Re: [PATCH 1/3] vmalloc: ignore vmalloc area holes in vwrite()

[Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>]

Hi Kame,

I'll go out for a while. If you are going to do your improvements to
vmalloc.c, please feel free to do so. I can rebase the hwpoison bits
after yours.

I could do the kmem part(in a modified patch 2/3) and let it return
any error code vread/vwrite reports.  Ideally the kmem read/write
could do

        if (zero bytes successfully read/written)
                return error_code;
        else
                return bytes_so_far;

Do you agree?

Thanks,
Fengguang

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:34:25AM +0800, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:18:52 +0800
> Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > Siliently ignore all vmalloc area holes in vwrite(),
> > and report success to the caller even if nothing is written.
> > 
> > CC: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
> 
> Why don't you modify vread() at the same time ?
> Because /proc/kcore ignores return value of vread(), I think you can
> modify it without no side-effect.
> 
> Regards,
> -Kame
> 
> > ---
> >  mm/vmalloc.c |   13 ++-----------
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> > 
> > --- linux-mm.orig/mm/vmalloc.c	2009-09-15 10:08:33.000000000 +0800
> > +++ linux-mm/mm/vmalloc.c	2009-09-15 10:14:18.000000000 +0800
> > @@ -1805,10 +1805,8 @@ finished:
> >   *	@addr:		vm address.
> >   *	@count:		number of bytes to be read.
> >   *
> > - *	Returns # of bytes which addr and buf should be incresed.
> > + *	Returns # of bytes which addr and buf should be increased.
> >   *	(same number to @count).
> > - *	If [addr...addr+count) doesn't includes any intersect with valid
> > - *	vmalloc area, returns 0.
> >   *
> >   *	This function checks that addr is a valid vmalloc'ed area, and
> >   *	copy data from a buffer to the given addr. If specified range of
> > @@ -1816,8 +1814,6 @@ finished:
> >   *	proper area of @buf. If there are memory holes, no copy to hole.
> >   *	IOREMAP area is treated as memory hole and no copy is done.
> >   *
> > - *	If [addr...addr+count) doesn't includes any intersects with alive
> > - *	vm_struct area, returns 0.
> >   *	@buf should be kernel's buffer. Because	this function uses KM_USER0,
> >   *	the caller should guarantee KM_USER0 is not used.
> >   *
> > @@ -1834,7 +1830,6 @@ long vwrite(char *buf, char *addr, unsig
> >  	struct vm_struct *tmp;
> >  	char *vaddr;
> >  	unsigned long n, buflen;
> > -	int copied = 0;
> >  
> >  	/* Don't allow overflow */
> >  	if ((unsigned long) addr + count < count)
> > @@ -1856,18 +1851,14 @@ long vwrite(char *buf, char *addr, unsig
> >  		n = vaddr + tmp->size - PAGE_SIZE - addr;
> >  		if (n > count)
> >  			n = count;
> > -		if (!(tmp->flags & VM_IOREMAP)) {
> > +		if (!(tmp->flags & VM_IOREMAP))
> >  			aligned_vwrite(buf, addr, n);
> > -			copied++;
> > -		}
> >  		buf += n;
> >  		addr += n;
> >  		count -= n;
> >  	}
> >  finished:
> >  	read_unlock(&vmlist_lock);
> > -	if (!copied)
> > -		return 0;
> >  	return buflen;
> >  }
> >  
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> >