From: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
To: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>, Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>,
dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, Tony Zhu <tony.zhu@intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/17] mm: export access_remote_vm() symbol
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2023 17:50:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y7Rq0WRc4p3lCkjk@lucifer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y7RpuqbTAM11wVQG@lucifer>
On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 05:45:30PM +0000, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> Can you explain what use case you have for exporting this? Currently this is
> only used by procfs.
>
Ugh I hit send too soon ! I see you've explained the _why_ (i.e. idxd). The
other two points remain, however.
> Additionally, it relies on a reference count being held on the mm which seems a
> little risky exposing to a driver.
>
> Is there a reason you can't use access_process_vm() which is exported and
> additionally handles the refrencing?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-03 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-03 16:34 [PATCH 00/17] Enable DSA 2.0 Event Log and completion record faulting features Fenghua Yu
2023-01-03 16:34 ` [PATCH 01/17] dmaengine: idxd: make misc interrupt one shot Fenghua Yu
2023-01-03 16:34 ` [PATCH 02/17] dmaengine: idxd: add event log size sysfs attribute Fenghua Yu
2023-01-03 16:34 ` [PATCH 03/17] dmaengine: idxd: setup event log configuration Fenghua Yu
2023-01-03 16:34 ` [PATCH 04/17] dmaengine: idxd: add interrupt handling for event log Fenghua Yu
2023-01-03 16:34 ` [PATCH 05/17] dmanegine: idxd: add debugfs for event log dump Fenghua Yu
2023-01-03 16:34 ` [PATCH 06/17] dmaengine: idxd: add per DSA wq workqueue for processing cr faults Fenghua Yu
2023-01-03 16:34 ` [PATCH 07/17] dmaengine: idxd: create kmem cache for event log fault items Fenghua Yu
2023-01-03 16:34 ` [PATCH 08/17] iommu: expose iommu_sva_find() to common header Fenghua Yu
2023-01-03 16:34 ` [PATCH 09/17] mm: export access_remote_vm() symbol Fenghua Yu
2023-01-03 17:45 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2023-01-03 17:50 ` Lorenzo Stoakes [this message]
2023-01-03 19:20 ` Yu, Fenghua
2023-01-03 20:13 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2023-01-04 5:06 ` Yu, Fenghua
2023-01-04 6:12 ` Alistair Popple
2023-01-04 19:00 ` Yu, Fenghua
2023-01-04 20:00 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2023-01-04 19:56 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2023-01-04 21:05 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2023-01-04 23:57 ` Alistair Popple
2023-01-05 3:08 ` Yu, Fenghua
2023-01-05 3:22 ` Alistair Popple
2023-01-05 20:58 ` Yu, Fenghua
2023-01-05 21:04 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2023-01-05 7:26 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2023-01-08 17:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-03-01 23:39 ` Fenghua Yu
2023-01-03 16:34 ` [PATCH 10/17] dmaengine: idxd: process user page faults for completion record Fenghua Yu
2023-01-03 16:34 ` [PATCH 11/17] dmaengine: idxd: add descs_completed field " Fenghua Yu
2023-01-03 16:35 ` [PATCH 12/17] dmaengine: idxd: process batch descriptor completion record faults Fenghua Yu
2023-01-03 16:35 ` [PATCH 13/17] dmaengine: idxd: add per file user counters for " Fenghua Yu
2023-01-03 16:35 ` [PATCH 14/17] dmaengine: idxd: add a device to represent the file opened Fenghua Yu
2023-01-03 16:35 ` [PATCH 15/17] dmaengine: idxd: expose fault counters to sysfs Fenghua Yu
2023-01-03 16:35 ` [PATCH 16/17] dmaengine: idxd: add pid to exported sysfs attribute for opened file Fenghua Yu
2023-01-03 16:35 ` [PATCH 17/17] dmaengine: idxd: add per wq PRS disable Fenghua Yu
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