linux-kernel - Re: fs/proc/task_mmu: Implement IOCTL for efficient page table scanning

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Message-ID: <ZLmQBMympuVU2zLn@qmqm.qmqm.pl>
Date:   Thu, 20 Jul 2023 21:50:28 +0200
From:   Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
To:     Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@...labora.com>
Cc:     Alex Sierra <alex.sierra@....com>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@...gle.com>,
        Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
        Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Danylo Mocherniuk <mdanylo@...gle.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Gustavo A . R . Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
        "Liam R . Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Michał Mirosław <emmir@...gle.com>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>, Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>,
        Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>,
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        Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>,
        Yun Zhou <yun.zhou@...driver.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel@...labora.com
Subject: Re: fs/proc/task_mmu: Implement IOCTL for efficient page table
 scanning

On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 09:28:52PM +0200, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> This is a massaged version of patch by Muhammad Usama Anjum [1]
> to illustrate my review comments and hopefully push the implementation
> efforts closer to conclusion. The changes are:
[...]
> +static void pagemap_scan_backout_range(struct pagemap_scan_private *p,
> +				       unsigned long addr, unsigned long end)
> +{
> +	struct page_region *cur_buf = &p->cur_buf;
> +
> +	if (cur_buf->start != addr) {
> +		cur_buf->end = addr;
> +	} else {
> +		cur_buf->start = cur_buf->end = 0;
> +	}
> +
> +	p->end_addr = 0;

Just noticed that this is missing:

	p->found_pages -= (end - addr) / PAGE_SIZE;

> +}
[...]

Best Regards
Michał Mirosław