On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 05:20:48PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 09:52:22AM -0400, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > I'd love to use a lighter-weight weapon! What would you recommend using, > > zap_pte_range()? > > The most straight-forward way: extract body of pte cycle from > zap_pte_range() to separate function -- zap_pte() -- and use it. OK, I can do that. What about the other parts of zap_page_range(), do I need to call them? lru_add_drain(); tlb_gather_mmu(&tlb, mm, address, end); update_hiwater_rss(mm); mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(mm, address, end); [ unmap_single_vma(&tlb, vma, address, end, details);] mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(mm, address, end); tlb_finish_mmu(&tlb, address, end); > > if ((fd = open(argv[1], O_CREAT|O_RDWR, 0666)) < 0) { > > perror(argv[1]); > > exit(1); > > } > > > > if (ftruncate(fd, 4096) < 0) { > > Shouldn't this be ftruncate(fd, 0)? Otherwise the memcpy() below will > fault in page from backing storage, not hole and write will not replace > anything. Ah, it was starting with a new file, hence the O_CREAT up above. -- 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>