Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Jul 2021 08:20:19 +0200 | From | Michal Hocko <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] mm: introduce process_mrelease system call |
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On Thu 22-07-21 21:47:56, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 7:04 PM Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 6:14 PM Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> > > wrote: > > > > > [...] > > > + > > > + mmap_read_lock(mm); > > > > How about mmap_read_trylock(mm) and return -EAGAIN on failure? > > > > That sounds like a good idea. Thanks! I'll add that in the next respin.
Why is that a good idea? Can you do anything meaningful about the failure other than immediately retry the syscall and hope for the best?
-- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
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