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David Hildenbrand fa9fcd8bb6 mm/madvise: don't perform madvise VMA walk for MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE)
We changed faultin_page_range() to no longer consume a VMA, because
faultin_page_range() might internally release the mm lock to lookup
the VMA again -- required to cleanly handle VM_FAULT_RETRY. But
independent of that, __get_user_pages() will always lookup the VMA
itself.

Now that we let __get_user_pages() just handle VMA checks in a way that
is suitable for MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE), the VMA walk in madvise()
is just overhead. So let's just call madvise_populate()
on the full range instead.

There is one change in behavior: madvise_walk_vmas() would skip any VMA
holes, and if everything succeeded, it would return -ENOMEM after
processing all VMAs.

However, for MADV_POPULATE_(READ|WRITE) it's unlikely for the caller to
notice any difference: -ENOMEM might either indicate that there were VMA
holes or that populating page tables failed because there was not enough
memory. So it's unlikely that user space will notice the difference, and
that special handling likely only makes sense for some other madvise()
actions.

Further, we'd already fail with -ENOMEM early in the past if looking up the
VMA after dropping the MM lock failed because of concurrent VMA
modifications. So let's just keep it simple and avoid the madvise VMA
walk, and consistently fail early if we find a VMA hole.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240314161300.382526-3-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-04-25 20:55:43 -07:00
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