Re: [PATCH] mm: check VMA flags to avoid invalid PROT_NONE NUMA balancing

Lorenzo Stoakes
2016-10-07T16:22:51Z

On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 08:34:15AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Would you be willing to look at doing that kind of purely syntactic,
> non-semantic cleanup first?

Sure, more than happy to do that! I'll work on a patch for this.

> I think that if we end up having the FOLL_FORCE semantics, we're
> actually better off having an explicit FOLL_FORCE flag, and *not* do
> some kind of implicit "under these magical circumstances we'll force
> it anyway". The implicit thing is what we used to do long long ago, we
> definitely don't want to.

That's a good point, it would definitely be considerably more 'magical', and
expanding the conditions to include uprobes etc. would only add to that.

I wondered about an alternative parameter/flag but it felt like it was
more-or-less FOLL_FORCE in a different form, at which point it may as well
remain FOLL_FORCE :)