Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] mm/hmm: make full use of walk_page_range()

From: Jason Gunthorpe
Date: Tue Oct 29 2019 - 13:40:46 EST


On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 12:55:13PM -0700, Ralph Campbell wrote:
> hmm_range_fault() calls find_vma() and walk_page_range() in a loop.
> This is unnecessary duplication since walk_page_range() calls find_vma()
> in a loop already.
> Simplify hmm_range_fault() by defining a walk_test() callback function
> to filter unhandled vmas.
> This also fixes a bug where hmm_range_fault() was not checking
> start >= vma->vm_start before checking vma->vm_flags so hmm_range_fault()
> could return an error based on the wrong vma for the requested range.
> It also fixes a bug when the vma has no read access and the caller did
> not request a fault, there shouldn't be any error return code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "JÃrÃme Glisse" <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> mm/hmm.c | 126 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
> 1 file changed, 63 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)

This is looking OK, can we get an ack from Jerome? Christoph?

I recall my first worry was that walk->vma could now be null, as
ops->pte_hole is set. But it looks like that is all handled now?

Thanks,
Jason