Re: [PATCH 03/10] mm: Convert p[te|md]_numa users to p[te|md]_protnone_numa

[Mel Gorman]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 10:50:35PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 08:53:37PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> >> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >> 
> >> > On Tue, 2014-12-02 at 12:57 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> >> >> Now, hash_preload can possibly insert an hpte in hash page table even if
> >> >> the access is not allowed by the pte permissions. But i guess even that
> >> >> is ok. because we will fault again, end-up calling hash_page_mm where we
> >> >> handle that part correctly.
> >> >
> >> > I think we need a test case...
> >> >
> >> 
> >> I ran the subpageprot test that Paul had written. I modified it to ran
> >> with selftest. 
> >> 
> >
> > It's implied but can I assume it passed? 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> -bash-4.2# ./subpage_prot 
> test: subpage_prot
> tags: git_version:v3.17-rc3-13511-g0cd3756
> allocated malloc block of 0x4000000 bytes at 0x0x3fffb0d10000
> testing malloc block...
> OK
> success: subpage_prot
> -bash-4.2# 
> 

Thanks for adding that and double checking. I won't pick up the patch as
part of this series because it's not directly related but I would strongly
suggest sending the patch separately.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs
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