Re: Lockless/Get_User_Pages_Fast causes Xorg 1.4.99.* to lock

From: Carsten Otte
Date: Mon Jul 07 2008 - 11:44:22 EST


Nick Piggin wrote:
I think we need a similar fix for s390 too. If so, then it really should
get into 2.6.26, but this late in the release, I hope an s390 maintainer
might be able to test and verify the fix?
I've done my best to combine mprotect, mmap and munmap a MAP_PRIVATE mapping on a xip file system. The system runs stable with and without this patch. Could someone please enlighten me on how to reproduce the problem so that I can verify the fix?
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