On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 01:36 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:05:27 +0200 Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > From: Ollie Wild <[email protected]>
> >
> > Remove the arg+env limit of MAX_ARG_PAGES by copying the strings directly
> > from the old mm into the new mm.
> >
> > We create the new mm before the binfmt code runs, and place the new stack
> > at the very top of the address space. Once the binfmt code runs and figures
> > out where the stack should be, we move it downwards.
> >
> > It is a bit peculiar in that we have one task with two mm's, one of which is
> > inactive.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > + flush_cache_page(bprm->vma, kpos,
> > + page_to_pfn(kmapped_page));
Bah, and my frv cross build bums out on an unrelated change,..
I'll see if I can get a noMMU arch building, in the mean time, would you
try this:
---
Since no-MMU doesn't do the fancy inactive mm access there is no need to
flush cache.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
---
Index: linux-2.6-2/fs/exec.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-2.orig/fs/exec.c 2007-06-05 16:48:52.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6-2/fs/exec.c 2007-06-06 10:49:19.000000000 +0200
@@ -428,8 +428,10 @@ static int copy_strings(int argc, char _
kmapped_page = page;
kaddr = kmap(kmapped_page);
kpos = pos & PAGE_MASK;
+#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
flush_cache_page(bprm->vma, kpos,
page_to_pfn(kmapped_page));
+#endif
}
if (copy_from_user(kaddr+offset, str, bytes_to_copy)) {
ret = -EFAULT;
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