Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932201AbVKBCJ1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2005 21:09:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932202AbVKBCJ0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2005 21:09:26 -0500 Received: from smtp206.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.129.96]:7311 "HELO smtp206.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932201AbVKBCJ0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Nov 2005 21:09:26 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=TFsGaqU3w1k+HMqvHYHssguwilA0v507vugJSNK0aToz6XRehCy+AVm+eglkZrUTHIVD0akuCSL1JtjYJCLLPXmm8eZ0qqqgmI13PUQZu0lo+pC73zxYeGCc5C4M3SMDeyQ+81fw2SBL5ycie30QnwrAPnEXSY+bBVzVdpwRhyU= ; Message-ID: <43681FDC.4060202@yahoo.com.au> Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 13:09:32 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051007 Debian/1.7.12-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Petr Vandrovec CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Nick's core remove PageReserved broke vmware... References: <4367C25B.7010300@vc.cvut.cz> <4368097A.1080601@yahoo.com.au> <4368139A.30701@vc.cvut.cz> In-Reply-To: <4368139A.30701@vc.cvut.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1099 Lines: 34 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 -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com - 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/