Re: Broken kunmap calls in rc4-mm1.

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Wed Nov 10 2004 - 20:31:33 EST


On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 12:17:05PM +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> That oops in kunmap got me thinking of my recent DEBUG_HIGHMEM
> additions, so I want for a walk through the -mm4 patch, and found plenty
> of instances of people making the same mistake I did... using the struct
> page * in the call to kunmap, rather than the virtual address.
> I guess the best way to handle it is find/notify the respective authors
> of patches in the tree? The problems are in:
> Reiser4 (lots)
> CacheFS (lots)
> afs
> binfmt_elf
> libata_core
> (I'm hoping some of the above people will see this message and save me
> some effort :>)

That only applies to kunmap_atomic(); kunmap()'s argument should be a page.


-- wli
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