Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 02/10] mm,madvise: call soft_offline_page() without MF_COUNT_INCREASED | From | David Hildenbrand <> | Date | Wed, 11 Sep 2019 12:27:22 +0200 |
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On 10.09.19 12:30, Oscar Salvador wrote: > From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> > > Currently madvise_inject_error() pins the target via get_user_pages_fast. > The call to get_user_pages_fast is only to get the respective page > of a given address, but it is the job of the memory-poisoning handler > to deal with races, so drop the refcount grabbed by get_user_pages_fast. >
Oh, and another question "it is the job of the memory-poisoning handler" - is that already properly implemented? (newbee question ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
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Thanks,
David / dhildenb
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