On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Minchan Kim wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Linus Torvalds
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:40 PM, David Gibson
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> This patch, therefore, stores a pointer to the inode instead of the
> >> address_space in the page private data for hugepages.
On Sat, 13 Aug 2011, David Gibson wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:15:21PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> >
> > Setting that aside, I think this thing of grabbing a reference to inode
> > for each page just does not work as you wish: when we unlink an inode,
> > al
On Wed, 6 Jul 2022, Chao Peng wrote:
> This is the v7 of this series which tries to implement the fd-based KVM
> guest private memory.
Here at last are my reluctant thoughts on this patchset.
fd-based approach for supporting KVM guest private memory: fine.
Use or abuse of memfd and shmem.c: mist
On Thu, 18 Aug 2022, Kirill A . Shutemov wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 10:40:12PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> >
> > If your memory could be swapped, that would be enough of a good reason
> > to make use of shmem.c: but it cannot be swapped; and although there
> >
On Fri, 19 Aug 2022, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2022, Kirill A . Shutemov wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 10:40:12PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > > On Wed, 6 Jul 2022, Chao Peng wrote:
> > > But since then, TDX in particular has forced an effor
On Sat, 20 Aug 2022, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>
> Yes, INACCESSIBLE is increase of complexity which you do not want to deal
> with in shmem.c. It get it.
It's not so much that INACCESSIBLE increases the complexity of
memfd/shmem/tmpfs, as that it is completely foreign to it.
And by handling all
On Mon, 11 Apr 2022, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 09:02:54PM +0800, Chao Peng wrote:
> > > I think the correct approach is to not do the locking automatically for
> > > SHM_F_INACCESSIBLE,
> > > and instead require userspace to do shmctl(.., SHM_LOCK, ...) if
> > > userspac
On Tue, 13 Jun 2023, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 13.06.23 10:26, Kasireddy, Vivek wrote:
> >> On 12.06.23 09:10, Kasireddy, Vivek wrote:
> >>> Sorry for the late reply; I just got back from vacation.
> >>> If it is unsafe to directly use the subpages of a hugetlb page, then
> >>> reverting
> >>>
