* Kirill A. Shutemov (kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 07:07:58PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > MADV_USERFAULT is a new madvise flag that will set VM_USERFAULT in the > > vma flags. Whenever VM_USERFAULT is set in an anonymous vma, if > > userland touches a still unmapped virtual address, a sigbus signal is > > sent instead of allocating a new page. The sigbus signal handler will > > then resolve the page fault in userland by calling the > > remap_anon_pages syscall. > > Hm. I wounder if this functionality really fits madvise(2) interface: as > far as I understand it, it provides a way to give a *hint* to kernel which > may or may not trigger an action from kernel side. I don't think an > application will behaive reasonably if kernel ignore the *advise* and will > not send SIGBUS, but allocate memory. Aren't DONTNEED and DONTDUMP similar cases of madvise operations that are expected to do what they say ? > I would suggest to consider to use some other interface for the > functionality: a new syscall or, perhaps, mprotect(). Dave > -- > Kirill A. Shutemov -- Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@xxxxxxxxxx / Manchester, UK -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
