Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:29:35 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.26-rc7 |
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On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Jeff Chua wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Linus Torvalds > <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > Another week, another -rc. > > Linus Torvalds (4): > > Reinstate ZERO_PAGE optimization in 'get_user_pages()' and fix XIP > > [89f5b7da2a6bad2e84670422ab8192382a5aeb9f] > > This broke vmware 6.0.4.
Hmm. Can you see which part of it broke? Was it the "fix XIP" part ot the ZERO_PAGE part? The easiest way to test is to apply this patch, and see (it just disables the XIP part of fix)
Linus --- mm/memory.c | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index 9aefaae..9056132 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -1023,8 +1023,12 @@ out: return page; bad_page: +#if 0 pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl); return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT); +#else + return NULL; +#endif no_page: pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
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