On 2022/4/21 21:25, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 21.04.22 14:53, Miaohe Lin wrote:
>> Once the MADV_FREE operation has succeeded, callers can expect they might
>> get zero-fill pages if accessing the memory again. Therefore it should be
>> safe to delete the hwpoison entry and swapin error entry. There is no
>> reason to kill the process if it has called MADV_FREE on the range.
>>
>> Suggested-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> mm/madvise.c | 13 ++++++++-----
>> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
>> index 4d6592488b51..5f4537511532 100644
>> --- a/mm/madvise.c
>> +++ b/mm/madvise.c
>> @@ -624,11 +624,14 @@ static int madvise_free_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
>> swp_entry_t entry;
>>
>> entry = pte_to_swp_entry(ptent);
>> - if (non_swap_entry(entry))
>> - continue;
>> - nr_swap--;
>> - free_swap_and_cache(entry);
>> - pte_clear_not_present_full(mm, addr, pte, tlb->fullmm);
>> + if (!non_swap_entry(entry)) {
>> + nr_swap--;
>> + free_swap_and_cache(entry);
>> + pte_clear_not_present_full(mm, addr, pte, tlb->fullmm);
>> + } else if (is_hwpoison_entry(entry) ||
>> + is_swapin_error_entry(entry)) {
>> + pte_clear_not_present_full(mm, addr, pte, tlb->fullmm);
>> + }
>> continue;
>> }
>>
>
> Reading the man page that should be fine, but might not be required.
>
> "[...] the kernel can free the pages at any time. Once pages in the
> range have been freed, the caller will see zero-fill-on-demand pages
> upon subsequent page references."
Yes, this part is not mentioned in the man page.
>
>
> LGTM
>
> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
Many thanks for your quick respond and review!
