Messages in this thread | | | From | Nikita Danilov <> | Date | Wed, 24 Dec 2003 11:09:44 +0300 | Subject | Re: reiser4 breaks vmware |
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Nuno Silva writes: > Hi. > > Shawn wrote: > > Forgive my line-wraps, but the following (among other do_mmap_pgoff > > related snippets) break vmware. > > > > Couple questions out of this: > > 1. Does anyone care enough to produce a patch for vmware's module? > > 2. What does this change accomplish for reiser4? > > > > diff -ruN linux-2.6.0-test9/arch/i386/kernel/sys_i386.c > > linux-2.6.0-test9-reiser4/arch/i386/kernel/sys_i386.c > > --- linux-2.6.0-test9/arch/i386/kernel/sys_i386.c Sat Oct 25 > > 22:44:51 2003 > > +++ linux-2.6.0-test9-reiser4/arch/i386/kernel/sys_i386.c Thu Nov > > 13 15:39:47 2003 > > @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ > > } > > > > down_write(¤t->mm->mmap_sem); > > - error = do_mmap_pgoff(file, addr, len, prot, flags, pgoff); > > + error = do_mmap_pgoff(current->mm, file, addr, len, prot, flags, > > pgoff); > > up_write(¤t->mm->mmap_sem); > > > > if (file) > > I'd say that namesys is using UML (user-mode-linux.sf.net) to develop > raiser4 (smart guys, uml rocks). > > These are probably left overs from UML's SKAS-host patch. If I'm correct > you may try to reverse the SKAS patch from that tree (the patch is > located at UML's site). It won't do any harm, anyway...
Exactly. I included it into core.diff by mistake. Revert it: http://www.namesys.com/snapshots/2003.12.23/broken-out/do_mmap2-fix.diff.patch
> > Regards, > Nuno Silva >
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