Re: [PATCH 02/10] mm,madvise: call soft_offline_page() without MF_COUNT_INCREASED

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On 10.09.19 12:30, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Currently madvise_inject_error() pins the target via get_user_pages_fast.
> The call to get_user_pages_fast is only to get the respective page
> of a given address, but it is the job of the memory-poisoning handler
> to deal with races, so drop the refcount grabbed by get_user_pages_fast.
> 

Oh, and another question "it is the job of the memory-poisoning handler"
- is that already properly implemented? (newbee question ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb





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