This patch fixes the troubles generated by msync on /dev/fb0 or any
other device driver that exports reserved memory to userspace via shared
mapping.
--- 2.4.5pre1aa3/mm/filemap.c.~1~ Fri May 11 02:08:28 2001
+++ 2.4.5pre1aa3/mm/filemap.c Mon May 14 18:48:59 2001
@@ -1808,10 +1808,12 @@
{
pte_t pte = *ptep;
- if (pte_present(pte) && ptep_test_and_clear_dirty(ptep)) {
+ if (pte_present(pte)) {
struct page *page = pte_page(pte);
- flush_tlb_page(vma, address);
- set_page_dirty(page);
+ if (VALID_PAGE(page) && !PageReserved(page) && ptep_test_and_clear_dirty(ptep)) {
+ flush_tlb_page(vma, address);
+ set_page_dirty(page);
+ }
}
return 0;
}
Andrea
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