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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Ming Lin <mlin@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	 Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: adds NOSIGBUS extension for out-of-band shmem read
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2021 14:16:08 -1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wip5urjbGkPsoATGRbFoXSf5bq1qMwNAWEz5OpeanE+DA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1622589753-9206-3-git-send-email-mlin@kernel.org>

This series passes my "looks fine, is simple and straightforward" test.

One nit:

On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 1:22 PM Ming Lin <mlin@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> +               error = vm_insert_page(vma, (unsigned long)vmf->address,
> +                                       ZERO_PAGE(0));

On architectures where this matters - bad virtual caches - it would be
better to use ZERO_PAGE(vmf->address).

It doesn't make a difference on any sane architecture, but it's the
RightThing(tm) to do.

            Linus


  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-02  0:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-01 23:22 [PATCH 0/2] mm: adds MAP_NOSIGBUS extension for " Ming Lin
2021-06-01 23:22 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: make "vm_flags" be an u64 Ming Lin
2021-06-02  1:58   ` kernel test robot
2021-06-02  2:06   ` kernel test robot
2021-06-01 23:22 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: adds NOSIGBUS extension for out-of-band shmem read Ming Lin
2021-06-02  0:16   ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2021-06-02  1:06     ` Ming Lin
2021-06-02  2:13     ` Hugh Dickins
2021-06-02  2:02   ` kernel test robot
2021-06-02  3:49   ` Hugh Dickins
2021-06-03  0:05     ` Ming Lin
2021-06-03  0:46       ` Hugh Dickins
2021-06-03 18:25         ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-03 19:07           ` Hugh Dickins
2021-06-03 19:12             ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-03 19:15               ` Linus Torvalds
2021-06-03 19:24               ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-06-03 19:35                 ` Simon Ser
2021-06-03 19:57         ` Ming Lin
2021-06-02  9:30   ` kernel test robot

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