From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-we0-f173.google.com (mail-we0-f173.google.com [74.125.82.173]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 221046B0031 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2014 04:31:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-we0-f173.google.com with SMTP id u57so6375843wes.18 for ; Tue, 03 Jun 2014 01:31:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from casper.infradead.org (casper.infradead.org. [2001:770:15f::2]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o16si30771246wjr.85.2014.06.03.01.31.25 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 03 Jun 2014 01:31:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 10:31:11 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] File Sealing & memfd_create() Message-ID: <20140603083111.GM11096@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <1397587118-1214-1-git-send-email-dh.herrmann@gmail.com> <537396A2.9090609@cybernetics.com> <20140602044259.GV10092@bbox> <20140602091427.GD3224@quack.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="aHs8h1LsWZz+2jQe" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: David Herrmann Cc: Jan Kara , Minchan Kim , Hugh Dickins , Tony Battersby , Al Viro , Michael Kerrisk , Ryan Lortie , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-mm , linux-fsdevel , linux-kernel , Johannes Weiner , Tejun Heo , Greg Kroah-Hartman , John Stultz , Kristian Hogsberg , Lennart Poettering , Daniel Mack , Kay Sievers --aHs8h1LsWZz+2jQe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 06:04:02PM +0200, David Herrmann wrote: > Correct, the problem is not accounting for pinned-pages, but waiting > for them to get released. Furthermore, Peter's patches make VM_PINNED > an optional feature, so we'd still miss all the short-term GUP users. > Sadly, that means we cannot even use it to test for pending GUP users. Right, I'm not bothered about temporary pins, they'll go away quickly and generally not bother reclaim and the like (much). The thing I 'worry' about is the persistent pins, which have unbounded life spans. --aHs8h1LsWZz+2jQe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTjYfPAAoJEHZH4aRLwOS6ZycP/3BdudIxZJokQYj/PnND87iF Zx7RbDsr8IJ2A5CykLTAcXyvwqWHF7hidOXnRiVlb9SN0kbJge6S6tUJjw7aTg8L 8W5v7ifbndYy9WAZKH7sqdrknGW0hNuR69g3w0OvByKgHToY3HN9ZN8njqi2oXnc iE/gT8Cxt6HRPtMKUyIMS/J5aKLC3/q4+XGnwK5B0iYHRq8piMtZD4s+96VQ2/3L WZlYMf4NkC+ExFAv5/4hfiIgMzbXWi3TvhCbeTFf3k8AVKe07u7PwWkqZgilTNda xEgttm1JeliRYAdRb7s5KEyyZ4v8IyIpZgcJGqbJA911oM5bNI5P7I3hrGWq6M14 eTf1MMC6PIkohOhgjnA0gTDJQvHoQ5n6DPH7AyybBsgYHkhIf8TuxfiWI3Hdyz4B wr7yUC+a0ptXsHgCR9Ze4uTnhMLoX/Ep5LRptRmH4RT9R4b/rRb+vCTKE2GmbUmj ory1E0Rbe2iaiDIx3nsVkLsZrLzK2R2fiIhkAJuYTn+hl0V8iibU9TGZ2UQOUeD3 ZRaGWDu/qR7KktTaBa7sQDdSNAaxHlwrDGRVQogy0EMtC7MGlMUO1vTFTv843HwY 6pmw0WGf/t5gT5VjASyw/vxSomXFdWe6r1Sjr0P7kyw4S8VjL7QWouDzls9I7ErN d+tdhe8RNRFJDty/L5Zj =UaY9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --aHs8h1LsWZz+2jQe-- -- 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