On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 04:24:08AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 08:22:54PM -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 04:14:24AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > > + if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->mprotect) {
> > > > + error = vma->vm_ops->mprotect(vma, nstart, tmp,
> > > > prot);
> > > > + if (error)
> > > > + goto out;
> > > > + }
> >
> > Based on "... and then the vma owner can do whatever it needs to before
> > calling mprotect_fixup(), which is already not static", my interpretation
> > is that Matthew's intent was to do:
> >
> > if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->mprotect)
> > error = = vma->vm_ops->mprotect(vma, nstart, tmp,
> > prot);
> > else
> > error = mprotect_fixup(vma, &prev, nstart, tmp,
> > newflags);
> > if (error)
> > goto out;
> >
> > i.e. make .mprotect() a full replacement as opposed to a prereq hook.
>
> Yes, it was. I was just looking at the next patch to be sure this was
> how I'd been misunderstood.
I'm don't get this part. If mprotect_fixup is called in the tail of the
callback, why it has to be called inside the callback and not be called
after the callback?
The reason I only part did what you requested was to do only the part of
the change that I get. Not to oppose it.
/Jarkko
