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[3.8,090/166] sched: numa: skip inaccessible VMAs

Message ID 1389822780-4729-91-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com
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Kamal Mostafa Jan. 15, 2014, 9:51 p.m. UTC 
3.8.13.16 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>

commit 3c67f474558748b604e247d92b55dfe89654c81d upstream.

Inaccessible VMA should not be trapping NUMA hint faults. Skip them.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
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 kernel/sched/fair.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index 6c8930e..843ab0b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -935,6 +935,13 @@  void task_numa_work(struct callback_head *work)
 		if (vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start < HPAGE_SIZE)
 			continue;
 
+		/*
+		 * Skip inaccessible VMAs to avoid any confusion between
+		 * PROT_NONE and NUMA hinting ptes
+		 */
+		if (!(vma->vm_flags & (VM_READ | VM_EXEC | VM_WRITE)))
+			continue;
+
 		do {
 			start = max(start, vma->vm_start);
 			end = ALIGN(start + (pages << PAGE_SHIFT), HPAGE_SIZE);