-mem-restriction-patch.patch fixes the "cannot allocate memory" problem. * 2.6.8.1-mm2 minus dev-mem-restriction-patch.patch and get_user_pages-handle-VM_IO.patch fixes both the "cannot allocate memory" and "get_user_pages() returns -EFAULT" problems. "Cannot allocate memory" may be specific to older vmware 3.2.0 since it hasn't been reported by anyone else (even though the patch is present in Fedora). -- v -- v@iki.fi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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