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SubjectRe: [PATCH v7 1/7] mm: pass task and mm to do_madvise
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On 3/2/20 8:36 PM, Minchan Kim wrote:
> In upcoming patches, do_madvise will be called from external process
> context so we shouldn't asssume "current" is always hinted process's
> task_struct.


> Furthermore, we couldn't access mm_struct via task->mm
> once it's verified by access_mm which will be introduced in next
> patch[1].

I would suggest to replace with:

Furthermore, we must not access mm_struct via task->mm, but obtain it via
access_mm() once (in the following patch) and only use that pointer [1], so pass
it to do_madvise() as well. Note the vma->vm_mm pointers are safe, so we can use
them further down the call stack.

> And let's pass *current* and current->mm as arguments of
> do_madvise so it shouldn't change existing behavior but prepare
> next patch to make review easy.
>
> Note: io_madvise pass NULL as target_task argument of do_madvise
> because it couldn't know who is target.

can't

> [1] http://lore.kernel.org/r/CAG48ez27=pwm5m_N_988xT1huO7g7h6arTQL44zev6TD-h-7Tg@mail.gmail.com
>
> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
> Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

Nit:

> @@ -676,7 +677,6 @@ static int madvise_free_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr,
> if (nr_swap) {
> if (current->mm == mm)
> sync_mm_rss(mm);
> -
> add_mm_counter(mm, MM_SWAPENTS, nr_swap);
> }
> arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();

This looks stray and unrelated.

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