Re: [PATCH][2.6-mm] Fix 4G/4G X11/vm86 oops

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:

> The 4G/4G page fault handling path doesn't appear to handle faults 
> happening whilst in vm86. The regs->xcs != __USER_CS so it confused the in 
> kernel test.

Perhaps this would be more desirable?

Index: linux-2.6.0-test9-mm3/arch/i386/mm/fault.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /build/cvsroot/linux-2.6.0-test9-mm3/arch/i386/mm/fault.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
diff -u -p -B -r1.1.1.1 fault.c
--- linux-2.6.0-test9-mm3/arch/i386/mm/fault.c	13 Nov 2003 08:07:17 -0000	1.1.1.1
+++ linux-2.6.0-test9-mm3/arch/i386/mm/fault.c	15 Nov 2003 19:40:17 -0000
@@ -264,7 +264,9 @@ asmlinkage void do_page_fault(struct pt_
 		if (error_code & 3)
 			goto bad_area_nosemaphore;
 
- 		goto vmalloc_fault;
+		/* If it's vm86 fall through */
+		if (!(regs->eflags & VM_MASK))
+			goto vmalloc_fault;
 	}
 #else
 	if (unlikely(address >= TASK_SIZE)) { 
-
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