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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: kirill@shutemov.name
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
	will.deacon@arm.com, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, mhocko@kernel.org, hughd@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mremap: properly flush TLB before releasing the page
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 09:05:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wjTM5588YwhAYQiH7fCu0itRjHYJZ8WaG1y_bx=6JUhtQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181102152516.dkqpeubxh6c3phl2@kshutemo-mobl1>

On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 8:25 AM Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> wrote:
>
> I wounder if it would be cheaper to fix this by taking i_mmap_lock_write()
> unconditionally in mremap() path rather than do a lot of flushing.

That wouldn't help. Think anonymous pages and try_to_free() rmap walk.
So then I think we'd have to take the anonvma lock or something.

And it's not like we are likely to even do any more flushes, really.
We don't flush for each page, only for each page table. So every 512
pages or so.

                     Linus

      reply	other threads:[~2018-11-02 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1541164962-28533-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com>
2018-11-02 14:56 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-11-02 15:00   ` Jann Horn
2018-11-02 15:25     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-11-02 16:05       ` Linus Torvalds [this message]

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