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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
To: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, davem@davemloft.net, arnd@arndb.de
Cc: kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, mhocko@suse.com,
	ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com, dave.jiang@intel.com,
	mgorman@techsingularity.net, willy@infradead.org,
	hughd@google.com, minchan@kernel.org, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
	shli@fb.com, mingo@kernel.org, jglisse@redhat.com, me@tobin.cc,
	anthony.yznaga@oracle.com, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, Khalid Aziz <khalid@gonehiking.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 02/11] mm, swap: Add infrastructure for saving page metadata on swap
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 11:35:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d807ba68-decd-e195-f607-ef6962e40c96@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4a766f6d-ba96-7963-b367-7214eab7e307@oracle.com>

On 03/05/2018 11:29 AM, Khalid Aziz wrote:
> ADI data is per page data and is held in the spare bits in the RAM. It
> is loaded into the cache when data is loaded from RAM and flushed out to
> spare bits in the RAM when data is flushed from cache. Sparc allows one
> tag for each ADI block size of data and ADI block size is same as
> cacheline size.

Which does not square with your earlier assertion "ADI data is per page
data".  It's per-cacheline data.  Right?

> When a page is loaded into RAM from swap space, all of
> the associated ADI data for the page must also be loaded into the RAM,
> so it looks like page level data and storing it in page level software
> data structure makes sense. I am open to other suggestions though.

Do you have a way to tell that data is not being thrown away?  Like if
the ADI metadata is different for two different cachelines within a
single page?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-05 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-21 17:15 [PATCH v12 00/11] Application Data Integrity feature introduced by SPARC M7 Khalid Aziz
2018-02-21 17:15 ` Khalid Aziz
2018-02-21 17:15 ` [PATCH v12 01/11] signals, sparc: Add signal codes for ADI violations Khalid Aziz
2018-02-21 20:58   ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-02-21 17:15 ` [PATCH v12 02/11] mm, swap: Add infrastructure for saving page metadata on swap Khalid Aziz
2018-03-05 19:20   ` Dave Hansen
2018-03-05 19:20     ` Dave Hansen
2018-03-05 19:29     ` Khalid Aziz
2018-03-05 19:29       ` Khalid Aziz
2018-03-05 19:35       ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2018-03-05 19:35         ` Dave Hansen
2018-03-05 20:28         ` Khalid Aziz
2018-03-05 20:28           ` Khalid Aziz
2018-03-05 21:04           ` Dave Hansen
2018-03-05 21:04             ` Dave Hansen
2018-03-05 21:14             ` Khalid Aziz
2018-03-05 21:14               ` Khalid Aziz
2018-03-06 22:47   ` Andrew Morton
2018-03-06 22:47     ` Andrew Morton
2018-03-18 15:08 ` [PATCH v12 00/11] Application Data Integrity feature introduced by SPARC M7 David Miller
2018-03-18 15:08   ` David Miller
2018-03-19 15:19   ` Khalid Aziz
2018-03-19 15:19     ` Khalid Aziz

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