linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 2/4] uprobe: use original page when all uprobes are removed

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Date:   Wed, 24 Jul 2019 11:17:25 +0200
From:   Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:     Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, matthew.wilcox@...cle.com,
        kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com, peterz@...radead.org,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, kernel-team@...com,
        william.kucharski@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 2/4] uprobe: use original page when all uprobes are
 removed

On 07/24, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> On 07/24, Song Liu wrote:
> >
> > This patch allows uprobe to use original page when possible (all uprobes
> > on the page are already removed).
>
> and only if the original page is already in the page cache and uptodate,
> right?
>
> another reason why I think unmap makes more sense... but I won't argue.

but somehow I forgot we need to read the original page anyway to check
pages_identical(), so unmap is not really better, please forget.

Oleg.