From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 08:25:46 +0100 From: Nick Piggin Subject: Re: [patch 3/6] mm: fix fault vs invalidate race for linear mappings Message-ID: <20070307072545.GC15877@wotan.suse.de> References: <20070221023656.6306.246.sendpatchset@linux.site> <20070221023724.6306.53097.sendpatchset@linux.site> <20070306223641.505db0e0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070307065727.GA15877@wotan.suse.de> <20070306230841.69409ffc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070306230841.69409ffc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Linux Memory Management , Linux Kernel , Benjamin Herrenschmidt List-ID: On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:08:41PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 07:57:27 +0100 Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > > > > Why was truncate_inode_pages_range() altered to unmap the page if it got > > > mapped again? > > > > > > Oh. Because the unmap_mapping_range() call got removed from vmtruncate(). > > > Why? (Please send suitable updates to the changelog). > > > > We have to ensure it is unmapped, and be prepared to unmap it while under > > the page lock. > > But vmtruncate() dropped i_size, so nobody will map this page into > pagetables from then on. But there could be a fault in progress... the only way to know is locking the page. > > > I guess truncate of a mmapped area isn't sufficiently common to worry about > > > the inefficiency of this change. > > > > Yeah, and it should be more efficient for files that aren't mmapped, > > because we don't have to take i_mmap_lock for them. > > > > > Lots of memory barriers got removed in memory.c, unchangeloggedly. > > > > Yeah they were all for the lockless truncate_count checks. Now that > > we use the page lock, we don't need barriers. > > > > > Gratuitous renaming of locals in do_no_page() makes the change hard to > > > review. Should have been a separate patch. > > > > > > In fact, the patch would have been heaps clearer if that renaming had been > > > a separate patch. > > > > Shall I? > > If you don't have anything better to do, yes please ;) OK. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org