Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] mm: introduce put_user_page*(), placeholder versions

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On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 08:55:17AM -0600, William Kucharski wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Mar 19, 2019, at 10:33 PM, Jerome Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > So i believe best we could do is send a SIGBUS to the process that has
> > GUPed a range of a file that is being truncated this would match what
> > we do for CPU acces. There is no reason access through GUP should be
> > handled any differently.
> 
> This should be done lazily, as there's no need to send the SIGBUS unless
> the GUPed page is actually accessed post-truncate.

Issue is that unlike CPU access we might not be able to detect device
access and thus it is not something we can do lazily for everyone.

Cheers,
Jérôme



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