From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
lsf10-pc@lists.linuxfoundation.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Lsf10-pc] Current MM topics for LSF10/MM Summit 8-9 August in Boston
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:31:41 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C1F77CD.40509@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100621142952.GZ5787@random.random>
On 06/21/2010 05:29 PM, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 05:18:56PM +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>
>> Avi did the fix. We discussed using MADV_DONTFORK for that, but calling
>> madvise() from kernel deemed to be messy.
>>
> Agree that calling madvise looks messy. It's possible to set
> VM_DONTCOPY under mmap_sem write mode and it'll work as well.
>
But we aren't guaranteed to get our own vma, yes?
> But surely we can as well keep this quicker fix until the fork vs gup
> race is fixed, and back it out later.
>
Right.
Note kvm shouldn't be calling do_mmap() in any case. I let that in
because it was simple and because we had a userspace interface relying
on that, but that's no longer the case, so I'll make that page kernel owned.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-21 14:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-16 20:50 Current topics for LSF10/MM Summit 8-9 August in Boston James Bottomley
2010-06-17 6:35 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2010-06-17 13:27 ` [Lsf10-pc] " James Bottomley
2010-06-17 16:00 ` Christof Schmitt
2010-06-17 16:07 ` James Bottomley
2010-06-17 16:13 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-06-17 16:34 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-06-17 16:42 ` James Bottomley
2010-06-17 17:11 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-06-17 17:37 ` James Bottomley
2010-06-17 17:55 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-06-18 11:41 ` Christof Schmitt
2010-06-18 12:18 ` [Lsf10-pc] " J. Bruce Fields
2010-06-21 12:05 ` Current MM " Nick Piggin
2010-06-21 13:16 ` [Lsf10-pc] " Andrea Arcangeli
2010-06-21 13:22 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-06-21 14:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-06-21 14:18 ` Gleb Natapov
2010-06-21 14:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-06-21 14:31 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-06-21 14:45 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2010-06-22 3:30 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-06-21 20:00 ` David Rientjes
2010-06-21 20:13 ` James Bottomley
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