Allow CONFIG_DEBUG_VM to switch off the prefaulting logic, to simulate the difficult race where the page may be unmapped before calling copy_from_user. Makes the race much easier to hit. This is useful for demonstration and testing purposes, but is removed in a subsequent patch. Cc: Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linux Filesystems <linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> mm/filemap.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6/mm/filemap.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/filemap.c +++ linux-2.6/mm/filemap.c @@ -1984,6 +1984,7 @@ generic_file_buffered_write(struct kiocb if (maxlen > bytes) maxlen = bytes; +#ifndef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM /* * Bring in the user page that we will copy from _first_. * Otherwise there's a nasty deadlock on copying from the @@ -1991,6 +1992,7 @@ generic_file_buffered_write(struct kiocb * up-to-date. */ fault_in_pages_readable(buf, maxlen); +#endif page = __grab_cache_page(mapping,index,&cached_page,&lru_pvec); if (!page) { -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html