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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, willy@infradead.org,
	longpeng2@huawei.com, arnd@arndb.de, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com,
	david@redhat.com, rppt@kernel.org, surenb@google.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Add support for shared PTEs across processes
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:41:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eb696699-0138-33c5-ad47-bfca7f6e9079@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1642526745.git.khalid.aziz@oracle.com>

On 1/18/22 1:19 PM, Khalid Aziz wrote:
> - Starting address must be aligned to pgdir size (512GB on x86_64)

How does this work on systems with 5-level paging where a top-level page
table entry covers 256TB?  Is the alignment requirement 512GB or 256TB?
 How does userspace figure out which alignment requirement it is subject to?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-01-18 21:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-18 21:19 [RFC PATCH 0/6] Add support for shared PTEs across processes Khalid Aziz
2022-01-18 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 1/6] mm: Add new system calls mshare, mshare_unlink Khalid Aziz
2022-01-18 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 2/6] mm: Add msharefs filesystem Khalid Aziz
2022-01-18 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 3/6] mm: Add read for msharefs Khalid Aziz
2022-01-18 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 4/6] mm: implement mshare_unlink syscall Khalid Aziz
2022-01-18 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 5/6] mm: Add locking to msharefs syscalls Khalid Aziz
2022-01-18 21:19 ` [RFC PATCH 6/6] mm: Add basic page table sharing using mshare Khalid Aziz
2022-01-18 21:41 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2022-01-18 21:46   ` [RFC PATCH 0/6] Add support for shared PTEs across processes Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-18 22:47     ` Khalid Aziz
2022-01-18 22:06 ` Dave Hansen
2022-01-18 22:52   ` Khalid Aziz
2022-01-19 11:38 ` Mark Hemment
2022-01-19 17:02   ` Khalid Aziz
2022-01-20 12:49     ` Mark Hemment
2022-01-20 19:15       ` Khalid Aziz
2022-01-24 15:15         ` Mark Hemment
2022-01-24 15:27           ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-24 22:20           ` Khalid Aziz
2022-01-21  1:08 ` Barry Song
2022-01-21  2:13   ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-21  7:35     ` Barry Song
2022-01-21 14:47       ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-21 16:41         ` Khalid Aziz
2022-01-22  1:39           ` Longpeng (Mike, Cloud Infrastructure Service Product Dept.)
2022-01-22  1:41             ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-22 10:18               ` Thomas Schoebel-Theuer
2022-01-22 16:09                 ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-22 11:31 ` Mike Rapoport
2022-01-22 18:29   ` Andy Lutomirski
2022-01-24 18:48   ` Khalid Aziz
2022-01-24 19:45     ` Andy Lutomirski
2022-01-24 22:30       ` Khalid Aziz
2022-01-24 23:16         ` Andy Lutomirski
2022-01-24 23:44           ` Khalid Aziz
2022-01-25 11:42 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-01-25 12:09   ` William Kucharski
2022-01-25 13:18     ` David Hildenbrand
2022-01-25 14:01       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-01-25 13:23   ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-25 13:59     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-01-25 14:09       ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-25 18:57         ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-01-25 18:59           ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-26  4:04             ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-26 10:16               ` David Hildenbrand
2022-01-26 13:38                 ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-26 13:55                   ` David Hildenbrand
2022-01-26 14:12                     ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-26 14:30                       ` David Hildenbrand
2022-01-26 14:12                   ` Mike Rapoport
2022-01-26 13:42               ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-01-26 14:18                 ` Mike Rapoport
2022-01-26 17:33                   ` Khalid Aziz

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