linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.26-rc7

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Date:	Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:18:09 +0800
From:	"Jeff Chua" <jeff.chua.linux@...il.com>
To:	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	ecollins@...are.com,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	support@...are.com
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.26-rc7

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:29 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> Hmm. Can you see which part of it broke? Was it the "fix XIP" part ot the
> ZERO_PAGE part? The easiest way to test is to apply this patch, and see
> (it just disables the XIP part of fix)

This one doesn't fix it.

Thanks,
Jeff.

> ---
>  mm/memory.c |    4 ++++
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index 9aefaae..9056132 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -1023,8 +1023,12 @@ out:
>        return page;
>
>  bad_page:
> +#if 0
>        pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
>        return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT);
> +#else
> +       return NULL;
> +#endif
>
>  no_page:
>        pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
>
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