From: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
cl@linux-foundation.org, hugh@veritas.com
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
tglx@linutronix.de, holt@sgi.com, andrea@qumranet.com,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch 12/13] GRU Driver V3 - export is_uv_system(), zap_page_range() & follow_page()
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 12:58:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080707175858.GA1927@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080704073926.GA1449@infradead.org>
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 03:39:26AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 04:34:00PM -0500, steiner@sgi.com wrote:
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(zap_page_range);
> >
>
> NACK.
>
I agree that zap_pages_range() is more general than what is needed.
How about the following. This should prevent abuse of the API &
provide what (I think) drivers need.
Verified with GRU & XPMEM.
--- jack
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Add function to unmap driver ptes.
zap_vma_ptes() is intended to be used by drivers to unmap
ptes assigned to the driver private vmas. This interface is
similar to zap_page_range() but is less general & less likely to
be abused.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
---
include/linux/mm.h | 2 ++
mm/memory.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 25 insertions(+)
Index: linux/include/linux/mm.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/include/linux/mm.h 2008-07-07 12:22:17.809892803 -0500
+++ linux/include/linux/mm.h 2008-07-07 12:22:56.126695482 -0500
@@ -742,6 +742,8 @@ struct zap_details {
struct page *vm_normal_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
pte_t pte);
+int zap_vma_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
+ unsigned long size);
unsigned long zap_page_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
unsigned long size, struct zap_details *);
unsigned long unmap_vmas(struct mmu_gather **tlb,
Index: linux/mm/memory.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/mm/memory.c 2008-07-07 12:22:18.357961503 -0500
+++ linux/mm/memory.c 2008-07-07 12:31:51.097688882 -0500
@@ -978,6 +978,29 @@ unsigned long zap_page_range(struct vm_a
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(zap_page_range);
+/**
+ * zap_vma_ptes - remove ptes mapping the vma
+ * @vma: vm_area_struct holding ptes to be zapped
+ * @address: starting address of pages to zap
+ * @size: number of bytes to zap
+ *
+ * This function only unmaps ptes assigned to VM_PFNMAP vmas.
+ *
+ * The entire address range must be fully contained within the vma.
+ *
+ * Returns 0 if successful.
+ */
+int zap_vma_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
+ unsigned long size)
+{
+ if (address < vma->vm_start || address + size > vma->vm_end ||
+ !(vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP))
+ return -1;
+ zap_page_range(vma, address, size, NULL);
+ return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(zap_vma_ptes);
+
/*
* Do a quick page-table lookup for a single page.
*/
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-07 17:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20080703213348.489120321@attica.americas.sgi.com>
[not found] ` <20080703213633.890647632@attica.americas.sgi.com>
[not found] ` <20080704073926.GA1449@infradead.org>
2008-07-07 14:39 ` Jack Steiner
2008-07-07 14:54 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-07-07 16:29 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-07-07 16:53 ` Jack Steiner
2008-07-08 2:16 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-09 19:11 ` Jack Steiner
2008-07-10 7:31 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-10 13:29 ` Jack Steiner
2008-07-10 14:21 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-10 16:33 ` Jack Steiner
2008-07-10 16:52 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-10 17:20 ` Jack Steiner
2008-07-11 3:30 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-07 18:58 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-07 19:29 ` Jack Steiner
2008-07-07 21:03 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-07-07 17:58 ` Jack Steiner [this message]
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