On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> At Tue, 2 Sep 2008 11:16:37 +0800,
> Cai, Cliff wrote:
>>
>>
>> > @@ -3419,5 +3426,6 @@ const struct file_operations snd_pcm_f_ops[2] =
>> {
>> > .compat_ioctl = snd_pcm_ioctl_compat,
>> > .mmap = snd_pcm_mmap,
>> > .fasync = snd_pcm_fasync,
>> > + .get_unmapped_area = dummy_get_unmapped_area,
>> > }
>> > };
>>
>> >I don't think adding this dummy get_unmapped_area unconditionally for
>> every driver is good. This overrides the default
>> >mm->get_unmaped_area.
>> But without this dummy function,shared mmap on nommu arch would
>> fail,refer to validate_mmap_request() in mm/nommu.c.
>
> Yes, I know it's needed for nommu. That's why I wrote
> "unconditionally" in the above.
>
>> May be we can add a kernel config item to include or not include this
>> function depending on non-mmu or mmu arch.
>
> Checking CONFIG_MMU may suffice?
>
Right, I post a v2 patch including this checking.
Thanks
-Bryan
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