David S. Miller wrote:
From: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 19:37:23 +0000 (GMT)
Remove the BUG_ON(vma->vm_flags & VM_UNPAGED) from do_wp_page, and let
it do Copy-On-Write without touching the VM_UNPAGED's page counts - but
this is incomplete, because the anonymous page it inserts will itself
need to be handled, here and in other functions - next patch.
We still don't copy the page if the pfn is invalid, because the
copy_user_highpage interface does not allow it. But that's not been
a problem in the past: can be added in later if the need arises.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Do we even need this? It is a very serious question...
I think for 2.6.15, yes. We [read: I :(] was too hasty in removing
this completely. However I think it would not be unresonable to spit
out a warning, and remove it in 2.6.??
Looks like Hugh's done a very good job of this, however keeping
complexity down is always a good thing.
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