Re: [patch 05/16] mm: Allow special mappings with user access cleared

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Dec 13 2017 - 10:01:08 EST


On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 05:43:39PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > am I perchance looking at the wrong tee?
>
> I'm looking at Linus' tree.

Clearly I'm not synced up enough... :/

> It was changed recently:
> 5c9d2d5c269c ("mm: replace pte_write with pte_access_permitted in fault + gup paths")
>

Indeed. So FOLL_GET should also get these tests and, as you said, the
other levels too.

I would like FOLL_POPULATE (doesn't have FOLL_GET) to be allowed
'access'.