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You were _explicitly_ >>>> advised not to send this series. And yet you've sent it anyway. >>>> >>>> I mean, I appreciate your enthusiasm and the fact you've made tests here >>>> etc. obviously. And you've clearly put a TON of work in. But I just don't >>>> know why you would when explicitly told not to without at least discussing >>>> it first? >>>> >>>> This just isn't a great way of interacting with the community. We're all >>>> human, please try to have some empathy for others here, as I really do try >>>> to have with you as best I can. >>>> >>>> This adds a ton of churn and LOCKS IN assumptions about how anon_vma works, >>>> clashes with other series (most notably series I've been working on), takes >>>> away from efforts I want to make to start to join file-backed and anon >>>> reverse mapping logic, separates the two in such a way as to encourage this >>>> to nonly grow and generally isn't conducive to where I want to go with >>>> rmap. >>> >>> anon_vma, the unloved child. :) >>> >>> I would love to see a simplification that makes it less special, and I can >>> understand how adding tests for the ways it is special can be >>> counter-productive. >>> >>>> >>>> This is part of why I explicitly told you please don't go down this road, >>>> because you're likely to end up doing work that doesn't get used. It's not >>>> a great use of your time either. >>>> >>>> Since there's something useful here in tests, I may at a later date come >>>> back to those. >>> >>> Agreed, skimming over the tests there are some nice diagrams and cases. >>> >>> But I would hope that for most of these cases we could test on a higher >>> level: test our expectations when running real programs that we want to >>> check, especially when performing internal changes on how we handle anon >>> memory + rmap. >>> >>> E.g., do fork(), then test if we can successfully perform rmap >>> lookups/updates (e.g., migrate folio to a different numa node etc). >>> >> >> That's a great point! Wei - if you could look at making some self-tests >> (i.e. that live in tools/testing/selftests/mm) that try to recreate _real_ >> scenarios that use the rmap like this and assert correct behaviour there, >> that could be a positive way of moving forward with this. >> > > I am trying to understand what scenarios you want. That is exactly the task to figure out: how can we actually test our rmap implementation from a higher level. The example regarding fork and migration is possibly a low-hanging fruit. We might already have the functionality to achieve it, *maybe* we'd even want some extensions to make it all even easier to test. For example, MADV_PAGEOUT is refused on folios that are mapped into multiple processes. Maybe we'd want the option to *still* page it out, just like MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL allows with CAP_SYS_NICE to *still* migrate a folio that is mapped into multiple processes. Some rmap tests could make sense for both, anon and pagecache folios. > > Something like below? > > * fork and migrate a range in child > * fork/unmap in parent and migrate a range in child > > If the operation is successful, then we are good, right? Yes. And one can come up with a bunch of similar rmap test cases, like doing a partial mremap() of a THP, then testing if the rmap walk still works as expected, pairing the whole thing with for etc. One "problem" here is that even with MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL, move_pages() will not move a folio if it already resides on the target node. So one always needs two NUMA nodes, which is a bit suboptimal for testing purposes. For testing purposes, it could have been helpful a couple of times already to just have a way of migrating a folio even if it already resides on the expected node. -- Cheers, David / dhildenb