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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 14/20] mm: Provide speculative fault infrastructure
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On 08/29/2017 05:34 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 09:59:30AM +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote:
>> On 27/08/2017 02:18, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>>>> +
>>>> + if (unlikely(!vma->anon_vma))
>>>> + goto unlock;
>>> It deserves a comment.
>> You're right I'll add it in the next version.
>> For the record, the root cause is that __anon_vma_prepare() requires the
>> mmap_sem to be held because vm_next and vm_prev must be safe.
> But should that test not be:
>
> if (unlikely(vma_is_anonymous(vma) && !vma->anon_vma))
> goto unlock;

This makes more sense. We are backing off from speculative path
because struct anon_vma has not been created for this anonymous
vma and we cannot do that without holding mmap_sem. This should
have nothing to do with vma->vm_ops availability.

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