From: Charan Teja Kalla Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 21:46:44 +0000 (-0700) Subject: mm: madvise: return correct bytes advised with process_madvise X-Git-Tag: v6.1-rc5~1778^2~65 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5bd009c7c9a9e888077c07535dc0c70aeab242c3;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-starfive.git mm: madvise: return correct bytes advised with process_madvise Patch series "mm: madvise: return correct bytes processed with process_madvise", v2. With the process_madvise(), always choose to return non zero processed bytes over an error. This can help the user to know on which VMA, passed in the 'struct iovec' vector list, is failed to advise thus can take the decission of retrying/skipping on that VMA. This patch (of 2): The process_madvise() system call returns error even after processing some VMA's passed in the 'struct iovec' vector list which leaves the user confused to know where to restart the advise next. It is also against this syscall man page[1] documentation where it mentions that "return value may be less than the total number of requested bytes, if an error occurred after some iovec elements were already processed.". Consider a user passed 10 VMA's in the 'struct iovec' vector list of which 9 are processed but one. Then it just returns the error caused on that failed VMA despite the first 9 VMA's processed, leaving the user confused about on which VMA it is failed. Returning the number of bytes processed here can help the user to know which VMA it is failed on and thus can retry/skip the advise on that VMA. [1]https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/process_madvise.2.html. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1647008754.git.quic_charante@quicinc.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/125b61a0edcee5c2db8658aed9d06a43a19ccafc.1647008754.git.quic_charante@quicinc.com Fixes: ecb8ac8b1f14("mm/madvise: introduce process_madvise() syscall: an external memory hinting API") Signed-off-by: Charan Teja Kalla Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Stephen Rothwell Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Nadav Amit Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c index 2efcde2..df59937 100644 --- a/mm/madvise.c +++ b/mm/madvise.c @@ -1435,8 +1435,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(process_madvise, int, pidfd, const struct iovec __user *, vec, iov_iter_advance(&iter, iovec.iov_len); } - if (ret == 0) - ret = total_len - iov_iter_count(&iter); + ret = (total_len - iov_iter_count(&iter)) ? : ret; release_mm: mmput(mm);