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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
	mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch] mremap.2: Add description of old_size == 0 functionality
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 16:54:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d06a26f1-5509-bd85-74bc-b08c3db0cb0d@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170925145238.gic2n37ffc6ytyvx@dhcp22.suse.cz>

On 09/25/2017 04:52 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Mon 25-09-17 15:16:09, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> On 09/25/2017 02:52 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
>>> So, how are you going to deal with the CoW and the implementation which
>>> basically means that the newm mmap content is not the same as the
>>> original one?
>>
>> I don't understand why CoW would kick in.
> 
> So you can guarantee nobody is going to write to that memory?

It's mapped readable and executable, but not writable.  So the only 
thing that could interfere would be a debugger.

Thanks,
Florian

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-25 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-15 21:37 [patch] mremap.2: Add description of old_size == 0 functionality Mike Kravetz
2017-09-15 21:53 ` Mike Kravetz
     [not found]   ` <a6e59a7f-fd15-9e49-356e-ed439f17e9df-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2017-09-18 13:45     ` Florian Weimer
2017-09-18 17:11       ` Mike Kravetz
     [not found]         ` <ee87215d-9704-7269-4ec1-226f2e32a751-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2017-09-19 12:11           ` Florian Weimer
2017-09-19 21:42             ` [patch v2] " Mike Kravetz
     [not found]               ` <20170919214224.19561-1-mike.kravetz-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2017-09-20  7:25                 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
     [not found]                   ` <6fafdae8-4fea-c967-f5cd-d22c205608fa-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2017-09-25 12:36                     ` Michal Hocko
2017-09-25 12:40                       ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2017-09-25 16:33                   ` Mike Kravetz
     [not found]                     ` <83b023da-e9f5-2957-981e-5b0e71e9bf1b-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2017-09-25 19:26                       ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
     [not found]             ` <a5d279cb-a015-f74c-2e40-a231aa7f7a8c-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2017-09-25 12:35               ` [patch] " Michal Hocko
2017-09-25 12:40                 ` Florian Weimer
2017-09-25 12:52                   ` Michal Hocko
2017-09-25 13:16                     ` Florian Weimer
     [not found]                       ` <765cd0cb-aa35-187c-456d-05d8752caa04-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2017-09-25 14:52                         ` Michal Hocko
2017-09-25 14:54                           ` Florian Weimer [this message]
     [not found] ` <20170915213745.6821-1-mike.kravetz-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2017-09-18  1:52   ` Jann Horn
2017-09-18 17:19     ` Mike Kravetz

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