On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 04:18:31PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > The risk of memory corruption is still zero no matter what happens > here, in the extremely rare case the app will get a SIGBUS or a
That might still upset people, SIGBUS isn't something an app can really recover from. > I'm not exactly sure why we allow VM_FAULT_RETRY only once currently > so I'm tempted to drop FAULT_FLAG_TRIED entirely. I think to ensure we make forward progress. > I've no real preference on how to tweak the page fault code to be able > to return VM_FAULT_RETRY indefinitely and I would aim for the smallest > change possible, so if you've suggestions now it's good time. Indefinitely is such a long time, we should try and finish computation before the computer dies etc. :-) Yes, yes.. I know, extremely unlikely etc. Still guarantees are good. In any case, I'm not really too bothered how you fix it, just figured I'd let you know. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
