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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 08/17] mm: madvise MADV_USERFAULT
    On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 07:07:58PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
    > MADV_USERFAULT is a new madvise flag that will set VM_USERFAULT in the
    > vma flags. Whenever VM_USERFAULT is set in an anonymous vma, if
    > userland touches a still unmapped virtual address, a sigbus signal is
    > sent instead of allocating a new page. The sigbus signal handler will
    > then resolve the page fault in userland by calling the
    > remap_anon_pages syscall.

    Hm. I wounder if this functionality really fits madvise(2) interface: as
    far as I understand it, it provides a way to give a *hint* to kernel which
    may or may not trigger an action from kernel side. I don't think an
    application will behaive reasonably if kernel ignore the *advise* and will
    not send SIGBUS, but allocate memory.

    I would suggest to consider to use some other interface for the
    functionality: a new syscall or, perhaps, mprotect().

    --
    Kirill A. Shutemov


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