From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
"Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
Juan Yescas <jyescas@google.com>,
Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] mm: permit guard regions for file-backed/shmem mappings
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:31:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ac7d3b7c-7b36-47d2-be59-c1b6e0fa2d38@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c0e079bd-a840-4240-93ae-0ee2755d425a@lucifer.local>
>> See mlock2();
>>
>> SYSCALL_DEFINE3(mlock2, unsigned long, start, size_t, len, int, flags)
>> {
>> vm_flags_t vm_flags = VM_LOCKED;
>>
>> if (flags & ~MLOCK_ONFAULT)
>> return -EINVAL;
>>
>> if (flags & MLOCK_ONFAULT)
>> vm_flags |= VM_LOCKONFAULT;
>>
>> return do_mlock(start, len, vm_flags);
>> }
>>
>>
>> VM_LOCKONFAULT always as VM_LOCKED set as well.
>
> OK cool, that makes sense.
>
> As with much kernel stuff, I knew this in the past. Then I forgot. Then I knew
> again, then... :P if only somebody would write it down in a book...
And if there would be such a book in the makings, I would consider
hurrying up and preordering it ;)
--
Cheers,
David / dhildenb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-02-18 17:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-02-13 18:16 [PATCH 0/4] mm: permit guard regions for file-backed/shmem mappings Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-02-13 18:17 ` [PATCH 1/4] mm: allow guard regions in file-backed and read-only mappings Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-02-18 14:15 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-02-18 16:01 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-02-18 16:12 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-02-18 16:17 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-02-18 16:21 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-02-18 16:27 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-02-18 16:49 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-02-18 17:00 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-02-18 17:04 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-02-24 14:02 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-02-13 18:17 ` [PATCH 2/4] selftests/mm: rename guard-pages to guard-regions Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-02-18 14:15 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-03-02 8:35 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-02-13 18:17 ` [PATCH 3/4] tools/selftests: expand all guard region tests to file-backed Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-02-18 14:17 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-04-22 10:37 ` Ryan Roberts
2025-04-22 10:47 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-04-22 11:03 ` Ryan Roberts
2025-04-22 11:07 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-04-22 11:11 ` Ryan Roberts
2025-02-13 18:17 ` [PATCH 4/4] tools/selftests: add file/shmem-backed mapping guard region tests Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-02-18 14:18 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-02-18 12:12 ` [PATCH 0/4] mm: permit guard regions for file-backed/shmem mappings Vlastimil Babka
2025-02-18 13:05 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-02-18 14:35 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-02-18 14:53 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-02-18 15:20 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-02-18 16:43 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-02-18 17:14 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-02-18 17:20 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-02-18 17:25 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-02-18 17:28 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-02-18 17:31 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2025-02-25 15:54 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-02-25 16:31 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-02-25 16:37 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-02-25 16:48 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-02-19 8:25 ` Kalesh Singh
2025-02-19 8:35 ` Kalesh Singh
2025-02-19 9:15 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-02-19 17:32 ` Liam R. Howlett
2025-02-19 9:03 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-02-19 9:15 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-02-19 9:17 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-02-19 18:52 ` Kalesh Singh
2025-02-19 19:20 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-02-19 20:56 ` Kalesh Singh
2025-02-20 8:51 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-02-20 8:57 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-02-20 9:04 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-02-20 9:23 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-02-20 9:47 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-02-20 10:03 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-02-20 10:15 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-02-20 12:44 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-02-20 13:18 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-02-20 16:21 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2025-02-20 18:08 ` Kalesh Singh
2025-02-21 11:04 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-02-21 17:24 ` Kalesh Singh
2025-02-20 9:22 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-02-20 9:53 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
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