Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] m68k: mm: Remove check for VM_IO to fix deferred I/O | From | Michael Schmitz <> | Date | Sun, 30 Jan 2022 19:57:34 +1300 |
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Hi Geert,
Am 30.01.2022 um 13:32 schrieb Michael Schmitz: > Hi Geert, > > testing this patch on my Falcon 030, I'm seeing a weird error checking > and mounting the root filesystem (pata-falcon). The system appears to > sit idle, never completing the journal recovery and mount. Still > investigating that.
Belay that - not related to your patch, must be some other regression since v5.16 that I'm seeing there.
Just ignore the noise ...
Cheers,
Michael
> Can't see how that would be caused by your patch, just saying I could > not yet test it. > > Cheers, > > Michael > > > Am 29.01.2022 um 06:30 schrieb Geert Uytterhoeven: >> When an application accesses a mapped frame buffer backed by deferred >> I/O, it receives a segmentation fault. Fix this by removing the check >> for VM_IO in do_page_fault(). >> >> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> >> --- >> This check was never present in a fault handler on any other >> architecture than m68k. >> Some digging revealed that it was added in v2.1.106, but I couldn't find >> an email with a patch adding it. That same kernel version extended the >> use of the hwreg_present() helper to HP9000/300, so the check might have >> been needed there, perhaps only during development? >> The Atari kernel relies heavily on hwreg_present() (both the success and >> failure cases), and these still work, at least on ARAnyM. >> --- >> arch/m68k/mm/fault.c | 2 -- >> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/arch/m68k/mm/fault.c b/arch/m68k/mm/fault.c >> index 1493cf5eac1e7a39..71aa9f6315dc8028 100644 >> --- a/arch/m68k/mm/fault.c >> +++ b/arch/m68k/mm/fault.c >> @@ -93,8 +93,6 @@ int do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned >> long address, >> vma = find_vma(mm, address); >> if (!vma) >> goto map_err; >> - if (vma->vm_flags & VM_IO) >> - goto acc_err; >> if (vma->vm_start <= address) >> goto good_area; >> if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_GROWSDOWN)) >>
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