Linux-2.4.0-test4 - problems in memory management?

Murray Jensen Murray.Jensen at cmst.csiro.au
Wed Jul 19 11:49:20 EST 2000


On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 20:15:22 -0400 (EDT), Pavel Roskin <proski at gnu.org> writes:
>After going all the way down from fread() to __copy_tofrom_user() it
>appears that the later is at fault. It fails to copy large amounts of data
>(216 bytes is enough to be a problem) to the pages that have just been
>mmap'ed.

Hi Pavel, check out the thread "Help with string.S" in the linuxppc-dev
mailing list - it begins with this message:

http://lists.linuxppc.org/listarcs/linuxppc-dev/200007/msg00155.html

In particular, check out this message:

http://lists.linuxppc.org/listarcs/linuxppc-dev/200007/msg00153.html

Cheers!
								Murray...
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