Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Rohit Seth wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 16:48 +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > >
> > > What happens when the hugetlb file is truncated down and back up after
> > > the mmap? Truncating down will remove a page from the mmap and flush TLB.
> > > Truncating up will let accesses to the gone page pass the valid...off test.
> > > But we've no support for hugetlb faulting in this version: so won't it get
> > > get stuck in a tight loop?
> >
> > First of all, there is currently no support of extending the hugetlb
> > file size using truncate in 2.6.14. (I agree that part is broken). So
> > the above scenario can not happen.
>
> I was forgetting that extending ftruncate wasn't supported in 2.6.14 and
> earlier, yes. But I'm afraid the above scenario can still happen there:
> extending is done, not by ftruncate, but by (somewhere else) mmapping the
> larger size. So your fix may still cause a tight infinite fault loop.
Will it? Whenever we mmap a hugetlbfs file we prepopulate the entire vma
with hugepages. So I don't think there's ever any part of an address space
which ia a) inside a hugepage vma and b) doesn't have a hugepage backing
it.
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