Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc4] fix get_user_pages bug

[Alexander Nyberg]

On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 09:12:37AM -0700 Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > 
> > Oh, it gets rid of the -1 for VM_FAULT_OOM. Doesn't seem like there
> > is a good reason for it, but might that break out of tree drivers?
> 
> Ok, I applied this because it was reasonably pretty and I liked the 
> approach. It seems buggy, though, since it was using "switch ()" to test 
> the bits (wrongly, afaik), and I'm going to apply the appended on top of 
> it. Holler quickly if you disagreee..
> 

x86_64 had hardcoded the VM_ numbers so it broke down when the numbers
were changed.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@xxxxxxxxx>

Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c	2005-07-31 18:10:20.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c	2005-08-04 16:04:59.000000000 +0200
@@ -439,13 +439,13 @@
 	 * the fault.
 	 */
 	switch (handle_mm_fault(mm, vma, address, write)) {
-	case 1:
+	case VM_FAULT_MINOR:
 		tsk->min_flt++;
 		break;
-	case 2:
+	case VM_FAULT_MAJOR:
 		tsk->maj_flt++;
 		break;
-	case 0:
+	case VM_FAULT_SIGBUS:
 		goto do_sigbus;
 	default:
 		goto out_of_memory;
-
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