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From: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: "Nick Piggin" <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] revoke: break cow for private mappings
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:09:41 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84144f020703280309i4e47f9b8w92a369aa7bc16ece@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <460A2184.8060207@yahoo.com.au>

On 3/28/07, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> > +             ret = get_user_pages(tsk, tsk->mm, vma->vm_start,
> > +                                  vma->vm_end-vma->vm_start, 1, 1, NULL,
> > +                                  NULL);
>
> get_user_pages length argument is in # of pages, rather than address range,
> I think. vma_pages is what you want?

Yes.

On 3/28/07, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> > +     up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
>
> I think you just need down_read of mmap_sem here?

Indeed. Thanks Nick.

                                  Pekka

      reply	other threads:[~2007-03-28 10:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-27  7:14 Pekka J Enberg
2007-03-28  8:04 ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-28 10:09   ` Pekka Enberg [this message]

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