Re: [PATCH V3 4/5] mm: mmap: Add mmap flag to request VM_LOCKONFAULT

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On 07/18/2015 03:11 PM, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Eric B Munson<emunson@xxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>The cost of faulting in all memory to be locked can be very high when
>working with large mappings.  If only portions of the mapping will be
>used this can incur a high penalty for locking.
>
>Now that we have the new VMA flag for the locked but not present state,
>expose it  as an mmap option like MAP_LOCKED -> VM_LOCKED.
An automatic bisection on arch/tile leads to this commit:

5a5656f2c9b61c74c15f9ef3fa2e6513b6c237bb is the first bad commit
commit 5a5656f2c9b61c74c15f9ef3fa2e6513b6c237bb
Author: Eric B Munson<emunson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Thu Jul 16 10:09:22 2015 +1000

     mm: mmap: add mmap flag to request VM_LOCKONFAULT

Eric, I'm happy to help with figuring out the tile issues.

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