On Saturday 03 December 2005 11:03, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Blaisorblade wrote:
> > Indeed, the condition to test (and to possibly BUG_ON/pte_ERROR) is that
> > ->populate must exist for the sys_remap_file_pages call to work.
>
> I'm puzzled.
Don't worry, you're right.
> Both filemap_populate and shmem_populate
> now test VM_NONLINEAR before calling install_file_pte.
Uff, sorry, you're right - I hadn't seen this change (not mentioned in the
Changelog, and I'm in shortness of time currently).
I haven't had the time to look even at the whole commit I referred to... (this
summer I had studied the code for a whole month!).
--
Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!".
Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894)
http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade
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