Re: [RFC PATCH v2 4/4] mm/madvise: remove redundant mmap_lock operations from process_madvise()

[Davidlohr Bueso]

On Fri, 31 Jan 2025, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:

> Keep in mind process_madvise() is not limited by IOV_MAX, which can be rather
> high, but rather UIO_FASTIOV, which is limited to 8 entries.
>
> (Some have been surprised by this limitation...!)

Ah if that is the case then I'm fine with this patch as is.

> So I think at this point scaling isn't a huge issue, I raise it because in
> future we may want to increase this limit, at which point we should think about
> it, which is why I sort of hand-waved it away a bit.

Agreed.

SJ, feel free to add my:

Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>