From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>,
"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>,
Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 22/23] mm: Enable PTE markers by default
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 10:25:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YmAX4IGu128Kinte@xz-m1.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YmAOn75O7zOOioXQ@cmpxchg.org>
On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 09:46:07AM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> My point was simply that for the user it might be easiest and most
> intuitive if userfaultfd and its related suboptions are 1) grouped
> together and 2) in the MM submenu.
Very reasonable request.
> Yeah it looks like there is a healthy mix ;) To add to the list:
>
> - mm/Kconfig has CONFIG_SWAP for the swapon/swapoff syscalls.
> - fs/Kconfig has CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING, which adds the flock() syscall.
> - Interestingly, fs/Kconfig has CONFIG_MEMFD_CREATE for memfd_create()
> which is implemented in mm/memfd.c.
>
> It seems reasonable to me to move the userfaultfd stuff to mm as well,
> especially when it's becoming more than just a single binary question
> on whether you want a syscall or not, and has MM-specific suboptions.
Thanks for the extra information!
Obviously as you said it's growing a little bit. I'll give it a shot later
today.
--
Peter Xu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-20 14:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-05 1:46 [PATCH v8 00/23] userfaultfd-wp: Support shmem and hugetlbfs Peter Xu
2022-04-05 1:46 ` [PATCH v8 01/23] mm: Introduce PTE_MARKER swap entry Peter Xu
2022-04-12 1:07 ` Alistair Popple
2022-04-12 19:45 ` Peter Xu
2022-04-13 0:30 ` Alistair Popple
2022-04-13 13:44 ` Peter Xu
2022-04-19 8:25 ` Alistair Popple
2022-04-19 19:44 ` Peter Xu
2022-04-05 1:48 ` [PATCH v8 02/23] mm: Teach core mm about pte markers Peter Xu
2022-04-12 1:22 ` Alistair Popple
2022-04-12 19:53 ` Peter Xu
2022-04-05 1:48 ` [PATCH v8 03/23] mm: Check against orig_pte for finish_fault() Peter Xu
2022-04-12 2:05 ` Alistair Popple
2022-04-12 19:54 ` Peter Xu
2022-04-13 14:03 ` Marek Szyprowski
2022-04-13 16:43 ` Peter Xu
2022-04-14 7:51 ` Marek Szyprowski
2022-04-14 16:30 ` Peter Xu
2022-04-14 20:57 ` Andrew Morton
2022-04-14 21:08 ` Peter Xu
2022-04-15 14:21 ` Guenter Roeck
2022-04-15 14:41 ` Peter Xu
2022-04-05 1:48 ` [PATCH v8 04/23] mm/uffd: PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP Peter Xu
2022-04-06 1:41 ` kernel test robot
2022-04-05 1:48 ` [PATCH v8 05/23] mm/shmem: Take care of UFFDIO_COPY_MODE_WP Peter Xu
2022-04-05 1:48 ` [PATCH v8 06/23] mm/shmem: Handle uffd-wp special pte in page fault handler Peter Xu
2022-05-11 16:30 ` David Hildenbrand
2022-05-12 16:34 ` Peter Xu
2022-04-05 1:48 ` [PATCH v8 07/23] mm/shmem: Persist uffd-wp bit across zapping for file-backed Peter Xu
2022-04-05 1:48 ` [PATCH v8 08/23] mm/shmem: Allow uffd wr-protect none pte for file-backed mem Peter Xu
2022-04-05 1:48 ` [PATCH v8 09/23] mm/shmem: Allows file-back mem to be uffd wr-protected on thps Peter Xu
2022-04-05 1:48 ` [PATCH v8 10/23] mm/shmem: Handle uffd-wp during fork() Peter Xu
2022-04-06 6:16 ` kernel test robot
2022-04-06 12:18 ` Peter Xu
2022-04-06 12:18 ` Peter Xu
2022-04-05 1:48 ` [PATCH v8 11/23] mm/hugetlb: Introduce huge pte version of uffd-wp helpers Peter Xu
2022-04-05 1:49 ` [PATCH v8 12/23] mm/hugetlb: Hook page faults for uffd write protection Peter Xu
2022-04-05 1:49 ` [PATCH v8 13/23] mm/hugetlb: Take care of UFFDIO_COPY_MODE_WP Peter Xu
2022-04-05 1:49 ` [PATCH v8 14/23] mm/hugetlb: Handle UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT Peter Xu
2022-04-05 1:49 ` [PATCH v8 15/23] mm/hugetlb: Handle pte markers in page faults Peter Xu
2022-04-06 13:37 ` kernel test robot
2022-04-06 15:02 ` Peter Xu
2022-04-06 15:02 ` Peter Xu
2022-04-05 1:49 ` [PATCH v8 16/23] mm/hugetlb: Allow uffd wr-protect none ptes Peter Xu
2022-04-05 1:49 ` [PATCH v8 17/23] mm/hugetlb: Only drop uffd-wp special pte if required Peter Xu
2022-04-05 1:49 ` [PATCH v8 18/23] mm/hugetlb: Handle uffd-wp during fork() Peter Xu
2022-04-05 1:49 ` [PATCH v8 19/23] mm/khugepaged: Don't recycle vma pgtable if uffd-wp registered Peter Xu
2022-04-05 1:49 ` [PATCH v8 20/23] mm/pagemap: Recognize uffd-wp bit for shmem/hugetlbfs Peter Xu
2022-04-05 1:49 ` [PATCH v8 21/23] mm/uffd: Enable write protection for shmem & hugetlbfs Peter Xu
2022-04-05 1:49 ` [PATCH v8 22/23] mm: Enable PTE markers by default Peter Xu
2022-04-19 15:13 ` Johannes Weiner
2022-04-19 19:59 ` Peter Xu
2022-04-19 20:14 ` Johannes Weiner
2022-04-19 20:28 ` Peter Xu
2022-04-19 21:24 ` Johannes Weiner
2022-04-19 22:01 ` Peter Xu
2022-04-20 13:46 ` Johannes Weiner
2022-04-20 14:25 ` Peter Xu [this message]
2022-04-05 1:49 ` [PATCH v8 23/23] selftests/uffd: Enable uffd-wp for shmem/hugetlbfs Peter Xu
2022-04-05 22:16 ` [PATCH v8 00/23] userfaultfd-wp: Support shmem and hugetlbfs Andrew Morton
2022-04-05 22:42 ` Peter Xu
2022-04-05 22:49 ` Andrew Morton
2022-04-05 23:02 ` Peter Xu
2022-04-05 23:08 ` Andrew Morton
2022-05-10 19:05 ` Andrew Morton
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