From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx158.postini.com [74.125.245.158]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A4036B0005 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:48:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from /spool/local by e7.ny.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:48:00 -0500 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by d01dlp02.pok.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D2696E8AEC for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:32:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from d01av03.pok.ibm.com (d01av03.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.217]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id r1BHWnPU284926 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:32:49 -0500 Received: from d01av03.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av03.pok.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id r1BHWljG016743 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:32:49 -0200 Message-ID: <51192B39.9060501@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 09:32:41 -0800 From: Dave Hansen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] add helper for highmem checks References: <20130208202813.62965F25@kernel.stglabs.ibm.com> <20130209094121.GB17728@pd.tnic> <20130209104751.GC17728@pd.tnic> In-Reply-To: <20130209104751.GC17728@pd.tnic> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Borislav Petkov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de On 02/09/2013 02:47 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 10:41:21AM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > With this change, they definitely fix something because I even get X on > the box started. Previously, it would spit out the warning and wouldn't > start X with the login window. And my suspicion is that wdm (WINGs > display manager) I'm using, does /dev/mem accesses when it starts and it > obviously failed. Now not so much :-) That's crazy. Didn't expect that at all. I guess X is happier getting an error than getting random pages back. I'm working on a set of patches now that should get it _working_ instead of just returning an error. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org