Re: [RFC 7/7] mm: madvise support MADV_ANONYMOUS_FILTER and MADV_FILE_FILTER

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On Tue 28-05-19 05:18:48, Daniel Colascione wrote:
[...]
> The important requirement, I think, is that we need to support
> managing "memory-naive" uncooperative tasks (perhaps legacy ones
> written before cross-process memory management even became possible),
> and I think that the cooperative-vs-uncooperative distinction matters
> a lot more than the tgid of the thread doing the memory manipulation.
> (Although in our case, we really do need a separate tgid. :-))

Agreed here and that requires some sort of revalidation and failure on
"object has changed" in one form or another IMHO.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs



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