From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Kanoj Sarcar <kanojsarcar@yahoo.com>,
Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>, Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>,
general@lists.openfabrics.org, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 9] mmu notifier #v12
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:46:49 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47FBE7C9.9000701@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <patchbomb.1207669443@duo.random>
Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Note that mmu_notifier_unregister may also fail with -EINTR if there are
> signal pending or the system runs out of vmalloc space or physical memory,
> only exit_mmap guarantees that any kernel module can be unloaded in presence
> of an oom condition.
>
>
That's unusual. What happens to the notifier? Suppose I destroy a vm
without exiting the process, what happens if it fires?
--
Any sufficiently difficult bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>, Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Kanoj Sarcar <kanojsarcar@yahoo.com>,
Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>,
general@lists.openfabrics.org, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Subject: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 0 of 9] mmu notifier #v12
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:46:49 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47FBE7C9.9000701@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <patchbomb.1207669443@duo.random>
Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Note that mmu_notifier_unregister may also fail with -EINTR if there are
> signal pending or the system runs out of vmalloc space or physical memory,
> only exit_mmap guarantees that any kernel module can be unloaded in presence
> of an oom condition.
>
>
That's unusual. What happens to the notifier? Suppose I destroy a vm
without exiting the process, what happens if it fires?
--
Any sufficiently difficult bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Kanoj Sarcar <kanojsarcar@yahoo.com>,
Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>, Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>,
general@lists.openfabrics.org, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 9] mmu notifier #v12
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:46:49 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47FBE7C9.9000701@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <patchbomb.1207669443@duo.random>
Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Note that mmu_notifier_unregister may also fail with -EINTR if there are
> signal pending or the system runs out of vmalloc space or physical memory,
> only exit_mmap guarantees that any kernel module can be unloaded in presence
> of an oom condition.
>
>
That's unusual. What happens to the notifier? Suppose I destroy a vm
without exiting the process, what happens if it fires?
--
Any sufficiently difficult bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
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2008-04-08 15:44 [PATCH 0 of 9] mmu notifier #v12 Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-08 15:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-08 15:44 ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-08 15:44 ` [PATCH 1 of 9] Lock the entire mm to prevent any mmu related operation to happen Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-08 15:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-08 15:44 ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-16 16:33 ` Robin Holt
2008-04-16 16:33 ` Robin Holt
2008-04-16 16:33 ` [ofa-general] " Robin Holt
2008-04-16 18:35 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-16 18:35 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-16 18:35 ` [ofa-general] " Christoph Lameter
2008-04-16 19:02 ` Robin Holt
2008-04-16 19:02 ` Robin Holt
2008-04-16 19:02 ` Robin Holt
2008-04-16 19:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-16 19:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-16 19:15 ` [ofa-general] " Christoph Lameter
2008-04-17 11:14 ` Robin Holt
2008-04-17 11:14 ` Robin Holt
2008-04-17 11:14 ` [ofa-general] " Robin Holt
2008-04-17 15:51 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-17 15:51 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-17 16:36 ` Robin Holt
2008-04-17 16:36 ` Robin Holt
2008-04-17 17:14 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-17 17:14 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-17 17:14 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-17 17:25 ` Robin Holt
2008-04-17 17:25 ` Robin Holt
2008-04-17 17:25 ` [ofa-general] " Robin Holt
2008-04-17 19:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-17 19:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-17 22:16 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-17 22:16 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-17 22:16 ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-22 5:06 ` Rusty Russell
2008-04-22 5:06 ` Rusty Russell
2008-04-22 5:06 ` Rusty Russell
2008-04-25 16:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-25 16:56 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-25 17:04 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-25 17:04 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-25 19:25 ` Robin Holt
2008-04-25 19:25 ` Robin Holt
2008-04-25 19:25 ` [ofa-general] " Robin Holt
2008-04-26 0:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-26 0:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-26 0:57 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-08 15:44 ` [PATCH 2 of 9] Core of mmu notifiers Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-08 15:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-08 15:44 ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-08 16:26 ` Robin Holt
2008-04-08 16:26 ` Robin Holt
2008-04-08 16:26 ` [ofa-general] " Robin Holt
2008-04-08 17:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-08 17:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-14 19:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-14 19:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-14 19:57 ` [ofa-general] " Christoph Lameter
2008-04-14 19:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-14 19:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-14 19:59 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-08 15:44 ` [PATCH 3 of 9] Moves all mmu notifier methods outside the PT lock (first and not last Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-08 15:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-08 15:44 ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-14 19:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-14 19:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-14 19:57 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-08 15:44 ` [PATCH 4 of 9] Move the tlb flushing into free_pgtables. The conversion of the locks Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-08 15:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-08 15:44 ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-08 15:44 ` [PATCH 5 of 9] The conversion to a rwsem allows callbacks during rmap traversal Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-08 15:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-08 15:44 ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-08 15:44 ` [PATCH 6 of 9] We no longer abort unmapping in unmap vmas because we can reschedule while Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-08 15:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-08 15:44 ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-08 15:44 ` [PATCH 7 of 9] Convert the anon_vma spinlock to a rw semaphore. This allows concurrent Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-08 15:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-08 15:44 ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-08 15:44 ` [PATCH 8 of 9] XPMEM would have used sys_madvise() except that madvise_dontneed() Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-08 15:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-08 15:44 ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-08 15:44 ` [PATCH 9 of 9] This patch adds a lock ordering rule to avoid a potential deadlock when Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-08 15:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-08 15:44 ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-08 21:46 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-04-08 21:46 ` [PATCH 0 of 9] mmu notifier #v12 Avi Kivity
2008-04-08 21:46 ` [ofa-general] " Avi Kivity
2008-04-08 22:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-08 22:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-08 22:06 ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-09 13:17 ` Robin Holt
2008-04-09 13:17 ` Robin Holt
2008-04-09 13:17 ` [ofa-general] " Robin Holt
2008-04-09 14:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-09 14:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-09 14:44 ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-09 18:55 ` Robin Holt
2008-04-09 18:55 ` Robin Holt
2008-04-09 18:55 ` [ofa-general] " Robin Holt
2008-04-22 7:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-22 7:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-22 7:20 ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-22 12:00 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-22 12:00 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-22 12:00 ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-22 13:01 ` Robin Holt
2008-04-22 13:01 ` Robin Holt
2008-04-22 13:01 ` [ofa-general] " Robin Holt
2008-04-22 13:21 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-22 13:21 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-22 13:21 ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-22 13:36 ` Robin Holt
2008-04-22 13:36 ` Robin Holt
2008-04-22 13:36 ` [ofa-general] " Robin Holt
2008-04-22 13:48 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-22 13:48 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-22 13:48 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-22 15:26 ` Robin Holt
2008-04-22 15:26 ` Robin Holt
2008-04-14 23:09 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-14 23:09 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-14 23:09 ` [ofa-general] " Christoph Lameter
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