From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pa0-f48.google.com (mail-pa0-f48.google.com [209.85.220.48]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91B646B0038 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 2015 17:00:34 -0500 (EST) Received: by padhx2 with SMTP id hx2so52224089pad.1 for ; Wed, 02 Dec 2015 14:00:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from mga11.intel.com (mga11.intel.com. [192.55.52.93]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id rp16si7246740pab.8.2015.12.02.14.00.33 for ; Wed, 02 Dec 2015 14:00:33 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Fix mmap MAP_POPULATE for DAX pmd mapping References: <1448309082-20851-1-git-send-email-toshi.kani@hpe.com> <1449022764.31589.24.camel@hpe.com> <1449078237.31589.30.camel@hpe.com> <1449084362.31589.37.camel@hpe.com> <1449086521.31589.39.camel@hpe.com> <1449087125.31589.45.camel@hpe.com> <1449092226.31589.50.camel@hpe.com> From: Dave Hansen Message-ID: <565F69FE.601@intel.com> Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 14:00:30 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Dan Williams , Toshi Kani Cc: Andrew Morton , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Matthew Wilcox , Ross Zwisler , mauricio.porto@hpe.com, Linux MM , linux-fsdevel , "linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" On 12/02/2015 12:54 PM, Dan Williams wrote: > On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Toshi Kani wrote: >> > On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 11:57 -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > [..] >>> >> The whole point of __get_user_page_fast() is to avoid the overhead of >>> >> taking the mm semaphore to access the vma. _PAGE_SPECIAL simply tells >>> >> __get_user_pages_fast that it needs to fallback to the >>> >> __get_user_pages slow path. >> > >> > I see. Then, I think gup_huge_pmd() can simply return 0 when !pfn_valid(), >> > instead of VM_BUG_ON. > Is pfn_valid() a reliable check? It seems to be based on a max_pfn > per node... what happens when pmem is located below that point. I > haven't been able to convince myself that we won't get false > positives, but maybe I'm missing something. With sparsemem at least, it makes sure that you're looking at a valid _section_. See the pfn_valid() at ~include/linux/mmzone.h:1222. -- 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