From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
tbsaunde@tbsaunde.org, robert@ocallahan.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: check VMA flags to avoid invalid PROT_NONE NUMA balancing
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 13:52:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFwtHAT_ukyE=+s=3twW8v8QExLxpVcfEDyLihf+pn9qeA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160925184731.GA20480@lucifer>
I was kind of assuming this would go through the normal channels for
THP patches, but it's been two weeks...
Can I have an ACK from the involved people, and I'll apply it
directly.. Mel? Rik?
Linus
On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just a quick ping on this, let me know if you need anything more from me!
>
> Thanks, Lorenzo
>
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 11:54:25PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
>> The NUMA balancing logic uses an arch-specific PROT_NONE page table flag defined
>> by pte_protnone() or pmd_protnone() to mark PTEs or huge page PMDs respectively
>> as requiring balancing upon a subsequent page fault. User-defined PROT_NONE
>> memory regions which also have this flag set will not normally invoke the NUMA
>> balancing code as do_page_fault() will send a segfault to the process before
>> handle_mm_fault() is even called.
>>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-25 20:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-11 22:54 [PATCH] mm: check VMA flags to avoid invalid PROT_NONE NUMA balancing Lorenzo Stoakes
2016-09-11 22:59 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2016-09-25 18:47 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2016-09-25 20:52 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2016-09-25 22:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-25 22:34 ` Rik van Riel
2016-09-25 22:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-09-25 23:28 ` Hugh Dickins
2016-09-26 0:49 ` Rik van Riel
2016-09-26 1:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-07 10:07 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2016-10-07 15:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-10-07 16:22 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2016-10-07 18:16 ` Hugh Dickins
2016-10-07 18:26 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2016-10-10 7:47 ` Jan Kara
2016-10-10 8:28 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2016-10-10 16:37 ` Jan Kara
2016-09-26 8:19 ` Mel Gorman
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