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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Dominik Dingel <dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
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	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
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	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>,
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	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com>,
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	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux390@de.ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] mm: introduce mm_forbids_zeropage function
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:49:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141022124930.d723008daf5465be0a761b82@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141022214552.0c954692@BR9TG4T3.de.ibm.com>

On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 21:45:52 +0200 Dominik Dingel <dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> > > +#ifndef mm_forbids_zeropage
> > > +#define mm_forbids_zeropage(X)  (0)
> > > +#endif
> > 
> > Can we document this please?  What it does, why it does it.  We should
> > also specify precisely which arch header file is responsible for
> > defining mm_forbids_zeropage.
> > 
> 
> I will add a comment like:
> 
> /*
>  * To prevent common memory management code establishing
>  * a zero page mapping on a read fault.
>  * This function should be implemented within <asm/pgtable.h>.

s/function should be implemented/macro should be defined/

>  * s390 does this to prevent multiplexing of hardware bits
>  * related to the physical page in case of virtualization.
>  */
> 
> Okay?

Looks great, thanks.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-22 19:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-22 11:09 [PATCH v3 0/4] mm: new function to forbid zeropage mappings for a process Dominik Dingel
2014-10-22 11:09 ` [PATCH 1/4] s390/mm: recfactor global pgste updates Dominik Dingel
2014-10-22 11:09 ` [PATCH 2/4] mm: introduce mm_forbids_zeropage function Dominik Dingel
2014-10-22 13:59   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-10-22 19:22   ` Andrew Morton
2014-10-22 19:45     ` Dominik Dingel
2014-10-22 19:49       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2014-10-22 11:09 ` [PATCH 3/4] s390/mm: prevent and break zero page mappings in case of storage keys Dominik Dingel
2014-10-22 14:00   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-10-22 11:09 ` [PATCH 4/4] s390/mm: disable KSM for storage key enabled pages Dominik Dingel
2014-10-22 14:00   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-10-22 13:59 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] mm: new function to forbid zeropage mappings for a process Paolo Bonzini
2014-10-23 10:19 ` Martin Schwidefsky
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-10-22  8:30 [PATCH v2 " Dominik Dingel
2014-10-22  8:30 ` [PATCH 2/4] mm: introduce mm_forbids_zeropage function Dominik Dingel

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