The patch titled Subject: mm: madvise: skip unmapped vma holes passed to process_madvise has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-madvise-skip-unmapped-vma-holes-passed-to-process_madvise.patch

This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-madvise-skip-unmapped-vma-holes... and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-madvise-skip-unmapped-vma-holes...

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------------------------------------------------------ From: Charan Teja Kalla quic_charante@quicinc.com Subject: mm: madvise: skip unmapped vma holes passed to process_madvise

The process_madvise() system call is expected to skip holes in vma passed through 'struct iovec' vector list. But do_madvise, which process_madvise() calls for each vma, returns ENOMEM in case of unmapped holes, despite the VMA is processed.

Thus process_madvise() should treat ENOMEM as expected and consider the VMA passed to as processed and continue processing other vma's in the vector list. Returning -ENOMEM to user, despite the VMA is processed, will be unable to figure out where to start the next madvise.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4f091776142f2ebf7b94018146de72318474e686.164700875... Fixes: ecb8ac8b1f14("mm/madvise: introduce process_madvise() syscall: an external memory hinting API") Signed-off-by: Charan Teja Kalla quic_charante@quicinc.com Cc: David Rientjes rientjes@google.com Cc: Michal Hocko mhocko@suse.com Cc: Minchan Kim minchan@kernel.org Cc: Nadav Amit nadav.amit@gmail.com Cc: Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan surenb@google.com Cc: Vlastimil Babka vbabka@suse.cz Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---

mm/madvise.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/madvise.c~mm-madvise-skip-unmapped-vma-holes-passed-to-process_madvise +++ a/mm/madvise.c @@ -1428,9 +1428,16 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(process_madvise, int, pi

while (iov_iter_count(&iter)) { iovec = iov_iter_iovec(&iter); + /* + * do_madvise returns ENOMEM if unmapped holes are present + * in the passed VMA. process_madvise() is expected to skip + * unmapped holes passed to it in the 'struct iovec' list + * and not fail because of them. Thus treat -ENOMEM return + * from do_madvise as valid and continue processing. + */ ret = do_madvise(mm, (unsigned long)iovec.iov_base, iovec.iov_len, behavior); - if (ret < 0) + if (ret < 0 && ret != -ENOMEM) break; iov_iter_advance(&iter, iovec.iov_len); } _

Patches currently in -mm which might be from quic_charante@quicinc.com are

mm-vmscan-fix-documentation-for-page_check_references.patch mm-madvise-return-correct-bytes-advised-with-process_madvise.patch mm-madvise-skip-unmapped-vma-holes-passed-to-process_madvise.patch