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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH UPDATE] x86: ignore spurious faults
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:54:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <479A0632.9090205@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080125153032.GE11846@elte.hu>

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> thanks, applied.
>
> it would be nice to expose this ability of the architecture to the core 
> Linux kernel mprotect code as well, and let it skip on a TLB flush when 
> doing a RO->RW transition.

The usermode fault handler already effectively does this; this patch 
just does it for kernel mode as well.  I don't know if mprotect takes 
advantage of this.

>  It could speed up valgrind and the other 
> mprotect() users i guess? [and UML too perhaps]
>   

Not valgrind (it doesn't rely on mmap protections), but electric fence 
perhaps.

    J


  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-25 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-24  0:05 [PATCH] x86: ignore spurious faults Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-24  0:18 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-01-24  0:26   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-24  0:28   ` [PATCH UPDATE] " Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-24 19:14     ` Matt Mackall
2008-01-24 19:21       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-24 23:41         ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-25  0:26           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-25  7:36             ` Keir Fraser
2008-01-25  8:15               ` Jan Beulich
2008-01-25  8:38                 ` Nick Piggin
2008-01-25  9:11                   ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-25  9:18                     ` Keir Fraser
2008-01-25  9:51                       ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-25 10:19                       ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-25 13:17                         ` Keir Fraser
2008-01-25  9:18                   ` Jan Beulich
2008-01-25 15:30     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-25 15:54       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2008-01-25 18:08         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-25 18:39           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-24  6:49 ` [PATCH] " Andi Kleen
2008-01-24  7:02   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-24  7:11     ` Andi Kleen

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