Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Avoid live-lock in fault-in+uaccess loops with sub-page faults

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 7:29 AM Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> We're trying pretty hard to handle large I/O requests efficiently at
> the filesystem level. A small, static upper limit in the fault-in
> functions has the potential to ruin those efforts. So I'm not a fan of
> that.

I don't think fault-in should happen under any sane normal circumstances.

Except for low-memory situations, and then you don't want to fault in
large areas.

Do you really expect to write big areas that the user has never even
touched? That would be literally insane.

And if the user _has_ touched them, then they'll in in-core. Except
for the "swapped out" case.

End result: this is purely a correctness issue, not a performance issue.

                       Linus