Re: [PATCH RFC] mm: implement granular soft-dirty vma support

[Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 09:26:05PM +0500, Muhammad Usama Anjum wrote:
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>
> +static inline int nsdr_adjust_new_first(struct vm_area_struct *new, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> +{
> +	struct non_sd_reg *r, *r_tmp, *reg;
> +	unsigned long mid = vma->vm_start;
> +
> +	list_for_each_entry_safe(r, r_tmp, &vma->non_sd_reg, nsdr_head) {
> +		if (r->start < mid && r->end > mid) {
> +			reg = kmalloc(sizeof(struct non_sd_reg), GFP_KERNEL);
> +			if (!reg)
> +				return -ENOMEM;
> +			reg->start = r->start;
> +			reg->end = mid;
> +			list_add_tail(&reg->nsdr_head, &new->non_sd_reg);
> +
> +			r->start = mid;
> +		} else if (r->end <= mid) {
> +			list_move_tail(&r->nsdr_head, &new->non_sd_reg);
> +		}
> +	}
> +	return 0;
> +}

Hi Muhhamad, really sorry for delay. Please enlighten me here if I get your
idea right -- every new VMA merge might create a new non_sd_seg entry, right?
And this operation will be applied again and again until vma get freed. IOW
we gonna have a chain of non_sd_reg which will be hanging around until VMA
get freed, right?