Re: 2.4.19pre8aa1 & vm-34: unresolved kmap_pagetable

From: Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal@eyal.emu.id.au)
Date: Sat May 04 2002 - 08:41:25 EST


Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 11:30:31AM +1000, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> > Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > >
> > > Full patchkit:
> > > http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.19pre8aa1.gz
> >
> > This is a new symbol introduced in -aa1. It ends up in drivers through
> > new header definitions rather than by direct use.
> >
> > Should be exported?
>
> You should #include <linux/highmem.h> in those drivers .c files, then it
> will compile, but that's not the right fix, you'd need to add the
> pte_kunmap too or it would deadlock with highmem. The right fix is to
> convert those drivers to vmalloc_to_page, then they will work flawlessy.

Well, this may be a problem for NVdriver (a mostly binary only driver)
which I use.

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Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal@eyal.emu.id.au) <http://samba.org/eyal/>
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