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Date:	Tue, 7 Apr 2009 18:04:39 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
cc:	Lee.Schermerhorn@...com, npiggin@...e.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [10/16] POISON: Use bitmask/action code for try_to_unmap
 behaviour

On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Andi Kleen wrote:

> > Ignoring MLOCK? This means we are violating POSIX which says that an
> > MLOCKed page cannot be unmapped from a process?
>
> I'm sure if you can find sufficiently vague language in the document
> to standards lawyer around that requirement @)
>
> The alternative would be to panic.


If you unmmap a MLOCKed page then you may get memory corruption because
f.e. the Infiniband layer is doing DMA to that page.

> > How does that work for the poisoning case? We substitute a fresh page?
>
> It depends on the state of the page. If it was a clean disk mapped
> page yes (it's just invalidated and can be reloaded). If it's a dirty anon
> page the process is normally killed first (with advisory mode on) or only
> killed when it hits the corrupted page. The process can also
> catch the signal if it choses so. The late killing works with
> a special entry similar to the migration case, but that results
> in a special SIGBUS.

I think a process needs to be killed if any MLOCKed page gets corrupted
because the OS cannot keep the POSIX guarantees.

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