Re: [PATCH] mm: mempolicy: Skip inaccessible VMAs when setting MPOL_MF_LAZY

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 08:17:03PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> PROT_NUMA VMAs are skipped to avoid problems distinguishing between
> present, prot_none and special entries. MPOL_MF_LAZY is not visible from
> userspace since commit a720094ded8c ("mm: mempolicy: Hide MPOL_NOOP and
> MPOL_MF_LAZY from userspace for now") but it should still skip VMAs the
> same way task_numa_work does.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

> ---
>  mm/mempolicy.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
> index 8f5330d..a5877ce 100644
> --- a/mm/mempolicy.c
> +++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
> @@ -683,7 +683,9 @@ queue_pages_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
>  		}
>  
>  		if (flags & MPOL_MF_LAZY) {
> -			change_prot_numa(vma, start, endvma);
> +			/* Similar to task_numa_work, skip inaccessible VMAs */
> +			if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_READ | VM_EXEC | VM_WRITE))
> +				change_prot_numa(vma, start, endvma);
>  			goto next;
>  		}
>  

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