On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 07:05:47PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 09/14, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> >
> > Fix is below. I don't really like it, but I cannot find any better
> > solution.
>
> Me too...
>
> But this change "documents" the nasty special "vm_file && !vm_ops" case, and
> I am not sure how we can remove it later...
>
> So perhaps we should change vma_is_anonymous() back to check ->fault too,
>
> static inline bool vma_is_anonymous(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> {
> - return !vma->vm_ops;
> + return !vma->vm_ops || !vma->vm_ops->fault;
No. This would give a lot false positives from drives which setup page
tables upfront and don't use ->fault at all.
> }
>
> and remove the "vma->vm_file && !vma->vm_ops" checks in mmap_region() paths.
>
> I dunno.
>
> Oleg.
>
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