The patch titled
ksm: use another miscdevice minor number.
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
ksm-add-ksm-kernel-shared-memory-driver-use-another-miscdevice-minor-number.patch
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Subject: ksm: use another miscdevice minor number.
From: Izik Eidus <ieidus@xxxxxxxxxx>
The old number was registered already by another project.
The new number is #234.
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <device@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/devices.txt | 1 +
include/linux/miscdevice.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN Documentation/devices.txt~ksm-add-ksm-kernel-shared-memory-driver-use-another-miscdevice-minor-number Documentation/devices.txt
--- a/Documentation/devices.txt~ksm-add-ksm-kernel-shared-memory-driver-use-another-miscdevice-minor-number
+++ a/Documentation/devices.txt
@@ -443,6 +443,7 @@ Your cooperation is appreciated.
231 = /dev/snapshot System memory snapshot device
232 = /dev/kvm Kernel-based virtual machine (hardware virtualization extensions)
233 = /dev/kmview View-OS A process with a view
+ 234 = /dev/ksm Dynamic page sharing
240-254 Reserved for local use
255 Reserved for MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR
diff -puN include/linux/miscdevice.h~ksm-add-ksm-kernel-shared-memory-driver-use-another-miscdevice-minor-number include/linux/miscdevice.h
--- a/include/linux/miscdevice.h~ksm-add-ksm-kernel-shared-memory-driver-use-another-miscdevice-minor-number
+++ a/include/linux/miscdevice.h
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
#define HPET_MINOR 228
#define FUSE_MINOR 229
#define KVM_MINOR 232
-#define KSM_MINOR 233
+#define KSM_MINOR 234
#define MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR 255
struct device;
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from ieidus@xxxxxxxxxx are
linux-next.patch
ksm-mmu_notifiers-add-set_pte_at_notify.patch
ksm-add-get_pte-helper-function-fetching-pte-for-va.patch
ksm-add-get_pte-helper-function-fetching-pte-for-va-fix.patch
ksm-add-page_wrprotect-write-protecting-page.patch
ksm-add-replace_page-change-the-page-pte-is-pointing-to.patch
ksm-add-ksm-kernel-shared-memory-driver.patch
ksm-add-ksm-kernel-shared-memory-driver-checkpatch-fixes.patch
ksm-add-ksm-kernel-shared-memory-driver-fix-unsafe-pte-fetching.patch
ksm-add-ksm-kernel-shared-memory-driver-fix.patch
ksm-add-ksm-kernel-shared-memory-driver-limiting-the-num-of-mem-regions-user-can-register-per-fd.patch
ksm-add-ksm-kernel-shared-memory-driver-dont-allow-overlap-memory-addresses-registrations.patch
ksm-add-ksm-kernel-shared-memory-driver-change-the-ksm_remove_memory_region-ioctl.patch
ksm-add-ksm-kernel-shared-memory-driver-change-the-prot-handling-to-use-the-generic-helper-functions.patch
ksm-add-ksm-kernel-shared-memory-driver-use-another-miscdevice-minor-number.patch
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