Re: reiser4 breaks vmware

[Hans Reiser]

Shawn wrote:

> Forgive my line-wraps, but the following (among other do_mmap_pgoff
> related snippets) break vmware.
>
> Couple questions out of this:
> 1. Does anyone care enough to produce a patch for vmware's module?
> 2. What does this change accomplish for reiser4?
>
> diff -ruN linux-2.6.0-test9/arch/i386/kernel/sys_i386.c
> linux-2.6.0-test9-reiser4/arch/i386/kernel/sys_i386.c 
> --- linux-2.6.0-test9/arch/i386/kernel/sys_i386.c       Sat Oct 25
> 22:44:51 2003 
> +++ linux-2.6.0-test9-reiser4/arch/i386/kernel/sys_i386.c       Thu Nov
> 13 15:39:47 2003 
> @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ 
>        } 
>
>        down_write(&current->mm->mmap_sem); 
> -       error = do_mmap_pgoff(file, addr, len, prot, flags, pgoff); 
> +       error = do_mmap_pgoff(current->mm, file, addr, len, prot, flags,
> pgoff); 
>        up_write(&current->mm->mmap_sem); 
>
>        if (file)
> -
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thanks Shawn.  Nikita will answer (tomorrow).

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Hans


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