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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Cc: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>,
	Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
	Alexey Klimov <aklimov@redhat.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmap(): don't allow invalid pages
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 02:50:51 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YfC3C5MiyKzSX4Sg@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f85b3cac-29e7-4179-e078-fd859040c294@arm.com>

On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 01:28:14PM +0000, Robin Murphy wrote:
> Is it page_to_pfn() guaranteed to work without blowing up if page is invalid
> in the first place? Looking at the CONFIG_SPARSEMEM case I'm not sure that's
> true...

Something that all the ARM people weighing in on this don't understand
is that basically nobody uses SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP.
So all this complicated code to do page_to_pfn() is never tested.
Real users all do a simple subtraction and so the simple pfn_valid()
works fine.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-01-26  2:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-18 23:52 [PATCH] vmap(): don't allow invalid pages Yury Norov
2022-01-19  0:51 ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-19  6:17   ` Anshuman Khandual
2022-01-19 17:22     ` Yury Norov
2022-01-20  3:37       ` Anshuman Khandual
2022-01-20  4:27         ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-21  2:56         ` Yury Norov
2022-01-19 11:16 ` Mark Rutland
2022-01-19 17:00   ` Yury Norov
2022-01-19 18:06     ` Mark Rutland
2022-01-19 13:28 ` Robin Murphy
2022-01-19 16:27   ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-19 17:54     ` Russell King (Oracle)
2022-01-19 18:01       ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-19 18:57         ` Russell King (Oracle)
2022-01-19 19:35           ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-19 22:38             ` Russell King (Oracle)
2022-01-19 18:43     ` Robin Murphy
2022-01-19 19:12       ` Russell King (Oracle)
2022-01-20 12:22         ` Robin Murphy
2022-01-20 13:03           ` Russell King (Oracle)
2022-01-20 16:37             ` Robin Murphy
2022-01-20 16:54               ` Russell King (Oracle)
2022-01-20 19:04                 ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-21  5:26               ` Yury Norov
2022-01-26  2:50   ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]

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