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From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com>
Cc: carsteno@de.ibm.com, "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>,
	"Linux Memory Management List" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	"Martin Schwidefsky" <martin.schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	"Heiko Carstens" <h.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [rfc][patch 0/4] VM_MIXEDMAP patchset with s390 backend
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 23:12:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080108221246.GA25832@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6934efce0801081009v793715aal217ead6749a103aa@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:09:52AM -0800, Jared Hulbert wrote:
> > Jorn Engel wrote:
> > > "PTE_SPECIAL" does not sound too descriptive.  Maybe PTE_MIXEDMAP?  It
> > > may not be great, but at least it give a hint in the right direction.
> > True, I've chosen a different name. PTE_SPECIAL is the name in  Nick's
> > original patch (see patch in this thread).
> 
> Nick also want's to use that bit to "implement my lockless
> get_user_page" I assume that's why the name is a little vague.

Yeah, and to simplify vm_normal_page on those architectures which provide it.
So it isn't just for VM_MIXEDMAP mappings (unless you're implementing a bit
specifically for that as an s390 specific thing -- which is reasonable for now).

We have 2 types of user mappings in the VM; "normal" and not-normal. I don't think
the latter have a name, so I call them special. If you're used to "normal" then
I think special is descriptive enough ;)

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-08 22:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-14 13:38 [rfc][patch 1/2] mm: introduce VM_MIXEDMAP mappings Nick Piggin
2007-12-14 13:41 ` [rfc][patch 2/2] xip: support non-struct page memory Nick Piggin
2007-12-14 13:46   ` Carsten Otte
2007-12-15  1:07     ` Jared Hulbert
2007-12-15  1:17       ` Nick Piggin
2007-12-15  6:47         ` Jared Hulbert
2007-12-19 14:04   ` Carsten Otte
2007-12-20  9:23     ` Jared Hulbert
2007-12-21  0:40       ` Nick Piggin
2007-12-20 13:53   ` Carsten Otte
2007-12-20 14:33     ` Carsten Otte
2007-12-20 14:50       ` Carsten Otte
2007-12-20 17:24         ` Jared Hulbert
2007-12-21  0:12           ` Jared Hulbert
2007-12-21  0:56             ` Nick Piggin
2007-12-21  9:56             ` Carsten Otte
2007-12-21  9:49           ` Carsten Otte
2007-12-21  0:50         ` Nick Piggin
2007-12-21 10:02           ` Carsten Otte
2007-12-21 10:14             ` Nick Piggin
2007-12-21 10:17               ` Carsten Otte
2007-12-21 10:23                 ` Nick Piggin
2007-12-21 10:31                   ` Carsten Otte
2007-12-21  0:45       ` Nick Piggin
2007-12-21 10:05         ` Carsten Otte
2007-12-21 10:20           ` Nick Piggin
2007-12-21 10:35             ` Carsten Otte
2007-12-21 10:47               ` Nick Piggin
2007-12-21 19:29                 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-01-07  4:43                   ` [rfc][patch] mm: use a pte bit to flag normal pages Nick Piggin
2008-01-07  4:43                     ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-07 10:30                     ` Russell King
2008-01-07 10:30                       ` Russell King
2008-01-07 11:14                       ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-07 11:14                         ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-07 18:49                       ` Jared Hulbert
2008-01-07 18:49                         ` Jared Hulbert
2008-01-07 19:45                         ` Russell King
2008-01-07 19:45                           ` Russell King
2008-01-07 22:52                           ` Jared Hulbert
2008-01-07 22:52                             ` Jared Hulbert
2008-01-08  2:37                           ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-08  2:37                             ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-08  2:49                             ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-08  2:49                               ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-08  3:31                               ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-08  3:31                                 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-08  3:52                                 ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-08  3:52                                   ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-08 10:11                           ` Catalin Marinas
2008-01-08 10:11                             ` Catalin Marinas
2008-01-08 10:52                             ` Russell King
2008-01-08 10:52                               ` Russell King
2008-01-08 13:54                               ` Catalin Marinas
2008-01-08 13:54                                 ` Catalin Marinas
2008-01-08 14:08                                 ` Russell King
2008-01-08 14:08                                   ` Russell King
2008-01-10 13:33                     ` Carsten Otte
2008-01-10 13:33                       ` Carsten Otte
2008-01-10 23:18                       ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-10 23:18                         ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-08  9:35                 ` [rfc][patch 0/4] VM_MIXEDMAP patchset with s390 backend Carsten Otte
2008-01-08 10:08                   ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-08 11:34                     ` Carsten Otte
2008-01-08 11:55                       ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-08 12:03                         ` Carsten Otte
2008-01-08 13:56                       ` Jörn Engel
2008-01-08 14:51                         ` Carsten Otte
2008-01-08 18:09                           ` Jared Hulbert
2008-01-08 22:12                             ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2008-01-09 15:14                   ` [rfc][patch 0/4] VM_MIXEDMAP patchset with s390 backend v2 Carsten Otte
     [not found]                   ` <1199891032.28689.9.camel@cotte.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
2008-01-09 15:14                     ` [rfc][patch 1/4] include: add callbacks to toggle reference counting for VM_MIXEDMAP pages Carsten Otte, Carsten Otte
2008-01-09 17:31                       ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-01-09 18:17                       ` Jared Hulbert
2008-01-10  7:59                         ` Carsten Otte
2008-01-10 20:01                           ` Jared Hulbert
2008-01-11  8:45                             ` Carsten Otte
2008-01-13  2:44                               ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-14 11:36                                 ` Carsten Otte
2008-01-16  4:04                                   ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-15 13:05                                 ` Carsten Otte
2008-01-16  4:22                                   ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-16 14:29                                     ` [rft] updated xip patch rollup Nick Piggin
2008-01-17 10:24                                       ` Carsten Otte
2008-01-10 20:23                           ` [rfc][patch 1/4] include: add callbacks to toggle reference counting for VM_MIXEDMAP pages Jared Hulbert
2008-01-11  8:32                             ` Carsten Otte
2008-01-10  0:20                       ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-10  8:06                         ` Carsten Otte
2008-01-09 15:14                     ` [rfc][patch 2/4] mm: introduce VM_MIXEDMAP Carsten Otte, Jared Hulbert, Carsten Otte
2008-01-09 15:14                     ` [rfc][patch 3/4] Convert XIP to support non-struct page backed memory Carsten Otte, Nick Piggin
2008-01-09 15:14                     ` [rfc][patch 4/4] s390: remove struct page entries for DCSS memory segments Carsten Otte, Carsten Otte
     [not found]                 ` <1199784196.25114.11.camel@cotte.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
2008-01-08  9:35                   ` [rfc][patch 1/4] mm: introduce VM_MIXEDMAP Carsten Otte, Jared Hulbert, Carsten Otte
2008-01-08  9:35                   ` [rfc][patch 2/4] xip: support non-struct page memory Carsten Otte, Nick Piggin, Carsten Otte
2008-01-08  9:36                   ` [rfc][patch 3/4] s390: remove sturct page entries for z/VM DCSS memory segments Carsten Otte
2008-01-08  9:36                   ` [rfc][patch 4/4] s390: mixedmap_refcount_pfn implementation using list walk Carsten Otte

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