linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] calculation of pgoff in do_linear

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Date:	Thu, 16 Aug 2007 04:52:17 +0200
From:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
To:	Dean Nelson <dcn@....com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] calculation of pgoff in do_linear_fault() uses mixed units

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 12:43:26PM -0500, Dean Nelson wrote:
> The calculation of pgoff in do_linear_fault() should use PAGE_SHIFT and not
> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT since vma->vm_pgoff is in units of PAGE_SIZE and not
> PAGE_CACHE_SIZE. At the moment linux/pagemap.h has PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT defined
> as PAGE_SHIFT, but should that ever change this calculation would break.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@....com>
> 

Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>

> 
> Index: linux-2.6/mm/memory.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/memory.c	2007-08-14 06:42:18.322378070 -0500
> +++ linux-2.6/mm/memory.c	2007-08-15 12:30:51.621604739 -0500
> @@ -2465,7 +2465,7 @@
>  		int write_access, pte_t orig_pte)
>  {
>  	pgoff_t pgoff = (((address & PAGE_MASK)
> -			- vma->vm_start) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT) + vma->vm_pgoff;
> +			- vma->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT) + vma->vm_pgoff;
>  	unsigned int flags = (write_access ? FAULT_FLAG_WRITE : 0);
>  
>  	return __do_fault(mm, vma, address, page_table, pmd, pgoff,
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