Sorry for the late reply. I'll try to read this version/discussion
when I have time... yes, I have already promised this before, sorry :/

On 07/01, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
>
> There is no task_struct passed into get_user_pages_remote() anymore,
> drop the parts of comment mentioning NULL tsk, it's just confusing at
> this point.

Agreed.

> @@ -2030,10 +2030,8 @@ static int is_trap_at_addr(struct mm_struct *mm, 
> unsigned long vaddr)
>               goto out;
>
>       /*
> -      * The NULL 'tsk' here ensures that any faults that occur here
> -      * will not be accounted to the task.  'mm' *is* current->mm,
> -      * but we treat this as a 'remote' access since it is
> -      * essentially a kernel access to the memory.
> +      * 'mm' *is* current->mm, but we treat this as a 'remote' access since
> +      * it is essentially a kernel access to the memory.
>        */
>       result = get_user_pages_remote(mm, vaddr, 1, FOLL_FORCE, &page, NULL);

OK, this makes it less confusing, so

Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>


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but it still looks confusing to me. This code used to pass tsk = NULL
only to avoid tsk->maj/min_flt++ in faultin_page().

But today mm_account_fault() increments these counters without checking
FAULT_FLAG_REMOTE, mm == current->mm, so it seems it would be better to
just use get_user_pages() and remove this comment?

Oleg.


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