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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Charan Teja Kalla <quic_charante@quicinc.com>
Cc: <surenb@google.com>, <vbabka@suse.cz>, <rientjes@google.com>,
	<sfr@canb.auug.org.au>, <edgararriaga@google.com>,
	<minchan@kernel.org>, <nadav.amit@gmail.com>, <mhocko@suse.com>,
	<linux-mm@kvack.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2,0/2]mm: madvise: return correct bytes processed with process_madvise
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2022 13:42:03 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220311134203.47cbeab087b731bada12d0f1@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1647008754.git.quic_charante@quicinc.com>

On Fri, 11 Mar 2022 20:59:04 +0530 Charan Teja Kalla <quic_charante@quicinc.com> wrote:

> With the process_madvise(), always choose to return non zero processed
> bytes over an error. This can help the user to know on which VMA, passed
> in the 'struct iovec' vector list, is failed to advise thus can take the
> decission of retrying/skipping on that VMA.

Thanks, this is not good.

We should have added userspace tests for process_madvise() along with
the syscall itself.  But evidently that was omitted.  If someone
decides to contribute such tests, hopefully they will include checks
for these return values.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-03-11 21:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-11 15:29 [PATCH V2,0/2]mm: madvise: return correct bytes processed with process_madvise Charan Teja Kalla
2022-03-11 15:29 ` [PATCH V2,1/2] mm: madvise: return correct bytes advised " Charan Teja Kalla
2022-03-15 22:20   ` Minchan Kim
2022-03-21 15:18   ` Michal Hocko
2022-03-11 15:29 ` [PATCH V2,2/2] mm: madvise: skip unmapped vma holes passed to process_madvise Charan Teja Kalla
2022-03-15 22:58   ` Minchan Kim
2022-03-15 23:48     ` Andrew Morton
2022-03-16  1:43       ` Minchan Kim
2022-03-16 14:19         ` Charan Teja Kalla
2022-03-16 21:29           ` Andrew Morton
2022-03-17 16:28             ` Minchan Kim
2022-03-17 16:53               ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2022-03-17 20:38                 ` Nadav Amit
2022-03-18 14:05                   ` Charan Teja Kalla
2022-03-18 15:37                     ` Minchan Kim
2022-03-17 16:24           ` Minchan Kim
2022-03-21 15:02           ` Michal Hocko
2022-03-22  5:19             ` Charan Teja Kalla
2022-03-21 15:34   ` Michal Hocko
2022-03-22  7:10     ` Charan Teja Kalla
2022-03-22  8:40       ` Michal Hocko
2022-03-11 21:42 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2022-03-15 14:26   ` [PATCH V2,0/2]mm: madvise: return correct bytes processed with process_madvise Charan Teja Kalla

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