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We changed faultin_page_range() to no longer consume a VMA, because faultin_page_range() might internally release the mm lock to lookup the VMA again -- required to cleanly handle VM_FAULT_RETRY. But independent of that, __get_user_pages() will always lookup the VMA itself. Now that we let __get_user_pages() just handle VMA checks in a way that is suitable for MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE), the VMA walk in madvise() is just overhead. So let's just call madvise_populate() on the full range instead. There is one change in behavior: madvise_walk_vmas() would skip any VMA holes, and if everything succeeded, it would return -ENOMEM after processing all VMAs. However, for MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) it's unlikely for the caller to notice any difference: -ENOMEM might either indicate that there were VMA holes or that populating page tables failed because there was not enough memory. So it's unlikely that user space will notice the difference, and that special handling likely only makes sense for some other madvise() actions. Further, we'd already fail with -ENOMEM early in the past if looking up the VMA after dropping the MM lock failed because of concurrent VMA modifications. So let's just keep it simple and avoid the madvise VMA walk, and consistently fail early if we find a VMA hole. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240314161300.382526-3-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.