[parisc-linux] Re: Problems with kernel mmap (failing tst-mmap-eofsync in glibc on parisc)

[James Bottomley]

On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 17:51, David S. Miller wrote:
> Ok.  Let me think about this a bit more.
> 
> The safest solution for parisc, meanwhile, would be to walk the
> non-shared mmap list checking for any instance of the VM_MAYSHARE bit
> being set.

Right, that's how I plan to fix this problem in parisc.

We also need the VM_MAYSHARE flag to propagate across remappings, which
was the general kernel fix I sent some emails back.

James