# Re: \[PATCH v2 14/20\] mm: Provide speculative fault infrastructure

- From: Anshuman Khandual \<hidden\>
- Date: 2017-08-30 03:49:19 
- List: linuxppc-dev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2017/08/5078743
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-mm/2017/08/5070003/t.md

```text
On 08/29/2017 05:34 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 09:59:30AM +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote:
>> On 27/08/2017 02:18, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>>>> +
>>>> +	if (unlikely(!vma->anon_vma))
>>>> +		goto unlock;
>>> It deserves a comment.
>> You're right I'll add it in the next version.
>> For the record, the root cause is that __anon_vma_prepare() requires the
>> mmap_sem to be held because vm_next and vm_prev must be safe.
> But should that test not be:
> 
> 	if (unlikely(vma_is_anonymous(vma) && !vma->anon_vma))
> 		goto unlock;

This makes more sense. We are backing off from speculative path
because struct anon_vma has not been created for this anonymous
vma and we cannot do that without holding mmap_sem. This should
have nothing to do with vma->vm_ops availability.
```