linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/19] Add generic user

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Date:   Mon, 9 Nov 2020 01:27:27 +0000
From:   Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@...il.com>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
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        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
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        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/19] Add generic user_landing tracking

On 11/8/20 7:07 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 7, 2020 at 9:17 PM Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com> wrote:
>>
>> Started from discussion [1], where was noted that currently a couple of
>> architectures support mremap() for vdso/sigpage, but not munmap().
>> If an application maps something on the ex-place of vdso/sigpage,
>> later after processing signal it will land there (good luck!)
>>
>> Patches set is based on linux-next (next-20201106) and it depends on
>> changes in x86/cleanups (those reclaim TIF_IA32/TIF_X32) and also
>> on my changes in akpm (fixing several mremap() issues).
>>
>> Logically, the patches set divides on:
>> - patch       1: cleanup for patches in x86/cleanups
>> - patches  2-11: cleanups for arch_setup_additional_pages()
> 
> I like these cleanups, although I think you should stop using terms
> like "new-born".  A task being exec'd is not newborn at all -- it's in
> the middle of a transformation.

Thank you for looking at them, Andy :-)

Yeah, somehow I thought about new-execed process as a new-born binary.
I'll try to improve changelogs in v2.

Thanks,
         Dmitry