Re: [External] Re: [RFC] mm: add new syscall pidfd_set_mempolicy()

[Zhongkun He]

> On Wed 12-10-22 19:22:21, Zhongkun He wrote:
> > > Yes, this will require some refactoring and one potential way is to make
> > > mpol ref counting unconditional. The conditional ref. counting has
> > > already caused issues in the past and the code is rather hard to follow
> > > anyway. I am not really sure this optimization is worth it.
> > >
> > > Another option would be to block the pidfd side of things on completion
> > > which would wake it up from the task_work context but I would rather
> > > explore the ref counting approach first and only if this is proven to be
> > > too expensive to go with hacks like this.
> >
> > Hi Michal
> >
> > The counting approach means executing mpol_get/put() when start/finish using
> > mempolicy,right?
>
> We already do that via mpol_{get,put} but there are cases where the
> reference counting is ignored because it cannot be freed and also mpol_cond_put
> resp. open coded versions of mpol_needs_cond_ref.

Hi Michal

Could we try to change the MPOL_F_SHARED flag to MPOL_F_STATIC to
mark static mempolicy which cannot be freed, and mpol_needs_cond_ref
can use MPOL_F_STATIC to avoid freeing  the static mempolicy.
MPOL_F_SHARED loses its original meaning in counting approach.

Thanks.