[vbox-dev] Patch needed for kernel 3.7

[Frank Mehnert]

Hi Larry,

On Monday 15 October 2012 18:29:26 Larry Finger wrote:
> In kernel 3.7-rc1, the flag VM_RESERVED is removed, and should be replaced
> by (VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP). The latter one is new. The patch listed
> below, which is under the MIT License) will work.
> 
> Index: vboxhost/vboxdrv/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c
> ===================================================================
> --- vboxhost.orig/vboxdrv/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c
> +++ vboxhost/vboxdrv/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c
> @@ -50,6 +50,10 @@
>   # define PAGE_READONLY_EXEC PAGE_READONLY
>   #endif
> 
> +#ifndef VM_RESERVED
> +# define  VM_RESERVED   (VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP)
> +#endif
> +
>   /*
>    * 2.6.29+ kernels don't work with remap_pfn_range() anymore because
>    * track_pfn_vma_new() is apparently not defined for non-RAM pages.
> 
> For reasons that are not yet understood, the straight-forward test for
> "LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3, 7, 0)" fails. That problem is
> being investigated.


we have already a similar fix, see r43637 and this one seems to work
(tested with Linux 3.7-rc1).

Kind regards,

Frank
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