Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 02 Nov 2005 13:09:32 +1100 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: Nick's core remove PageReserved broke vmware... |
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Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> > But get_user_pages() was not invoked by 'the core vm'. I invoked it, > from my > module... same one which populated this VMA before. >
OK, sure in this case it should be fine because you know what you're doing. In the case where someone submits a /dev/mem mapping for direct IO, things would be different.
> So I've made this change... Test probably could be for 2.6.4 <= x <= > 2.6.5 to rule out all buggy kernels, but I'll probably leave it this way > unless there is some good reason to not set VM_RESERVED on these older > kernels. >
OK, if that is all that is required to fix it for you, then that's a good result! Thanks for the mail and be sure to let us know if you run into any other problems.
Nick
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