[Ocfs2-devel] [-mm PATCH] ocfs2: Shared writeable mmap

[Mark Fasheh]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 05:07:36PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>   The thing is that get_user_pages(.write=1, .force=1) can generate COW
>   hits on read-only shared mappings, this patch traps those as mkpage_write
>   candidates and fails to handle them the old way.
Ahh ok. Too bad this doesn't seem like it could be causing my bug :( Can I
ask what the old way of handling this is?

> It would be better to get a fix against the existing
> add-page_mkwrite-vm_operations-method.patch so at least we can get that
> merged up.  But nobody seems to be offering that.
Were I capable, I'd certainly offer up a patch :/ Definitely though, I agree
that sorting this out first seems like a reasonable way to go.
	--Mark

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Mark Fasheh
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