On Wednesday 07 November 2007 20:51, Adam Litke wrote: > > When calling get_user_pages(), a write flag is passed in by the caller to > indicate if write access is required on the faulted-in pages. Currently, > follow_hugetlb_page() ignores this flag and always faults pages for > read-only access. This can cause data corruption because a device driver > that calls get_user_pages() with write set will not expect COW faults to > occur on the returned pages. > > This patch passes the write flag down to follow_hugetlb_page() and makes > sure hugetlb_fault() is called with the right write_access parameter. > > Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Apologize for this late response. Tested on 2.6.23 with ehca and mthca. It works like a charm for me. Thanks! Nam
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