From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
luto@amacapital.net, xemul@parallels.com, mpm@selenic.com,
xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com, mtosatti@redhat.com,
kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com, sfr@canb.auug.org.au,
peterz@infradead.org, aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] [PATCH] mm: Save soft-dirty bits on swapped pages
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 00:29:14 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130807202914.GO7999@moon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130807132156.e97bbcc3d543cf88d5a0997d@linux-foundation.org>
On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 01:21:56PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > One of the problem was to find a place in pte entry where we can
> > save the _PTE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY bit while page is in swap. The
> > _PAGE_PSE was chosen for that, it doesn't intersect with swap
> > entry format stored in pte.
>
> So the implication is that if another architecture wants to support
> this (and, realistically, wants to support CRIU), that architecture
> must find a spare pte bit to implement _PTE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY. Yes?
Exactly.
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From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
luto@amacapital.net, xemul@parallels.com, mpm@selenic.com,
xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com, mtosatti@redhat.com,
kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com, sfr@canb.auug.org.au,
peterz@infradead.org, aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] [PATCH] mm: Save soft-dirty bits on swapped pages
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 00:29:14 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130807202914.GO7999@moon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130807132156.e97bbcc3d543cf88d5a0997d@linux-foundation.org>
On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 01:21:56PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > One of the problem was to find a place in pte entry where we can
> > save the _PTE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY bit while page is in swap. The
> > _PAGE_PSE was chosen for that, it doesn't intersect with swap
> > entry format stored in pte.
>
> So the implication is that if another architecture wants to support
> this (and, realistically, wants to support CRIU), that architecture
> must find a spare pte bit to implement _PTE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY. Yes?
Exactly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-07 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-30 20:41 [patch 0/2] Soft-dirty page tracker improvemens Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-07-30 20:41 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-07-30 20:41 ` [patch 1/2] [PATCH] mm: Save soft-dirty bits on swapped pages Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-07-30 20:41 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-07-31 8:16 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2013-07-31 8:16 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2013-08-01 0:51 ` Minchan Kim
2013-08-01 0:51 ` Minchan Kim
2013-08-01 5:53 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-08-01 5:53 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-08-01 6:16 ` Minchan Kim
2013-08-01 6:16 ` Minchan Kim
2013-08-01 6:28 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-08-01 6:28 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-08-01 6:37 ` Minchan Kim
2013-08-01 6:37 ` Minchan Kim
2013-08-01 6:38 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-08-01 6:38 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-08-05 1:48 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-08-05 1:48 ` Wanpeng Li
[not found] ` <51ff047d.2768310a.2fc4.340fSMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
2013-08-05 2:17 ` Minchan Kim
2013-08-05 2:17 ` Minchan Kim
2013-08-05 2:38 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-08-05 2:38 ` Wanpeng Li
[not found] ` <51ff1053.ab47310a.5d3f.566cSMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
2013-08-05 2:54 ` Minchan Kim
2013-08-05 2:54 ` Minchan Kim
2013-08-05 2:58 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-08-05 2:58 ` Wanpeng Li
[not found] ` <51ff14e9.87ef440a.1424.ffffe470SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
2013-08-05 5:43 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-08-05 5:43 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-08-07 20:21 ` Andrew Morton
2013-08-07 20:21 ` Andrew Morton
2013-08-07 20:29 ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
2013-08-07 20:29 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-08-10 17:48 ` James Bottomley
2013-08-10 17:48 ` James Bottomley
2013-07-30 20:41 ` [patch 2/2] [PATCH] mm: Save soft-dirty bits on file pages Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-07-30 20:41 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-07-31 8:16 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2013-07-31 8:16 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2013-08-07 20:28 ` Andrew Morton
2013-08-07 20:28 ` Andrew Morton
2013-08-07 20:31 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-08-07 20:31 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-08-08 14:51 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-08-12 21:57 ` Andrew Morton
2013-08-12 21:57 ` Andrew Morton
2013-08-12 22:28 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-08-12 22:28 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-08-12 22:37 ` Andrew Morton
2013-08-12 22:37 ` Andrew Morton
2013-08-13 5:02 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-08-13 5:02 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-08-13 15:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-08-13 15:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-08-13 15:37 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-08-13 15:37 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-08-13 16:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-08-13 16:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-08-13 21:28 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2013-08-13 21:28 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
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