* Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Ingo, I'm the young UML hacker you met at OLS and who got your UML
> patches sent ;-)
>
> I've been studying your patch (and the whole Linux VM, indeed) in the
> past days, and I have some remarks, about the version of the code in
> 2.6.4-rc2-mm1 (which is the same you sent me) - I've now downloaded
> the version dropped from 2.6.5-mm1, but it doesn't seem to address
> those problems.
>
> Btw, I've now seen why that patch was dropped, but not why it wasn't
> resubmit.
was not resubmitted due to me only having 30 hours available to hack,
per day ;) Feel free to pick the patch up.
> *) with your patch, remapped pages without MAP_INHERIT are IMHO not
> safe across swapout; re-swapping them in will pass through the
> arch-specific fault handler, which will check VMA's protections, and
> fail if the VMA originally had MAP_NONE. Or am I missing something?
not sure, was a long time ago. I have checked swap-safeness, but only
once. UML did work though, but i dont think i ever pushed it into
swapping out its RAM-file.
Ingo
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