Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267291AbUI0T5n (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:57:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267298AbUI0T5m (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:57:42 -0400 Received: from pauli.thundrix.ch ([213.239.201.101]:24554 "EHLO pauli.thundrix.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267291AbUI0T5Z (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:57:25 -0400 Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 21:55:10 +0200 From: Tonnerre To: Christoph Hellwig , Antony Suter , List LKML , torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] __VMALLOC_RESERVE export Message-ID: <20040927195510.GD17487@thundrix.ch> References: <1096304623.9430.8.camel@hikaru.lan> <20040927181229.A25704@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="jCrbxBqMcLqd4mOl" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040927181229.A25704@infradead.org> X-GPG-KeyID: 0x8BE1C38D X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1AB0 9AD6 D0C8 B9D5 C5C9 9C2A FF86 CBEE 8BE1 C38D X-GPG-KeyURL: http://users.thundrix.ch/~tonnerre/tonnerre.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040803i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1385 Lines: 44 --jCrbxBqMcLqd4mOl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Salut, On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 06:12:29PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 03:03:43AM +1000, Antony Suter wrote: > > __VMALLOC_RESERVE itself is not exported but is used by something that > > is. This patch is against 2.6.9-rc2-bk11 > >=20 > > This is required by the nvidia binary driver 1.0.6111 >=20 > And the driver does absolutely nasty things it shouldn't do. This is an > implementation detail that absolutely should not be exported. NVidia isn't the only user... Every kernel module that uses just anything that uses the old __VMALLOC_RESERVE define was broken without this patch. Tonnerre --jCrbxBqMcLqd4mOl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.9.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBWHAd/4bL7ovhw40RAgjkAJ9CSjV5JHWdSJlBchkgkUVEEeFB/wCgqNhW uB1LJOxGK74XsftfyuJrxcw= =XUlI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jCrbxBqMcLqd4mOl-- - 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/