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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/17] mm: sys_remap_anon_pages
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 06:13:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iok0q8p4.fsf@tassilo.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1412356087-16115-13-git-send-email-aarcange@redhat.com> (Andrea Arcangeli's message of "Fri, 3 Oct 2014 19:08:02 +0200")

Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> writes:

> This new syscall will move anon pages across vmas, atomically and
> without touching the vmas.
>
> It only works on non shared anonymous pages because those can be
> relocated without generating non linear anon_vmas in the rmap code.

...

> It is an alternative to mremap.

Why a new syscall? Couldn't mremap do this transparently?

-Andi

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-04 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-03 17:07 [PATCH 00/17] RFC: userfault v2 Andrea Arcangeli
2014-10-03 17:07 ` [PATCH 01/17] mm: gup: add FOLL_TRIED Andrea Arcangeli
2014-10-03 18:15   ` Linus Torvalds
2014-10-03 20:55     ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-10-03 17:07 ` [PATCH 02/17] mm: gup: add get_user_pages_locked and get_user_pages_unlocked Andrea Arcangeli
2014-10-03 17:07 ` [PATCH 03/17] mm: gup: use get_user_pages_unlocked within get_user_pages_fast Andrea Arcangeli
2014-10-03 17:07 ` [PATCH 04/17] mm: gup: make get_user_pages_fast and __get_user_pages_fast latency conscious Andrea Arcangeli
2014-10-03 18:23   ` Linus Torvalds
2014-10-06 14:14     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2014-10-03 17:07 ` [PATCH 05/17] mm: gup: use get_user_pages_fast and get_user_pages_unlocked Andrea Arcangeli
2014-10-03 17:07 ` [PATCH 06/17] kvm: Faults which trigger IO release the mmap_sem Andrea Arcangeli
2014-10-03 17:07 ` [PATCH 07/17] mm: madvise MADV_USERFAULT: prepare vm_flags to allow more than 32bits Andrea Arcangeli
2014-10-07  9:03   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-11-06 20:08   ` Konstantin Khlebnikov
2014-10-03 17:07 ` [PATCH 08/17] mm: madvise MADV_USERFAULT Andrea Arcangeli
2014-10-03 23:13   ` Mike Hommey
2014-10-06 17:24     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2014-10-07 10:36   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-10-07 10:46     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-07 10:52       ` [Qemu-devel] " Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-10-07 11:01         ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-07 11:30           ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-10-07 13:24     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2014-10-07 15:21       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-10-03 17:07 ` [PATCH 09/17] mm: PT lock: export double_pt_lock/unlock Andrea Arcangeli
2014-10-03 17:08 ` [PATCH 10/17] mm: rmap preparation for remap_anon_pages Andrea Arcangeli
2014-10-03 18:31   ` Linus Torvalds
2014-10-06  8:55     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-06 16:41       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2014-10-07 12:47         ` Linus Torvalds
2014-10-07 14:19           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2014-10-07 15:52             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2014-10-07 15:54               ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-10-07 16:13               ` Peter Feiner
2014-10-07 16:56             ` Linus Torvalds
2014-10-07 17:07           ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-07 17:14             ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-10-07 17:25               ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-10-07 11:10   ` [Qemu-devel] " Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-10-07 13:37     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2014-10-03 17:08 ` [PATCH 11/17] mm: swp_entry_swapcount Andrea Arcangeli
2014-10-03 17:08 ` [PATCH 12/17] mm: sys_remap_anon_pages Andrea Arcangeli
2014-10-04 13:13   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2014-10-06 17:00     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2014-10-03 17:08 ` [PATCH 13/17] waitqueue: add nr wake parameter to __wake_up_locked_key Andrea Arcangeli
2014-10-03 17:08 ` [PATCH 14/17] userfaultfd: add new syscall to provide memory externalization Andrea Arcangeli
2014-10-10  9:39   ` Thomas Martitz
2014-10-03 17:08 ` [PATCH 15/17] userfaultfd: make userfaultfd_write non blocking Andrea Arcangeli
2014-10-03 17:08 ` [PATCH 16/17] powerpc: add remap_anon_pages and userfaultfd Andrea Arcangeli
2014-10-03 17:08 ` [PATCH 17/17] userfaultfd: implement USERFAULTFD_RANGE_REGISTER|UNREGISTER Andrea Arcangeli

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