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From: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>,
	Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>,
	Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
	Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>,
	linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Convert some gmap functions to use folios
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 16:56:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240404165636.3d8eb24f@p-imbrenda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Zg6tb7DMYGF57o2i@casper.infradead.org>

On Thu, 4 Apr 2024 14:38:55 +0100
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 08:41:27AM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 04:11:45PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:  
> > > struct page is going to lose its refcount (someday) and as part of
> > > that page_ref_freeze() will go away.  s390's ultravisor is one of
> > > the few remaining places that uses it, so convert it over to folios.
> > > From previous interactions, I understand that ultravisor doesn't support
> > > large folios, so this simply declines to make large folios secure.
> > > I think you'd be better off splitting the folio if it is large, but
> > > that's something I'd rather leave to someone who can test it.  
> > 
> > Christian, Janosch, or Claudio, could you have a look at this please;
> > and provide an ACK if this is ok with you?  
> 
> Ping?

hi,

we've been looking into it and running some tests to see if anything
catches fire. I thought someone had replied to tell you, but apparently
it should have been me, and I forgot :)


you can tack this on:

Acked-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-04 14:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-22 16:11 [PATCH 0/2] Convert some gmap functions to use folios Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-03-22 16:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] s390: Convert make_page_secure to use a folio Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-03-22 16:11 ` [PATCH 2/2] s390: Convert gmap_make_secure " Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
2024-03-26  7:41 ` [PATCH 0/2] Convert some gmap functions to use folios Heiko Carstens
2024-04-04 13:38   ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-04-04 14:56     ` Claudio Imbrenda [this message]
2024-04-08 15:20 ` Alexander Gordeev

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