Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:02:57 +0200 | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: fix possible cause of a page_mapped BUG | | From | Robert Święcki <> |
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On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Linus Torvalds > <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: >> >> THIS IS A HACKY AND UNTESTED PATCH! > > .. and here is a rather less hacky, but still equally untested patch. > It moves the stack guard page handling into __get_user_pages() itself, > and thus avoids the whole problem. > > This one I could easily see myself committing. Assuming I get some > ack's and testing..
I'm testing currently with the old one, w/o any symptoms of problems by now, but it's not a meaningful period of time. I can try with the new one, leave it over(European)night, and let you know tomorrow.
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