Re: [PATCH 2/2] revoke: break cow for private mappings

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Wed Mar 28 2007 - 06:09:58 EST


On 3/28/07, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> + ret = get_user_pages(tsk, tsk->mm, vma->vm_start,
> + vma->vm_end-vma->vm_start, 1, 1, NULL,
> + NULL);

get_user_pages length argument is in # of pages, rather than address range,
I think. vma_pages is what you want?

Yes.

On 3/28/07, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> + up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);

I think you just need down_read of mmap_sem here?

Indeed. Thanks Nick.

Pekka
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