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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Tue, 22 Jun 2021 11:07:56 -0700
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Subject: Re: Do we need to unrevert "fs: do not prefault sys_write() user
 buffer pages"?
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
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        Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
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On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 11:05 AM Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> Huh?  Last I checked, the fault_in_readable actually read a byte from
> the page.  It has to wait for the read to complete before that can
> happen.

Yeah, we don't have any kind of async fault-in model.

I'm not sure how that would even look. I don't think it would
necessarily be *impossible* (special marker in the exception table to
let the fault code know that this is a "prepare" fault), but it would
be pretty challenging.

            Linus