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From: willy@infradead.org (Matthew Wilcox)
To: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/6] struct page: add field for vm_struct
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 13:16:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180211211646.GC4680@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180211031920.3424-4-igor.stoppa@huawei.com>

On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 05:19:17AM +0200, Igor Stoppa wrote:
> The struct page has a "mapping" field, which can be re-used, to store a
> pointer to the parent area. This will avoid more expensive searches.
> 
> As example, the function find_vm_area is reimplemented, to take advantage
> of the newly introduced field.

Umm.  Is it more efficient?  You're replacing an rb-tree search with a
page-table walk.  You eliminate a spinlock, which is great, but is the
page-table walk more efficient?  I suppose it'll depend on the depth of
the rb-tree, and (at least on x86), the page tables should already be
in cache.

Unrelated to this patch, I'm working on a patch to give us page_type,
and I think I'll allocate a bit to mark pages which are vmalloced.
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-11 21:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-11  3:19 [RFC PATCH v15 0/6] mm: security: ro protection for dynamic data Igor Stoppa
2018-02-11  3:19 ` [PATCH 1/6] genalloc: track beginning of allocations Igor Stoppa
2018-02-11 12:24   ` Mike Rapoport
2018-02-12 11:17     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-02-12 11:36       ` Mike Rapoport
2018-02-13  0:43   ` kbuild test robot
2018-02-11  3:19 ` [PATCH 2/6] genalloc: selftest Igor Stoppa
2018-02-11 20:22   ` Philippe Ombredanne
2018-02-11 20:27     ` Randy Dunlap
2018-02-11 21:01       ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-02-11  3:19 ` [PATCH 3/6] struct page: add field for vm_struct Igor Stoppa
2018-02-11 21:16   ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2018-02-12 16:24     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-02-20 19:53       ` Igor Stoppa
2018-02-20 20:54         ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-02-21 12:01           ` Igor Stoppa
2018-02-22 14:20             ` Igor Stoppa
2018-02-11  3:19 ` [PATCH 4/6] Protectable Memory Igor Stoppa
2018-02-11 12:37   ` Mike Rapoport
2018-02-12 11:26     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-02-12 11:43       ` Mike Rapoport
2018-02-12 12:53         ` Mike Rapoport
2018-02-12 13:41           ` Igor Stoppa
2018-02-12 15:31             ` Mike Rapoport
2018-02-12 15:41               ` Igor Stoppa
2018-02-11  3:19 ` [PATCH 5/6] Pmalloc: self-test Igor Stoppa
2018-02-13  2:43   ` kbuild test robot
2018-02-11  3:19 ` [PATCH 6/6] Documentation for Pmalloc Igor Stoppa
2018-02-11 21:17   ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-02-12 11:28     ` Igor Stoppa
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-02-12 16:52 [RFC PATCH v16 0/6] mm: security: ro protection for dynamic data Igor Stoppa
2018-02-12 16:52 ` [PATCH 3/6] struct page: add field for vm_struct Igor Stoppa
2018-02-04 16:47 [RFC PATCH v14 0/6] mm: security: ro protection for dynamic data Igor Stoppa
2018-02-04 16:47 ` [PATCH 3/6] struct page: add field for vm_struct Igor Stoppa
2018-02-03 19:42 [RFC PATCH v13 0/6] mm: security: ro protection for dynamic data Igor Stoppa
2018-02-03 19:42 ` [PATCH 3/6] struct page: add field for vm_struct Igor Stoppa
2018-01-30 15:14 [RFC PATCH v12 0/6] mm: security: ro protection for dynamic data Igor Stoppa
2018-01-30 15:14 ` [PATCH 3/6] struct page: add field for vm_struct Igor Stoppa
2018-02-01  0:00   ` Christopher Lameter
2018-02-01 12:42     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-02-01 21:11       ` Kees Cook
2018-02-02 16:01         ` Igor Stoppa
2018-02-02 18:43       ` Christopher Lameter
2018-02-03 16:13         ` Igor Stoppa
2018-02-05 15:33           ` Christopher Lameter
2018-02-09 11:34             ` Igor Stoppa
2018-02-06 12:37   ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-02-09 13:45     ` Igor Stoppa
2018-01-24 17:56 [RFC PATCH v11 0/6] mm: security: ro protection for dynamic data Igor Stoppa
2018-01-24 17:56 ` [PATCH 3/6] struct page: add field for vm_struct Igor Stoppa

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