Re: [RFC PATCH] mm/rmap: do not call mmu_notifier_invalidate_page() v3

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Aug 29 2017 - 15:10:04 EST


On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 12:05 PM, JÃrÃme Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Some MMU notifier need to be able to sleep during callback. This was
> broken by c7ab0d2fdc84 ("mm: convert try_to_unmap_one() to use
> page_vma_mapped_walk()").

No. No no no.

Didn't you learn *anything* from the bug?

You cannot replace "mmu_notifier_invalidate_page()" with
"mmu_notifier_invalidate_range()".

KVM implements mmu_notifier_invalidate_page().

IT DOES NOT IMPLEMENT THAT RANGE CRAP AT ALL.

So any approach like this is fundamentally garbage. Really. Stop
sending crap. This is exactly tehe same thing that we already reverted
because it was broken shit. Why do you re-send it without actually
fixing the fundamental problems that were pointed out?

Linus