linux-kernel - Re: Trinity and mbind flags (WAS: Re: mm: BUG in unmap_page

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Date:	Wed, 10 Sep 2014 10:33:52 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Cc:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Trinity and mbind flags (WAS: Re: mm: BUG in unmap_page_range)

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:24:40AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
 > On 09/10/2014 08:47 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
 > > That site should have checked PROT_NONE but it can't be the same bug
 > > that trinity is seeing. Minimally trinity is unaware of MPOL_MF_LAZY
 > > according to git grep of the trinity source.
 > 
 > Actually, if I'm reading it correctly I think that Trinity handles mbind()
 > calls wrong. It passes the wrong values for mode flags and actual flags.

Ugh, I think you're right.  I misinterpreted the man page that mentions
that flags like MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES/RELATIVE_NODES are OR'd with the
mode, and instead dumped those flags into .. the flags field.

So the 'flags' argument it generates is crap, because I didn't add
any of the actual correct values.

I'll fix it up, though if it's currently finding bugs, you might want
to keep the current syscalls/mbind.c for now.

	Dave

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