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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Qiaowei Ren <qiaowei.ren@intel.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 02/10] x86, mpx: add MPX specific mmap interface
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 13:28:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53A88DE4.8050107@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrXYZZiZsDiUvvZd0636+qHP9a0sHTN6wt_ZKjvLaeeBzw@mail.gmail.com>

On 06/23/2014 01:06 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Can the new vm_operation "name" be use for this?  The magic "always
> written to core dumps" feature might need to be reconsidered.

One thing I'd like to avoid is an MPX vma getting merged with a non-MPX
vma.  I don't see any code to prevent two VMAs with different
vm_ops->names from getting merged.  That seems like a bit of a design
oversight for ->name.  Right?

Thinking out loud a bit... There are also some more complicated but more
performant cleanup mechanisms that I'd like to go after in the future.
Given a page, we might want to figure out if it is an MPX page or not.
I wonder if we'll ever collide with some other user of vm_ops->name.  It
looks fairly narrowly used at the moment, but would this keep us from
putting these pages on, say, a tmpfs mount?  Doesn't look that way at
the moment.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-23 20:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1403084656-27284-1-git-send-email-qiaowei.ren@intel.com>
2014-06-18 14:41 ` [PATCH v6 00/10] Intel MPX support Dave Hansen
     [not found] ` <1403084656-27284-3-git-send-email-qiaowei.ren@intel.com>
2014-06-23 19:49   ` [PATCH v6 02/10] x86, mpx: add MPX specific mmap interface Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-23 20:03     ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-23 20:06       ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-23 20:28         ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2014-06-23 21:04           ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-24  5:53             ` Ren, Qiaowei
2014-06-24 23:55               ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-25  1:40                 ` Ren, Qiaowei
2014-06-25 21:04                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-25 21:05                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-25 21:45                       ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-26 22:19                         ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-26 22:58                           ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-26 23:15                             ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-27  0:19                               ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-27  0:26                                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-27 17:34                                   ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-27 17:42                                     ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-27 18:57                                       ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-25 21:43                     ` Dave Hansen
2014-06-24  2:53     ` Ren, Qiaowei

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