Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc4] fix get_user_pages bug

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Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Nick Piggin <[email protected]> wrote:

Feedback please, anyone.


it looks good to me, but wouldnt it be simpler (in terms of patch and architecture impact) to always retry the follow_page() in get_user_pages(), in case of a minor fault? The sequence of minor faults

I believe this can break some things. Hugh posted an example
in his recent post to linux-mm (ptrace setting a breakpoint
in read-only text). I think?

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