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authorLinus Torvalds2018-08-01 09:57:50 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds2018-08-01 09:57:50 -0700
commitebad825cdd4e6b327eaf0dd72439408957049cea (patch)
tree1968af65b9f31924d271db19ade63809fed105ec /README
parent37b71411b75c6a6c918e3102097417fdfed667b8 (diff)
ia64: mark special ia64 memory areas anonymous
Commit bfd40eaff5ab ("mm: fix vma_is_anonymous() false-positives") made newly allocated vma's have a dummy vm_ops field so that they wouldn't be mistaken for anonymous mappings, and if you wanted an anonymous vma you had to explicitly say so by calling "vma_set_anonymous()" on it. However, it missed the two special vmas that ia64 processes have: the register backing store and the NaT page. So they wouldn't actually act like anonymous ranges, and page faults on them caused a SIGBUS rather than the creation of a new anon page in them. That obviously will make any ia64 binary very unhappy indeed, and the boot fails early. Fixes: bfd40eaff5ab ("mm: fix vma_is_anonymous() false-positives") Reported-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Kirill Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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