From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Cc: "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@lst.de>,
"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Thomas Hellström" <thomas@shipmail.org>,
"Jerome Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com>,
"Steven Price" <steven.price@arm.com>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Thomas Hellstrom" <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] pagewalk: separate function pointers from iterator data
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 08:59:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190829065959.GA11628@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190828150514.GN914@mellanox.com>
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 03:05:19PM +0000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > @@ -1217,7 +1222,8 @@ static ssize_t clear_refs_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
> > 0, NULL, mm, 0, -1UL);
> > mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(&range);
> > }
> > - walk_page_range(0, mm->highest_vm_end, &clear_refs_walk);
> > + walk_page_range(mm, 0, mm->highest_vm_end, &clear_refs_walk_ops,
> > + &cp);
>
> Is the difference between TASK_SIZE and 'highest_vm_end' deliberate,
> or should we add a 'walk_all_pages'() mini helper for this? I see most
> of the users are using one or the other variant.
I have no idea to be honest. A walk_all_pages-like helper doesn't
seem like a bad idea, but the priority seems lower than cleaning up
all the callers using walk_page_range on a vma..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-29 7:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-28 14:19 cleanup the walk_page_range interface v2 Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-28 14:19 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm: split out a new pagewalk.h header from mm.h Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-29 9:05 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-08-29 9:16 ` Steven Price
2019-08-28 14:19 ` [PATCH 2/3] pagewalk: separate function pointers from iterator data Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-28 15:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-08-29 6:59 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2019-09-01 18:45 ` Guenter Roeck
2019-09-01 19:36 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-09-01 20:35 ` Guenter Roeck
2019-09-02 5:51 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-09-02 7:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-09-02 10:49 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-08-28 14:19 ` [PATCH 3/3] pagewalk: use lockdep_assert_held for locking validation Christoph Hellwig
2019-08-28 15:07 ` cleanup the walk_page_range interface v2 Jason Gunthorpe
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