Thread (20 messages) 20 messages, 6 authors, 2020-12-23

Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm/madvise: add process_madvise MADV_DONTNEER support

From: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Date: 2020-11-24 16:42:42
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On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 5:42 AM Oleg Nesterov [off-list ref] wrote:
On 11/23, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
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+     if (madvise_destructive(behavior)) {
+             /* Allow destructive madvise only on a dying processes */
+             if (!signal_group_exit(task->signal)) {
signal_group_exit(task) is true if this task execs and kills other threads,
see the comment above this helper.

I think you need !(task->signal->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT).
I see. Thanks for the feedback, Oleg. I'll test and fix it in the next version.
Oleg.
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