On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 06:48:46PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> Drop the pgtable_t variable from all implementation for pte_fn_t as none of
> them use it. apply_to_pte_range() should stop computing it as well. Should
> help us save some cycles.
You didn't add Martin Schwidefsky for some reaso
On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 04:14:57PM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> On Thu, 2 May 2019 06:46:23 -0700
> Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> > On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 06:48:46PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> > > Drop the pgtable_t variable from all implementation for pt
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 04:17:30PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> Can't have:
>
> switch (i) {
> int j;
> case 0:
> /* ... */
> }
>
> because it can't be turned into:
>
> switch (i) {
> int j = 0; /* not valid C */
> case 0:
>
On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 02:41:46PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Fri 02-08-19 11:12:44, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Thu 01-08-19 19:19:31, john.hubb...@gmail.com wrote:
> > [...]
> > > 2) Convert all of the call sites for get_user_pages*(), to
> > > invoke put_user_page*(), instead of put_page(). This
On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 09:19:47PM +0530, Souptick Joarder wrote:
> Just thought to take opinion for documentation before placing it in v3.
> Does it looks fine ?
>
> +/**
> + * __vm_insert_range - insert range of kernel pages into user vma
> + * @vma: user vma to map to
> + * @pages: pointer to a
ing commit:
> >
> > commit 0ee930e6cafa048c1925893d0ca89918b2814f2c
> > Author: Matthew Wilcox
> > Date: Tue Mar 5 15:46:06 2019 -0800
> >
> > mm/memory.c: prevent mapping typed pages to userspace
> > Pages which use page_type must never be mapped to use
On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 03:34:56PM +, Robin Murphy wrote:
> > +int vm_insert_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
> > + struct page **pages, unsigned long page_count)
> > +{
> > + unsigned long uaddr = addr;
> > + int ret = 0, i;
>
> Some of the sites bei
On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 10:02:29AM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Skylake 32bit PAE Dom0:
> Bad swp_entry: 8000
> mm/swap_state.c:683: bad pte d3a39f1c(8004)
>
> Ivy Bridge 32bit PAE Dom0:
> Bad swp_entry: 4000
> mm/swap_state.c:683: bad pte d3a05
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 11:20:31PM +0800, Huaisheng Ye wrote:
> @@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ static void destroy_cache(struct zs_pool *pool)
> static unsigned long cache_alloc_handle(struct zs_pool *pool, gfp_t gfp)
> {
> return (unsigned long)kmem_cache_alloc(pool->handle_cachep,
> -
On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 08:37:28PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> So why is this any better than the current code. Sure I am not a great
> fan of GFP_ZONE_TABLE because of how it is incomprehensible but this
> doesn't look too much better, yet we are losing a check for incompatible
> gfp flags. The d
On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 02:23:23PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > If we had eight ZONEs, we could offer:
>
> No, please no more zones. What we have is quite a maint. burden on its
> own. Ideally we should only have lowmem, highmem and special/device
> zones for directly kernel accessible memory, t
On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 05:29:43PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > ie if we had more,
> > could we solve our pain by making them more generic?
>
> Well, if you have more you will consume more bits in the struct pages,
> right?
Not necessarily ... the zone number is stored in the struct page
curren
On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 10:17:00PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> Rename PG_balloon to PG_offline. This is an indicator that the page is
> logically offline, the content stale and that it should not be touched
> (e.g. a hypervisor would have to allocate backing storage in order for the
> guest t
On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 11:00:30AM +0530, Souptick Joarder wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 11:44 PM Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > On 11/15/18 7:45 AM, Souptick Joarder wrote:
> > What is the opposite of vm_insert_range() or even of vm_insert_page()?
> > or is there no need for that?
>
> There is no op
On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 12:26:38PM +0530, Souptick Joarder wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 11:59 PM Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > > + * vm_insert_range - insert range of kernel pages into user vma
> > > + * @vma: user vma to map to
> > > + * @addr: target user address of this page
> > > + * @pages: po
On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 01:02:46PM +0200, Oleksandr Andrushchenko wrote:
> On 11/19/18 12:42 PM, Souptick Joarder wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 3:22 PM Oleksandr Andrushchenko
> > wrote:
> > > > - unsigned long addr = vma->vm_start;
> > > > - int i;
> > > > + int err;
> > > I woul
On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 04:19:11AM -0700, William Kucharski wrote:
> Could you add a line to the description explicitly stating that a failure
> to insert any page in the range will fail the entire routine, something
> like:
>
> > * This allows drivers to insert range of kernel pages they've alloc
On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 06:37:21PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> void shmem_unpin_map(struct file *file, void *ptr)
> {
> + long i = shmem_npages(file);
> +
> mapping_clear_unevictable(file->f_mapping);
> - __shmem_unpin_map(file, ptr, shmem_npte(file));
> + vunmap(ptr);
> +
On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 08:22:49AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 08:11:57PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > This is awkward. I'd like it if we had a vfree() variant which called
> > put_page() instead of __free_pages(). I'd like it
On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 04:39:06PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 12:21:44PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > Actually, vfree() will work today; I cc'd you on a documentation update
> > to make it clear that this is permitted.
>
> vfree calls
On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 08:21:06PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> Let's prepare for additional flags and avoid long parameter lists of bools.
> Follow-up patches will also make use of the flags in __free_pages_ok(),
> however, I wasn't able to come up with a better name for the type - should
> b
On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 02:34:34PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 12:49:57PM -0700, ira.we...@intel.com wrote:
> > The kmap() calls in this FS are localized to a single thread. To avoid
> > the over head of global PKRS updates use the new kmap_thread() call.
> >
> > @@ -2410,
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 09:28:29AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> kmap_atomic() is always preferred over kmap()/kmap_thread().
> kmap_atomic() is _much_ more lightweight since its TLB invalidation is
> always CPU-local and never broadcast.
>
> So, basically, unless you *must* sleep while the mapping
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 12:53:54PM -0700, Ira Weiny wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 05:44:38PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 09:28:29AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > > kmap_atomic() is always preferred over kmap()/kmap_thread().
> > > k
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 11:44:29AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 12:52 PM wrote:
> >
> > From: Ira Weiny
> >
> > The kmap() calls in this FS are localized to a single thread. To avoid
> > the over head of global PKRS updates use the new kmap_thread() call.
> >
> > Cc: Nicol
On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 09:09:28AM -0700, t...@redhat.com wrote:
> clang has a number of useful, new warnings see
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://clang.llvm.org/docs/DiagnosticsReference.html__;!!GqivPVa7Brio!Krxz78O3RKcB9JBMVo_F98FupVhj_jxX60ddN6tKGEbv_cnooXc1nnBmchm-e_O9ieGnyQ$
>
Please
On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 12:13:35PM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Sun, 2020-10-18 at 19:59 +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 09:09:28AM -0700, t...@redhat.com wrote:
> > > clang has a number of useful, new warnings see
> > > https:
On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 10:23:51AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 18.11.2020 10:09, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 10:04:04AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> On 18.11.2020 09:58, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 09:56:11AM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> since this
On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 09:47:57AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> @@ -2887,13 +2887,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(filemap_map_pages);
> vm_fault_t filemap_page_mkwrite(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> {
> struct page *page = vmf->page;
> - struct inode *inode = file_inode(vmf->vma->vm_file);
> + st
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 04:32:53PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 12:21:21PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> > > > AFAICT bd_size_lock is pointless after these changes so we can just
> > > > remove
> > > > it?
> > >
> > > I don't think it is, as reuqiring bd_mutex for size upd
On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 08:50:58AM -0800, t...@redhat.com wrote:
> The fixer review is
> https://reviews.llvm.org/D91789
>
> A run over allyesconfig for x86_64 finds 62 issues, 5 are false positives.
> The false positives are caused by macros passed to other macros and by
> some macro expansions t
On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 06:46:46AM -0800, Tom Rix wrote:
>
> On 11/21/20 7:23 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 08:50:58AM -0800, t...@redhat.com wrote:
> >> The fixer review is
> >> https://reviews.llvm.org/D91789
> >>
> >> A
On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 02:27:08PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Use file->f_mapping in all remaining places that have a struct file
> available to properly handle the case where inode->i_mapping !=
> file_inode(file)->i_mapping.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwi
FYI your email is completely unreadable to those not using html.
I can't tell what you wrote and what Damien wrote.
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 08:33:10AM +, Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote:
> On 1/27/21 11:21 PM, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>
> On 2021/01/28 16:12, Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote:
>
>
> Introdu
On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 12:38:46AM -0800, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> +/* Use when VMA is not part of the VMA tree and needs no locking */
> +static inline void init_vm_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> + unsigned long flags)
> +{
> + vma->vm_flags = flags;
vm_fl
On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 08:49:50AM -0800, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 1:10 AM Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > + /*
> > > + * Flags, see mm.h.
> > > + * WARNING! Do not modify directly.
> > > + * Use {init|reset|set|clear|mod}_vm_flags() functions instead.
> >
On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 04:50:59PM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 11:17:09AM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 12:38:46AM -0800, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> > > +/* Use when VMA is not part of the VMA tree and needs no locking */
> > > +static inline voi
On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 09:41:36PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2023, Vishal Moola (Oracle) wrote:
>
> > The MM subsystem is trying to shrink struct page. This patchset
> > introduces a memory descriptor for page table tracking - struct ptdesc.
> >
> > This patchset introduces ptde
On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 10:57:59PM -0400, Demi Marie Obenour wrote:
> This uses the newly-introduced strict version of sscanf().
I can see that. Why does it do that?
Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst
(in general, there is a lack of detail across all four of these patches
justifying why any of
On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 12:57:19AM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Probably just trivial collisions in most architectures, which either
> of us can easily adjust to the other; powerpc likely to be more awkward,
> but fairly easily resolved; s390 quite a problem.
>
> I've so far been unable to post a
On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 09:44:08PM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2023, Vishal Moola (Oracle) wrote:
>
> > The MM subsystem is trying to shrink struct page. This patchset
> > introduces a memory descriptor for page table tracking - struct ptdesc.
> ...
> > 39 files changed, 686 inser
On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 09:41:18AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> I'm not a friend of these "overlays"; it all only really makes sense to me
> once we actually allocate the descriptors dynamically. Maybe some of the
> existing/ongoing conversions were different (that's why I was asking for the
>
On Tue, Jul 04, 2023 at 02:21:28PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> +struct bdev_handle *blkdev_get_handle_by_dev(dev_t dev, blk_mode_t mode,
> + void *holder, const struct blk_holder_ops *hops)
> +{
> + struct bdev_handle *handle = kmalloc(sizeof(struct bdev_handle),
> +
On Tue, Jul 04, 2023 at 07:06:26AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 7/4/23 05:21, Jan Kara wrote:
> > +struct bdev_handle {
> > + struct block_device *bdev;
> > + void *holder;
> > +};
>
> Please explain in the patch description why a holder pointer is introduced
> in struct bdev_handle and
On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 02:53:05PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > + arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode();
> > + for (;;) {
> > + set_pte(ptep, pte);
> > + if (--nr == 0)
> > + break;
> > + ptep++;
> > + pte = __pte(p
On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 08:37:15PM +0800, Yu Kuai wrote:
> +struct folio *bdev_read_folio(struct block_device *bdev, pgoff_t index)
> +{
> + return read_mapping_folio(bdev->bd_inode->i_mapping, index, NULL);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bdev_read_folio);
I'm coming to the opinion that 'index' is
On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 04:57:04PM +0800, Yu Kuai wrote:
> @@ -3674,16 +3670,17 @@ struct btrfs_super_block
> *btrfs_read_dev_one_super(struct block_device *bdev,
>* Drop the page of the primary superblock, so later read will
>* always read from the device.
>
On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 01:38:54PM -0700, Vishal Moola wrote:
> On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 1:20 PM Mike Rapoport wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 10:00:23AM -0700, Vishal Moola wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 1:56 AM Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, May 01,
On Sat, May 27, 2023 at 01:41:44PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> Sorry if I wasn't clear, by "page table page" I meant the page (or memory
> for that matter) for actual page table rather than struct page describing
> that memory.
>
> So what we allocate here is the actual memory for the page table
On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 04:55:58PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> You could have static const within functions too. You get the rodata
> protection and function local scope, best of both worlds?
timer_active is on the stack, so it can't be static const.
Does this really need to be cc'd to such a wid
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