From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCHv2 1/2] Add mm flag to control THP
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 21:09:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140117200923.GA15234@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1bc8f911363af956b37d8ea415d734f3191f1c78.1389905087.git.athorlton@sgi.com>
On 01/16, Alex Thorlton wrote:
>
> + case PR_GET_THP_DISABLE:
> + error = put_user(test_bit(MMF_THP_DISABLE,
> + &me->mm->flags),
> + (int __user *) arg2);
> + break;
Do we really want put_user?
error = test_bit(MMF_THP_DISABLE);
can work too and looks simpler (and to me simpler to use in userspace).
PR_GET_DUMPABLE works this way.
Oleg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-17 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-16 21:01 [RFC PATCHv2 1/2] Add mm flag to control THP Alex Thorlton
2014-01-16 21:01 ` [RFC PATCHv2 2/2] Change khugepaged to respect MMF_THP_DISABLE flag Alex Thorlton
2014-01-17 20:34 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-01-17 22:58 ` Alex Thorlton
2014-01-18 23:49 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-01-20 19:58 ` Alex Thorlton
2014-01-20 20:15 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-01-20 20:41 ` Alex Thorlton
2014-01-22 17:45 ` [PATCH 0/2] mm->def_flags cleanups (Was: Change khugepaged to respect MMF_THP_DISABLE flag) Oleg Nesterov
2014-01-22 17:46 ` [PATCH 1/2] exec: kill the unnecessary mm->def_flags setting in load_elf_binary() Oleg Nesterov
2014-01-22 17:46 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: thp: kill the bogus ->def_flags check in hugepage_madvise() Oleg Nesterov
2014-01-22 20:16 ` Hugh Dickins
2014-01-23 16:43 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-01-24 14:19 ` Gerald Schaefer
2014-01-22 18:11 ` [PATCH 0/2] mm->def_flags cleanups (Was: Change khugepaged to respect MMF_THP_DISABLE flag) Oleg Nesterov
2014-01-22 18:40 ` Alex Thorlton
2014-01-22 19:25 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-01-22 19:43 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-01-22 20:02 ` Alex Thorlton
2014-01-23 16:47 ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-01-17 19:54 ` [RFC PATCHv2 1/2] Add mm flag to control THP Andy Lutomirski
2014-01-17 22:54 ` Alex Thorlton
2014-01-17 20:09 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2014-01-17 22:52 ` Alex Thorlton
2014-01-18 23:41 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-01-20 17:26 ` Alex Thorlton
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