linux-kernel - Re: vm_ops.page_mkwrite() fails with vmalloc on 2.6.23

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Date:	Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:01:42 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, stefani@...bold.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: vm_ops.page_mkwrite() fails with vmalloc on 2.6.23

On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 01:17 -0700, Jaya Kumar wrote:
> On 10/29/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:40:57 +0200 Stefani Seibold <stefani@...bold.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > The problem original occurs with the fb_defio driver (driver/video/fb_defio.c).
> > > This driver use the vm_ops.page_mkwrite() handler for tracking the modified pages,
> > > which will be in an extra thread handled, to perform the IO and clean and
> > > write protect all pages with page_clean().
> > >

> An aside, I just tested that deferred IO works fine on 2.6.22.10/pxa255.
> 
> I understood from the thread that PeterZ is looking into page_mkclean
> changes which I guess went into 2.6.23. I'm also happy to help in any
> way if the way we're doing fb_defio needs to change.

OK, seems I can't read. Or at least, I missed a large part of the
problem.

page_mkclean() hasn't changed, it was ->page_mkwrite() that changed. And
looking at the fb_defio code, I'm not sure I understand how its
page_mkclean() use could ever have worked.

The proposed patch [1] only fixes the issue of ->page_mkwrite() on
vmalloc()'ed memory. Not page_mkclean(), and that has never worked from
what I can make of it.

Jaya, could you shed some light on this? I presume you had your display
working.

[1] which I will clean up and resend after this issue is cleared up -
and preferably tested by someone who has this hardware.

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