There is no 'struct page' for the source of this data. We have a kernel address for it; that's all.
-----Original Message----- From: Leonid Yegoshin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2015 10:40 AM To: Guenter Roeck; Ralf Baechle Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; Atsushi Nemoto; Wilcox, Matthew R Subject: Re: mips: Re-introduce copy_user_page On 01/30/2015 09:23 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote: > Commit bcd022801ee5 ("MIPS: Fix COW D-cache aliasing on fork") replaced > the inline function copy_user_page for mips with an external reference, > but neglected to introduce the actual non-inline function. Restore it. > > Fixes: bcd022801ee5 ("MIPS: Fix COW D-cache aliasing on fork") > Fixes: 4927b7d77c00 ("dax,ext2: replace the XIP page fault handler with the > DAX page fault handler") > Cc: Atsushi Nemoto <[email protected]> > Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]> > Why do you use copy_user_page? It doesn't work properly in HIGHMEM environment and it is excluded from MIPS because of that, I believe. You should use copy_user_highpage() for user pages. - Leonid. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
