Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] mm/gup/writeback: add callbacks for inaccessible pages

Dave Hansen
2020-04-16T14:20:50Z

On 4/16/20 5:15 AM, Claudio Imbrenda wrote:
>> I assumed that this was all anonymous-only so it's always dirty before
>> writeback starts.
> it could also be mmapped

Let's say you have a mmap()'d ramfs file. Another process calls which
doesn't have it mapped calls sys_write() and writes to the file.

This means that host host has to write to the physical page and must do
arch_make_page_accessible() in the sys_write() path somewhere.

There is a get_user_pages() in that path, but it's on the _source_
buffer, not the ramfs page because the ramfs page is not mapped.
There's also no __test_set_page_writeback() because you can't write back
ramfs.

Where is the arch_make_page_accessible() in this case on the ramfs page?