The patch titled
mm: allow pfnmap ->fault()s
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-allow-pfnmap-faults.patch
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Subject: mm: allow pfnmap ->fault()s
From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
Take out an assertion to allow ->fault handlers to service PFNMAP regions.
This is required to reimplement .nopfn handlers with .fault handlers and
subsequently remove nopfn.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/memory.c~mm-allow-pfnmap-faults mm/memory.c
--- a/mm/memory.c~mm-allow-pfnmap-faults
+++ a/mm/memory.c
@@ -2290,8 +2290,6 @@ static int __do_fault(struct mm_struct *
vmf.flags = flags;
vmf.page = NULL;
- BUG_ON(vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP);
-
ret = vma->vm_ops->fault(vma, &vmf);
if (unlikely(ret & (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_NOPAGE)))
return ret;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from npiggin@xxxxxxx are
linux-next.patch
mm-allow-pfnmap-faults.patch
mspec-convert-nopfn-to-fault.patch
reiser4.patch
likeliness-accounting-change-and-cleanup.patch
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