Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] uml: fix pte_mkread setting page read/write

2007-02-19 Thread Blaisorblade
On Saturday 10 February 2007 18:27, Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso wrote: > Fix the fact that pte_mkread set _PAGE_RW instead of _PAGE_USER (the logic > is copied from i386 in most place, so it is really as bad as you're > thinking). > > Thus currently page tables are more permissive than they shou

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] uml: fix pte_mkread setting page read/write

2007-02-19 Thread Jeff Dike
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 06:34:42PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: > Jeff, no answer to this yet? I've just checked and it's not on the patchset > page either. I already had it in my -mm patchset, minus any attribution, so I guess I cooked it up myself. I've been running with it for a long time, so i

Re: [uml-devel] Possible hostfs uml kernel data corruption with missing host directory (fc6, 2.6.20-rc5-git3 on opteron)

2007-02-19 Thread Blaisorblade
On Thursday 15 February 2007 05:42, Blaisorblade wrote: > On Thursday 15 February 2007 04:36, Blaisorblade wrote: > > On Friday 26 January 2007 16:13, Jeff Dike wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 04:07:05AM -0500, William Stearns wrote: > > > > After bisecting the difference between the t

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] uml: fix pte_mkread setting page read/write

2007-02-19 Thread Blaisorblade
On Monday 19 February 2007 20:52, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 06:34:42PM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: > > Jeff, no answer to this yet? I've just checked and it's not on the > > patchset page either. > I already had it in my -mm patchset, minus any attribution, so I guess > I cooked it

Re: [uml-devel] [UML] fix crash in block layer

2007-02-19 Thread Blaisorblade
On Friday 16 February 2007 19:40, Jeff Dike wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 12:02:08PM -0500, Jason Lunz wrote: > > I agree - I have only a vague idea about what uml_reserved means. > > This is ancient code - after a quick look through it, I think what is > happening is this: > Early in boot