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From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
To: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
	Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] mm: Remember young bit for migration entries
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2022 18:25:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YuhS5DcwwNvy2Rkn@xz-m1.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmhkjzo7.fsf@yhuang6-desk2.ccr.corp.intel.com>

On Mon, Aug 01, 2022 at 01:33:28PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote:
> If my understanding were correct, max_swapfile_size() provides a
> mechanism to identify the available bits with swp_entry_t and swap PTE
> considered.  We may take advantage of that?

That's an interesting trick, I'll have a closer look, thanks for the
pointer!

> 
> And according to commit 377eeaa8e11f ("x86/speculation/l1tf: Limit swap
> file size to MAX_PA/2"), the highest bit of swap offset needs to be 0 if
> L1TF mitigation is enabled.
> 
> Cced Andi for confirmation.

Yeah it'll be great to have a confirmation, hopefully max_swapfile_size()
should have covered that case.

-- 
Peter Xu



  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-01 22:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-29  1:40 Peter Xu
2022-07-29  1:40 ` [PATCH RFC 1/4] mm/swap: Add swp_offset_pfn() to fetch PFN from swap entry Peter Xu
2022-08-01  3:13   ` Huang, Ying
2022-08-01 22:29     ` Peter Xu
2022-08-02  1:22       ` Huang, Ying
2022-07-29  1:40 ` [PATCH RFC 2/4] mm: Remember young bit for page migrations Peter Xu
2022-07-29  1:40 ` [PATCH RFC 3/4] mm/x86: Use SWP_TYPE_BITS in 3-level swap macros Peter Xu
2022-07-29  1:40 ` [PATCH RFC 4/4] mm/x86: Define __ARCH_SWP_OFFSET_BITS Peter Xu
2022-07-29 17:07 ` [PATCH RFC 0/4] mm: Remember young bit for migration entries Nadav Amit
2022-07-29 22:43   ` Peter Xu
2022-08-01  3:20 ` Huang, Ying
2022-08-01  5:33 ` Huang, Ying
2022-08-01 22:25   ` Peter Xu [this message]
2022-08-01  8:21 ` David Hildenbrand
2022-08-01 22:35   ` Peter Xu
2022-08-02 12:06     ` David Hildenbrand
2022-08-02 20:14       ` Peter Xu
2022-08-02 20:23         ` David Hildenbrand
2022-08-02 20:35           ` Peter Xu
2022-08-02 20:59             ` David Hildenbrand
2022-08-02 22:15               ` Peter Xu

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