On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 10:09:35PM +0800, Jia He wrote: > When we tested pmdk unit test vmmalloc_fork TEST1 in arm64 guest, there > will be a double page fault in __copy_from_user_inatomic of cow_user_page. > > As told by Catalin: "On arm64 without hardware Access Flag, copying from > user will fail because the pte is old and cannot be marked young. So we > always end up with zeroed page after fork() + CoW for pfn mappings. we > don't always have a hardware-managed access flag on arm64." > > -Changes > v12: > refine PATCH 01, remove the !! since C languages can convert unsigned > to bool (Catalin)
Thanks. I think it's a bit late to take something like this for 5.4 now, especially as the current behaviour has always been there. Hopefully somebody can queue it for 5.5 instead. Will
