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author | Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> | 2005-11-22 05:32:18 (GMT) |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-11-22 17:13:42 (GMT) |
commit | ee498ed730283e9cdfc8913f12b90a2246f1a8cc (patch) | |
tree | 797966a8454e40fdf1879bacea510ad8c55a91a2 /Documentation/ia64 | |
parent | 920fc356f58d0e455bdfa53451f1c58eb211a846 (diff) | |
download | linux-ee498ed730283e9cdfc8913f12b90a2246f1a8cc.tar.xz |
[PATCH] unpaged: anon in VM_UNPAGED
copy_one_pte needs to copy the anonymous COWed pages in a VM_UNPAGED area,
zap_pte_range needs to free them, do_wp_page needs to COW them: just like
ordinary pages, not like the unpaged.
But recognizing them is a little subtle: because PageReserved is no longer a
condition for remap_pfn_range, we can now mmap all of /dev/mem (whether the
distro permits, and whether it's advisable on this or that architecture, is
another matter). So if we can see a PageAnon, it may not be ours to mess with
(or may be ours from elsewhere in the address space). I suspect there's an
entertaining insoluble self-referential problem here, but the page_is_anon
function does a good practical job, and MAP_PRIVATE PROT_WRITE VM_UNPAGED will
always be an odd choice.
In updating the comment on page_address_in_vma, noticed a potential NULL
dereference, in a path we don't actually take, but fixed it.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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