On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 02:19:16PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote: > > I'd rather see something like FOLL_ALLOW_BROKEN_FILE_MAPPINGS than > > io_uring open coding this kind of stuff. > > > > How would the semantics of this work? What is broken? It is a little > frustrating that we have FOLL_ANON but hugetlb as an outlying case, adding > FOLL_ANON_OR_HUGETLB was another consideration... It says "historically this user has accepted file backed pages and we we think there may actually be users doing that, so don't break the uABI" Without the flag GUP would refuse to return file backed pages that can trigger kernel crashes or data corruption. Eg we'd want most places to not specify the flag and the few that do to have some justification. We should consdier removing FOLL_ANON, I'm not sure it really makes sense these days for what proc is doing with it. All that proc stuff could likely be turned into a kthread_use_mm() and a simple copy_to/from user? I suspect that eliminates the need to check for FOLL_ANON? Jason
