linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] mm: vmalloc: use rwsem, mutex for vmap_area_lock and vmap

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Message-ID: <ce89fe94-dc8d-4e10-9181-e01760939ef6@lucifer.local>
Date:   Mon, 20 Mar 2023 08:40:40 +0000
From:   Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@...il.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>,
        Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Liu Shixin <liushixin2@...wei.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] mm: vmalloc: use rwsem, mutex for vmap_area_lock
 and vmap_block->lock

On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 09:16:18PM +0000, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 08:47:14PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > I wonder if we can't do something like prefaulting the page before
> > taking the spinlock, then use copy_page_to_iter_atomic()
>
<snip>

On second thoughts, and discussing with Uladzislau, this seems like a more
sensible approach.

I'm going to respin with prefaulting and revert to the previous locking.