Re: Fix crash when ptrace poking hugepage areas

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 04:41:36PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> This patch fixes the bug by only calling set_page_dirty() from
> access_process_vm() if the page is not a compound page.  We already
> use a similar fix in bio_set_pages_dirty() for the case of direct io
> to hugepages.
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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