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wli@holomorphy.com wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 01:34:02AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.8.1/2.6.8.1-mm4/> > - Added the kexec code. Again. This was in -mm a year or so ago but didn't > > make it. > > - This kernel has an x86 patch which alters the copy_*_user() functions so > > they will return -EFAULT on a fault rather than the number of bytes which > > remain to be copied. This is a bit of an experiment, because this seems to > > be the preferred API for those functions. It's a see-what-breaks thing. > > And things will break. If weird behaviour is observed, please revert > > usercopy-return-EFAULT.patch and send a report. > > task_vsize() doesn't need mm->mmap_sem for the CONFIG_MMU case; I'd prefer it if you (and everyone else) could give a meaningful English-language Subject: to patches, please. A well-chosen patch Subject: becomes a sort of globally-unique key by which the patch is tracked - I munge it into a patch filename and it propagates all the way into bitkeeper. It can be used for searching email folders, googling, inter-developer discussion, etc, etc. Thanks. - 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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