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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"hugh.dickins" <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] kmap_atomic_push
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 17:53:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091008155344.GA11727@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1255016123.17055.17.camel@laptop>


* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> The below patchlet changes the kmap_atomic interface to a stack based 
> one that doesn't require the KM_types anymore.
> 
> This significantly simplifies some code (more still than are present 
> in this patch -- ie. pte_map_nested can go now)
> 
> This obviously requires that push and pop are matched, I fixed a few 
> cases that were not properly nested, the (x86) code checks for this 
> and will go BUG when trying to pop a vaddr that isn't the top one so 
> abusers should be rather visible.

Looks great IMO! Last i proposed this i think either Andrew or Avi had 
second thoughts about the hard-to-calculate worst-case mapping limit - 
but i dont think that's a big issue.

Lets not change the API names though - the rule is that map/unmap must 
be properly nested.

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-08 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-08 15:35 [RFC][PATCH] kmap_atomic_push Peter Zijlstra
2009-10-08 15:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-08 15:53 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-10-08 16:29   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-10-08 16:50     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-08 18:02       ` Hugh Dickins
2009-10-08 22:27         ` jim owens
2009-10-08 22:32           ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-10-08 22:57           ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-10-09 12:15             ` jim owens
2009-10-08 22:12 ` David Howells
2009-10-08 22:29   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-10-08 22:58     ` David Howells
2009-10-08 22:42 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-10-12 18:10 ` Andi Kleen
2009-10-12 18:30   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-10-12 18:40     ` Andi Kleen

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