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SubjectRe: Linux 2.6.26-rc7


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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