Re: reiser4 breaks vmware

From: Hans Reiser
Date: Tue Dec 23 2003 - 14:23:14 EST


Shawn wrote:

Forgive my line-wraps, but the following (among other do_mmap_pgoff
related snippets) break vmware.

Couple questions out of this:
1. Does anyone care enough to produce a patch for vmware's module?
2. What does this change accomplish for reiser4?

diff -ruN linux-2.6.0-test9/arch/i386/kernel/sys_i386.c
linux-2.6.0-test9-reiser4/arch/i386/kernel/sys_i386.c --- linux-2.6.0-test9/arch/i386/kernel/sys_i386.c Sat Oct 25
22:44:51 2003 +++ linux-2.6.0-test9-reiser4/arch/i386/kernel/sys_i386.c Thu Nov
13 15:39:47 2003 @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ }

down_write(&current->mm->mmap_sem); - error = do_mmap_pgoff(file, addr, len, prot, flags, pgoff); + error = do_mmap_pgoff(current->mm, file, addr, len, prot, flags,
pgoff); up_write(&current->mm->mmap_sem);

if (file)
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thanks Shawn. Nikita will answer (tomorrow).

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Hans


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