linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 4/7] mm: factor out madvise's core functionality

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Message-ID: <20190521065000.GH32329@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date:   Tue, 21 May 2019 08:50:00 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@...hat.com>
Cc:     Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Tim Murray <timmurray@...gle.com>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
        Daniel Colascione <dancol@...gle.com>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@...gle.com>,
        Brian Geffon <bgeffon@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 4/7] mm: factor out madvise's core functionality

On Tue 21-05-19 08:36:28, Oleksandr Natalenko wrote:
[...]
> Regarding restricting the hints, I'm definitely interested in having
> remote MADV_MERGEABLE/MADV_UNMERGEABLE. But, OTOH, doing it via remote
> madvise() introduces another issue with traversing remote VMAs reliably.
> IIUC, one can do this via userspace by parsing [s]maps file only, which
> is not very consistent, and once some range is parsed, and then it is
> immediately gone, a wrong hint will be sent.
> 
> Isn't this a problem we should worry about?

See http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190520091829.GY6836@dhcp22.suse.cz

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs