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From: Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@huawei.com>
To: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>, lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Killing reliance on struct page->mapping
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 19:09:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <111f49c1-02d1-3355-e403-a8f91c0191e2@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180130004347.GD4526@redhat.com>

On 30/01/18 02:43, Jerome Glisse wrote:

[...]

> Maybe we can kill page->mapping altogether as a result of this. However this is
> not my motivation at this time.

We had a discussion some time ago

http://www.openwall.com/lists/kernel-hardening/2017/07/07/7

where you advised to use it for tracking pmalloc pages vs area, which
generated this patch:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/kernel-hardening/2018/01/24/7

Could you please comment what wold happen to the shortcut from struct
page to vm_struct that this patch is now introducing?


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thanks, igor

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-01-31 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-30  0:43 Jerome Glisse
2018-01-31 16:56 ` Al Viro
2018-01-31 17:42   ` Jerome Glisse
2018-01-31 17:55     ` Al Viro
2018-01-31 18:13       ` Jerome Glisse
2018-02-01 15:34         ` [Lsf-pc] " Jens Axboe
2018-02-01 15:57           ` Jerome Glisse
2018-02-01 16:00             ` Jens Axboe
2018-02-01 16:33               ` Jerome Glisse
2018-02-01 12:27     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-02-01 13:22       ` Jerome Glisse
2018-01-31 17:09 ` Igor Stoppa [this message]
2018-01-31 17:48   ` Jerome Glisse

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