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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:25:00 +0100 From: Hoang-Nam Nguyen <hnguyen@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> To: Adam Litke <agl@...ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, Ken Chen <kenchen@...gle.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] hugetlb: follow_hugetlb_page for write access On Wednesday 07 November 2007 20:51, Adam Litke wrote: > > When calling get_user_pages(), a write flag is passed in by the caller to > indicate if write access is required on the faulted-in pages. Currently, > follow_hugetlb_page() ignores this flag and always faults pages for > read-only access. This can cause data corruption because a device driver > that calls get_user_pages() with write set will not expect COW faults to > occur on the returned pages. > > This patch passes the write flag down to follow_hugetlb_page() and makes > sure hugetlb_fault() is called with the right write_access parameter. > > Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@...ibm.com> Apologize for this late response. Tested on 2.6.23 with ehca and mthca. It works like a charm for me. Thanks! Nam - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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