linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 6/6] mm,thp: avoid writes to file with THP in pagecache

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Date:   Thu, 27 Jun 2019 09:18:35 -0400
From:   Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>
To:     Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     matthew.wilcox@...cle.com, kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com,
        kernel-team@...com, william.kucharski@...cle.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, hdanton@...a.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 6/6] mm,thp: avoid writes to file with THP in
 pagecache

On Mon, 2019-06-24 at 17:12 -0700, Song Liu wrote:
> In previous patch, an application could put part of its text section
> in
> THP via madvise(). These THPs will be protected from writes when the
> application is still running (TXTBSY). However, after the application
> exits, the file is available for writes.
> 
> This patch avoids writes to file THP by dropping page cache for the
> file
> when the file is open for write. A new counter nr_thps is added to
> struct
> address_space. In do_last(), if the file is open for write and
> nr_thps
> is non-zero, we drop page cache for the whole file.
> 
> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>

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