From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail144.messagelabs.com (mail144.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.51]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C4E46B004F for ; Sun, 24 May 2009 12:38:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 09:38:51 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support for unconditional page sanitization Message-ID: <20090524093851.37cbb4d6@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <4A191F44.24468.2C006647@pageexec.freemail.hu> References: <20090520183045.GB10547@oblivion.subreption.com> <20090523182141.GK13971@oblivion.subreption.com> <20090523140509.5b4a59e4@infradead.org> <4A191F44.24468.2C006647@pageexec.freemail.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: pageexec@freemail.hu Cc: "Larry H." , Alan Cox , Ingo Molnar , Rik van Riel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , linux-mm@kvack.org, Ingo Molnar List-ID: On Sun, 24 May 2009 12:19:48 +0200 pageexec@freemail.hu wrote: > On 23 May 2009 at 14:05, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > On Sat, 23 May 2009 11:21:41 -0700 > > "Larry H." wrote: > > > > > +static inline void sanitize_highpage(struct page *page) > > > > any reason we're not reusing clear_highpage() for this? > > (I know it's currently slightly different, but that is fixable) > > KM_USER0 users are not supposed to be called from soft/hard irq > contexts for high memory pages, something that cannot be guaranteed > at this low level of page freeing (i.e., we could be interrupting > a clear_highmem and overwrite its KM_USER0 mapping, leaving it dead > in the water when we return there). in other words, sanitization > must be able to nest within KM_USER*, so that pretty much calls for > its own slot. no arguement that current clear_highpage isn't a fit. I was more thinking about using the content of sanitize_highpage(), and just calling that clear_highpage(). (or in other words, improve clear_highpage to be usable in more situations) -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org