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SubjectRe: [PATCH v1 06/11] mm: support GUP-triggered unsharing via FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE (!hugetlb)
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On 17.12.21 21:51, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 12:45 PM David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> If a page is mapped exactly once, page_mapcount(page) == 1 and there is
>> nothing to do.
>
> Why?
>
> You state that, but you stating that doesn't magically make it so.
>
> What makes "mapcount==1" stable and special? Your "it's an
> atomic_read()" argument is nonsense - it implies that the count can be
> changing, but you will get _one_ answer.

And I explained how it can not increment. And the only way is via
fork(), which cannot run concurrently.

>
> What makes that one answer of a changing count special?
>
> What if there are other references to that same page, gotten with
> vmsplice(), and just about to be mapped into another address space?

If we have a shared anonymous page we cannot have GUP references, not
even R/O ones. Because GUP would have unshared and copied the page,
resulting in a R/O mapped anonymous page.

What am I missing?


--
Thanks,

David / dhildenb

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