On 11.07.24 21:17, Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 at 12:08, David Hildenbrand [off-list ref] wrote:

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We also have these folio_mark_dirty() calls, for example in
unpin_user_pages_dirty_lock(). Hm ... so preventing the folio from
getting dirtied is likely shaky.

I do wonder if we should just disallow page pinning for these pages
entirely. When the page can get replaced by zeroes at any time,
pinning it doesn't make much sense.

Except we do have that whole "fast" case that intentionally doesn't
take locks and doesn't have a vma. Darn.

Yeah, and I think it should all be simpler; we shouldn't have to 
special-case these cases everywhere.

Maybe we can just find a way to not do *folio_set_swapbacked() without a 
VMA.

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Cheers,

David / dhildenb