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    [PATCH] unpaged: get_user_pages VM_RESERVED · ed5297a9
    Hugh Dickins authored
    
    
    The PageReserved removal in 2.6.15-rc1 prohibited get_user_pages on the areas
    flagged VM_RESERVED in place of PageReserved.  That is correct in theory - we
    ought not to interfere with struct pages in such a reserved area; but in
    practice it broke BTTV for one.
    
    So revert to prohibiting only on VM_IO: if someone gets into trouble with
    get_user_pages on VM_RESERVED, it'll just be a "don't do that".
    
    You can argue that videobuf_mmap_mapper shouldn't set VM_RESERVED in the first
    place, but now's not the time for breaking drivers without notice.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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