Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] special_mapping_fault() is broken
From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Fri Jul 10 2015 - 13:09:05 EST
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 06:51:21PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> special_mapping_fault() is absolutely broken. It seems it was always
> wrong, but this didn't matter until vdso/vvar started to use more than
> one page.
>
> The patches are the same, just 1/3 was re-diffed on top of the recent
> 6b7339f4c31ad "mm: avoid setting up anonymous pages into file mapping"
> from Kirill.
>
> And after this change vma_is_anonymous() becomes really trivial, it
> simply checks vm_ops == NULL. However, I do think the helper makes
> sense. There are a lot of ->vm_ops != NULL checks, the helper makes
> the caller's code more understandable (self-documented) and this is
> more grep-friendly.
For all three:
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Kirill A. Shutemov
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