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Patch series "mm: Fix checking unmapped holes for mbind", v4.
This patchset fix checking unmapped holes for mbind().
First patch makes sure the vma been correctly tracked in .test_walk(),
so each time when .test_walk() is called, the neighborhood of two vma
is correct.
Current problem is that the !vma_migratable() check could cause return
immediately without update tracking to vma.
Second patch fix the inconsistent report of EFAULT when mbind() is
called for MPOL_DEFAULT and non MPOL_DEFAULT cases, so application do
not need to have workaround code to handle this special behavior.
Currently there are two problems, one is that the .test_walk() can not
know there is hole at tail side of range, because .test_walk() only
call for vma not for hole. The other one is that mbind_range() checks
for hole at head side of range but do not consider the
MPOL_MF_DISCONTIG_OK flag as done in .test_walk().
This patch (of 2):
Checking unmapped hole and updating the previous vma must be handled
first, otherwise the unmapped hole could be calculated from a wrong
previous vma.
Several commits were relevant to this error:
- commit 6f4576e3687b ("mempolicy: apply page table walker on
queue_pages_range()")
This commit was correct, the VM_PFNMAP check was after updating
previous vma
- commit 48684a65b4e3 ("mm: pagewalk: fix misbehavior of
walk_page_range for vma(VM_PFNMAP)")
This commit added VM_PFNMAP check before updating previous vma. Then,
there were two VM_PFNMAP check did same thing twice.
- commit acda0c334028 ("mm/mempolicy.c: get rid of duplicated check for
vma(VM_PFNMAP) in queue_page s_range()")
This commit tried to fix the duplicated VM_PFNMAP check, but it
wrongly removed the one which was after updating vma.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1573218104-11021-2-git-send-email-lixinhai.lxh@gmail.com
Fixes: acda0c334028 (mm/mempolicy.c: get rid of duplicated check for vma(VM_PFNMAP) in queue_pages_range())
Signed-off-by: Li Xinhai <lixinhai.lxh@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: linux-man <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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