Re: 2.6.5-rc1-aa3

[Martin J. Bligh]

--Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@xxxxxxx> wrote (on Sunday, March 21, 2004 14:26:30 +0100):

> On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 10:17:16PM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>> > Fixed the sigbus in nopage and improved the page_t layout per Hugh's
>> > suggestion. BUG() with discontigmem disabled if somebody returns non-ram
>> > via do_no_page, that cannot work right on numa anyways.
>> 
>> OK, well it doesn't oops any more. But sshd still dies as soon as it starts,
>> so accessing the box is tricky ;-) And now I have no obvious diagnostics
>> either ...
> 
> Jens sent me the perfect strace log, after his help it has not been
> difficult to spot the bug. this incremental should fix it
> MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS isn't very common and my userspace never
> triggered it. I placed the pgoff anon setting in the path of the shared
> memory too, that generated the sigbus. Leaving the setting only in the
> MAP_PRIVATE should fix it, the anonymous memory is only MAP_PRIVATE.
> 
> patch is untested at the moment, as soon as I get confirmation I'll
> upload an update.

Yup, that fixes mine up too - runs fine now.

M.

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