On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:27:13PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:45:33 +0400
> Alexey Dobriyan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > maps2-add-proc-pid-pagemap-interface.patch
> >
> > Ohhh, you're repeating december mincore() bug
> > 2f77d107050abc14bc393b34bdb7b91cf670c250
> >
> > pagemap_read() takes ->mmap_sem for reading
> > walk_page_range
> > pagemap_pte_range
> > add_to_pagemap
> > flush_pagemap
> > copy_to_user
>
> argh. I think it's always a bug to run uaccess functions while holding
> mmap_sem, isn't it?
Yep, looks that way.
> I'll see if I can get something like this working as a -mm-only thing:
I was wondering if there was a sensible way to do this. This looks
pretty good.
> + no+_mmap_sem(); \
Except for this bit. Maybe put it in the same config bucket as might_sleep?
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