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From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>,
	"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>,
	"tytso@mit.edu" <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Sealed memfd & no-fault mmap
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 14:38:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210429183836.GF8339@xz-x1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210429154807.hptls4vnmq2svuea@box>

On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 06:48:07PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > Side note: this will only ever work for non-shared mappings.
> 
> I think it's show-stopper for the use-case, no? IIUC, the mappings is used
> for communication between a compositor and a client and has to be shared.

Yes I had the same doubt..  Besides, we probably don't want to convert all
VM_FAULT_SIGBUS to fallback to anonymous pages, as I see that vmf_error()
converts mostly everything besides -ENOMEM to VM_FAULT_SIGBUS.  Thanks,

-- 
Peter Xu



  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-29 18:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-27  8:24 Sealed memfd & no-fault mmap Simon Ser
2021-04-27 16:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-04-29 15:48   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-04-29 18:38     ` Peter Xu [this message]
2021-05-04  9:29       ` Simon Ser
2021-05-04 16:08         ` Linus Torvalds
2021-05-05 10:21           ` Simon Ser
2021-05-05 18:42             ` Linus Torvalds
2021-05-28 17:07               ` Lin, Ming
2021-05-29  1:03                 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-05-29  7:31                   ` Lin, Ming
2021-05-29 15:44                     ` Linus Torvalds
2021-05-29 20:15                       ` Hugh Dickins
2021-05-29 23:36                         ` Ming Lin
2021-05-31 21:13                           ` Ming Lin
2021-06-01  6:24                             ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-01  7:08                               ` Ming Lin
2021-06-03 13:01                                 ` Simon Ser
2021-06-03 20:07                                   ` Ming Lin
2021-06-03 20:49                                     ` Simon Ser
2021-06-03 13:14                         ` Simon Ser
2021-06-03 13:57                           ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-06-03 14:48                             ` Simon Ser

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