From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
dan.j.williams@intel.com, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: do not assume PTE is writable after follow_pfn
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2021 08:19:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210209081951.GA1704636@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210208232625.GA4718@ziepe.ca>
On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 07:26:25PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > page_mkclean() has some technique to make the notifier have the right
> > > size without becoming entangled in the PTL locks..
> >
> > Right. I guess it's because dax doesn't have "struct page*" on the
> > back, so it
>
> It doesn't? I thought DAX cases did?
File system DAX has a struct page, device DAX does not. Which means
everything using iomap should have a page available, but i'm adding
Dan as he should know the details :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-09 8:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-05 10:32 [PATCH 0/2] KVM: do not assume PTE is writable after follow_pfn Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-05 10:32 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: provide a sane PTE walking API for modules Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-05 13:49 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-02-08 17:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-08 18:18 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-09 8:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-09 9:19 ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-05 10:32 ` [PATCH 2/2] KVM: do not assume PTE is writable after follow_pfn Paolo Bonzini
2021-02-05 15:43 ` kernel test robot
2021-02-05 17:41 ` kernel test robot
2021-02-05 18:14 ` [PATCH 0/2] " Peter Xu
2021-02-08 18:51 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-02-08 22:02 ` Peter Xu
2021-02-08 23:26 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-02-09 0:23 ` Peter Xu
2021-02-09 8:19 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2021-02-09 10:02 ` Joao Martins
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