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SubjectRe: reiser4 breaks vmware
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(&current->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(&current->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
>

Nikita.
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