From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>,
Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>,
Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: remove Xen tmem leftovers
Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2022 09:46:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <93a8e489-5ca5-7593-5d2b-59280187e2a1@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <82dbdc2c-20c2-d69b-bdc9-efc54939d54c@suse.com>
On 05.01.22 07:08, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 04.01.22 15:31, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> On 24.12.21 07:22, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> since the remove of the Xen tmem driver in 2019, the cleancache hooks are
>>> entirely unused, as are large parts of frontswap. This series against
>>> linux-next (with the folio changes included) removes cleancaches, and cuts
>>> down frontswap to the bits actually used by zswap.
>>>
>>
>> Just out of curiosity, why was tmem removed from Linux (or even Xen?).
>> Do you have any information?
>
> tmem never made it past the "experimental" state in the Xen hypervisor.
> Its implementation had some significant security flaws, there was no
> maintainer left, and nobody stepped up to address those issues.
>
> As a result tmem was removed from Xen.
Interesting, thanks for sharing. I know tmem mostly from the papers and
thought it was an interesting approach in general. There was even papers
about a virtio implementation, however, actual code never appeared in
the wild :)
--
Thanks,
David / dhildenb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-05 8:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-24 6:22 Christoph Hellwig
2021-12-24 6:22 ` [PATCH 01/13] mm: remove cleancache Christoph Hellwig
2021-12-24 7:01 ` Juergen Gross
2021-12-24 7:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-12-25 10:35 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-12-24 6:22 ` [PATCH 02/13] frontswap: remove frontswap_writethrough Christoph Hellwig
2021-12-24 6:22 ` [PATCH 03/13] frontswap: remove frontswap_tmem_exclusive_gets Christoph Hellwig
2021-12-24 6:22 ` [PATCH 04/13] frontswap: remove frontswap_shrink Christoph Hellwig
2021-12-24 6:22 ` [PATCH 05/13] frontswap: remove frontswap_curr_pages Christoph Hellwig
2021-12-24 6:22 ` [PATCH 06/13] frontswap: simplify frontswap_init Christoph Hellwig
2021-12-24 6:22 ` [PATCH 07/13] frontswap: remove the frontswap exports Christoph Hellwig
2021-12-24 6:22 ` [PATCH 08/13] mm: simplify try_to_unuse Christoph Hellwig
2021-12-24 6:22 ` [PATCH 09/13] frontswap: remove frontswap_test Christoph Hellwig
2021-12-24 6:22 ` [PATCH 10/13] frontswap: simplify frontswap_register_ops Christoph Hellwig
2021-12-24 6:22 ` [PATCH 11/13] mm: mark swap_lock and swap_active_head static Christoph Hellwig
2021-12-24 6:22 ` [PATCH 12/13] frontswap: remove support for multiple ops Christoph Hellwig
2021-12-24 6:22 ` [PATCH 13/13] mm: hide the FRONTSWAP Kconfig symbol Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <10ec73d4-6658-4f60-abe1-84ece53ca373@redhat.com>
2022-01-04 14:46 ` remove Xen tmem leftovers Christoph Hellwig
2022-01-05 6:08 ` Juergen Gross
2022-01-05 8:46 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2022-01-05 19:36 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
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