On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 03:57:40PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 01:22:11PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > get_user_pages_fast() will ultimately end up doing > > pte_access_permitted() before getting the page, follow_page OTOH does > > not do this, which makes for a curious difference between the two. > > > > So I'm thinking we want the below irrespective of the VM_NOUSER patch, > > but with VM_NOUSER it would mean write(2) will no longer be able to > > access the page. > > Oh.. > > We do call pte_access_permitted(), but only for write access. > See can_follow_write_pte(). My can_follow_write_pte() looks like: static inline bool can_follow_write_pte(pte_t pte, unsigned int flags) { return pte_write(pte) || ((flags & FOLL_FORCE) && (flags & FOLL_COW) && pte_dirty(pte)); } am I perchance looking at the wrong tee? > The issue seems bigger: we also need such calls for other page table levels :-/ Sure. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>