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Date:   Tue, 22 Sep 2020 20:44:00 +0200
From:   Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To:     Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] mm: Do early cow for pinned pages during fork() for
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On 09/22, Peter Xu wrote:
>
> Or I can also do it in inverted order if you think better:
>
>         if (unlikely(copy_ret == COPY_MM_BREAK_COW)) {
>                 WARN_ON_ONCE(!data.cow_new_page);
>                 ...
>         }

Peter, let me say this again. I don't understand this code enough, you
can safely ignore me ;)

However. Personally I strongly prefer the above. Personally I really
dislike this part of 4/5:

	 again:
	+	/* We don't reset this for COPY_MM_BREAK_COW */
	+	memset(&data, 0, sizeof(data));
	+
	+again_break_cow:

If we rely on "copy_ret == COPY_MM_BREAK_COW" we can unify "again" and
"again_break_cow", we don't need to clear ->cow_new_page, this makes the
logic more understandable. To me at least ;)

Oleg.