Re: [PATCH 06/17] prmem: test cases for memory protection

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Thu Oct 25 2018 - 12:43:56 EST


> +static bool is_address_protected(void *p)
> +{
> + struct page *page;
> + struct vmap_area *area;
> +
> + if (unlikely(!is_vmalloc_addr(p)))
> + return false;
> + page = vmalloc_to_page(p);
> + if (unlikely(!page))
> + return false;
> + wmb(); /* Flush changes to the page table - is it needed? */

No.

The rest of this is just pretty verbose and seems to have been very
heavily copied and pasted. I guess that's OK for test code, though.