linux-kernel - Re: change of behavior for madvise in 3.9-rc1

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Message-ID: <20130307043938.GA4393@kernel.org>
Date:	Thu, 7 Mar 2013 12:39:38 +0800
From:	Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>
To:	CAI Qian <caiqian@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: change of behavior for madvise in 3.9-rc1

On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 11:05:04PM -0500, CAI Qian wrote:
> Bisecting indicated that this commit,
> 1998cc048901109a29924380b8e91bc049b32951
> mm: make madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) support swap file prefetch
> 
> Caused an LTP test failure,
> http://goo.gl/1FVPy
> 
> madvise02    1  TPASS  :  failed as expected: TEST_ERRNO=EINVAL(22): Invalid argument
> madvise02    2  TPASS  :  failed as expected: TEST_ERRNO=EINVAL(22): Invalid argument
> madvise02    3  TPASS  :  failed as expected: TEST_ERRNO=EINVAL(22): Invalid argument
> madvise02    4  TPASS  :  failed as expected: TEST_ERRNO=ENOMEM(12): Cannot allocate memory
> madvise02    5  TFAIL  :  madvise succeeded unexpectedly
> 
> While it passed without the above commit
> madvise02    1  TPASS  :  failed as expected: TEST_ERRNO=EINVAL(22): Invalid argument
> madvise02    2  TPASS  :  failed as expected: TEST_ERRNO=EINVAL(22): Invalid argument
> madvise02    3  TPASS  :  failed as expected: TEST_ERRNO=EINVAL(22): Invalid argument
> madvise02    4  TPASS  :  failed as expected: TEST_ERRNO=ENOMEM(12): Cannot allocate memory
> madvise02    5  TPASS  :  failed as expected: TEST_ERRNO=EBADF(9): Bad file descriptor

I thought this is expected behavior. madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) to anonymous memory
doesn't return -EBADF now, as now we support swap prefretch.

Thanks,
Shaohua
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