From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-oi0-f51.google.com (mail-oi0-f51.google.com [209.85.218.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D22B76B0005 for ; Mon, 7 Mar 2016 18:35:15 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-oi0-f51.google.com with SMTP id m82so91121482oif.1 for ; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 15:35:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com (aserp1040.oracle.com. [141.146.126.69]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f8si23912obv.59.2016.03.07.15.35.15 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 07 Mar 2016 15:35:15 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] sparc64: Add support for Application Data Integrity (ADI) References: <1456951177-23579-1-git-send-email-khalid.aziz@oracle.com> <20160305.230702.1325379875282120281.davem@davemloft.net> <56DD9949.1000106@oracle.com> <20160307.115626.807716799249471744.davem@davemloft.net> <56DDC2B6.6020009@oracle.com> <56DDC3EB.8060909@oracle.com> <56DDC776.3040003@oracle.com> From: Rob Gardner Message-ID: <56DE0F9F.90801@oracle.com> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 15:32:47 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56DDC776.3040003@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Khalid Aziz , David Miller Cc: corbet@lwn.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org, dingel@linux.vnet.ibm.com, bob.picco@oracle.com, kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, aarcange@redhat.com, arnd@arndb.de, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, mhocko@suse.cz, chris.hyser@oracle.com, richard@nod.at, vbabka@suse.cz, koct9i@gmail.com, oleg@redhat.com, gthelen@google.com, jack@suse.cz, xiexiuqi@huawei.com, Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com, luto@kernel.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, bsegall@google.com, geert@linux-m68k.org, dave@stgolabs.net, adobriyan@gmail.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org On 03/07/2016 10:24 AM, Khalid Aziz wrote: > > Tags can be cleared by user by setting tag to 0. Tags are > automatically cleared by the hardware when the mapping for a virtual > address is removed from TSB (which is why swappable pages are a > problem), so kernel does not have to do it as part of clean up. > I don't understand this. The hardware isn't involved when a mapping for a virtual address is removed from the TSB, so how could it automatically clear tags? Rob -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org