This patch broke NFS for nommu kernels because of the use of vm_map_ram()/vm_unmap_ram() which don't exist for nommu. commit 56e4ebf877b6043c289bda32a5a7385b80c17dee Author: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com> Date: Wed Oct 20 15:44:37 2010 -0400 NFS: readdir with vmapped pages When trying to boot from an NFS root, I hit: BUG: failure at /linux-2.6/mm/nommu.c:419/vm_map_ram()!
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Created attachment 42952 [details] NFS: Don't use vm_map_ram() in readdir vm_map_ram() is not available on NOMMU platforms, and causes trouble on incoherrent architectures such as ARM when we access the page data through both the direct and the virtual mapping. The alternative is to use the direct mapping to access page data for the case when we are not crossing a page boundary, but to copy the data into a linear scratch buffer when we are accessing data that spans page boundaries.
The above patch has been merged into mainline as commit 6650239a4b01077e80d5a4468562756d77afaa59, with Cc: stable@kernel.org Marking this bug as resolved for now. Please tell me if this is not the case.