Re: introduce probe_slab_address?

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>]

On 10/22, David Miller wrote:
>
> From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 21:42:28 +0200
>
> > Now the question: is this LOAD is safe in case when this (freed) page
> > already has another mapping? This is black magic to me, I do not know.
> > And Peter has some concerns.
>
> It is immatieral, because you can read garbage and it's "don't care"
> in this context.
>
> And later if it is used again at this virtual address, it will be
> initialized with stores at that virtual address first.
>
> So no problem.

Great, thanks.

> > And, say, copy_from_user_page() on sparc does
> >
> > 	flush_cache_page();
> > 	memcpy();
> > 	flush_ptrace_access();
>
> In this case, as I tried to explain, it matters because the physical
> address is being accessed from two virtual address at the same time
> "for the same usage".
>
> That's what distinguishes this from the SLAB and RCU cases you cite.

Yes, this was my (vague) understanding, but thanks for another
explanation anyway.

Oleg.