From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
nao.horiguchi@gmail.com, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
mingo@elte.hu, Xiexiuqi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com>,
Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com>,
"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 08/12] mm: use mirrorable to switch allocate mirrored memory
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2015 11:41:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55709BEA.8030903@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55704C79.5060608@huawei.com>
On 06/04/2015 06:02 AM, Xishi Qiu wrote:
> Add a new interface in path /proc/sys/vm/mirrorable. When set to 1, it means
> we should allocate mirrored memory for both user and kernel processes.
That's a pretty dangerously short name. :)
How would this end up getting used? It seems like it would be dangerous
to use once userspace was very far along. So would the kernel set it to
1 and then let (early??) userspace set it back to 0? That would let
important userspace like /bin/init get mirrored memory without having to
actually change much in userspace.
This definitely needs some good documentation.
Also, if it's insane to turn it back *on*, maybe it should be a one-way
trip to turn off.
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Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-04 12:54 [RFC PATCH 00/12] mm: mirrored memory support for page buddy allocations Xishi Qiu
2015-06-04 12:56 ` [RFC PATCH 01/12] mm: add a new config to manage the code Xishi Qiu
2015-06-08 11:52 ` Leon Romanovsky
2015-06-08 15:14 ` Luck, Tony
2015-06-08 16:36 ` Leon Romanovsky
2015-06-09 6:44 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2015-06-09 10:10 ` Xishi Qiu
2015-06-10 3:07 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2015-06-04 12:57 ` [RFC PATCH 02/12] mm: introduce mirror_info Xishi Qiu
2015-06-04 16:57 ` Luck, Tony
2015-06-05 1:53 ` Xishi Qiu
2015-06-09 6:48 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2015-06-04 12:58 ` [RFC PATCH 03/12] mm: introduce MIGRATE_MIRROR to manage the mirrored, pages Xishi Qiu
2015-06-09 6:54 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2015-06-04 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 04/12] mm: add mirrored pages to buddy system Xishi Qiu
2015-06-04 13:00 ` [RFC PATCH 05/12] mm: introduce a new zone_stat_item NR_FREE_MIRROR_PAGES Xishi Qiu
2015-06-04 13:01 ` [RFC PATCH 06/12] mm: add free mirrored pages info Xishi Qiu
2015-06-04 13:02 ` [RFC PATCH 07/12] mm: introduce __GFP_MIRROR to allocate mirrored pages Xishi Qiu
2015-06-09 7:01 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2015-06-04 13:02 ` [RFC PATCH 08/12] mm: use mirrorable to switch allocate mirrored memory Xishi Qiu
2015-06-04 17:01 ` Luck, Tony
2015-06-04 18:41 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2015-06-05 3:13 ` Xishi Qiu
2015-06-09 7:06 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2015-06-09 10:09 ` Xishi Qiu
2015-06-10 3:09 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2015-06-12 8:05 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2015-06-04 13:03 ` [RFC PATCH 09/12] mm: enable allocate mirrored memory at boot time Xishi Qiu
2015-06-04 13:04 ` [RFC PATCH 10/12] mm: add the buddy system interface Xishi Qiu
2015-06-04 17:09 ` Luck, Tony
2015-06-05 3:14 ` Xishi Qiu
2015-06-09 7:12 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2015-06-09 10:04 ` Xishi Qiu
2015-06-10 3:06 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2015-06-10 20:40 ` Luck, Tony
2015-06-15 8:47 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2015-06-15 17:20 ` Luck, Tony
2015-06-16 0:31 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2015-06-25 9:44 ` Xishi Qiu
2015-06-25 23:54 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2015-06-26 1:43 ` Xishi Qiu
2015-06-26 8:34 ` Kamezawa Hiroyuki
2015-06-26 10:38 ` Xishi Qiu
2015-06-26 18:42 ` Luck, Tony
2015-06-04 13:04 ` [RFC PATCH 11/12] mm: add the PCP interface Xishi Qiu
2015-06-04 18:44 ` Dave Hansen
2015-06-04 13:05 ` [RFC PATCH 12/12] mm: let slab/slub/slob use mirrored memory Xishi Qiu
2015-06-04 17:14 ` Luck, Tony
2015-06-12 8:42 ` [RFC PATCH 00/12] mm: mirrored memory support for page buddy allocations Naoya Horiguchi
2015-06-12 9:09 ` Xishi Qiu
2015-06-12 19:03 ` Luck, Tony
2015-06-15 0:25 ` Naoya Horiguchi
2015-06-16 7:53 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-06-16 8:17 ` Xishi Qiu
2015-06-16 9:46 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-06-18 1:23 ` Xishi Qiu
2015-06-18 5:58 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-06-18 9:37 ` Xishi Qiu
2015-06-18 9:55 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-06-18 20:33 ` Luck, Tony
2015-06-19 1:36 ` Xishi Qiu
2015-06-19 18:42 ` Luck, Tony
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