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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
	Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] perf: map pages in advance
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 16:03:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z0nl4B_71PP-yf4m@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241129153134.82755-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>

On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 03:31:34PM +0000, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> While it is not ideal to use a VM_PFNMAP here, doing anything else will
> result in the page_mkwrite() hook need to be provided, which requires the
> same page->mapping hack this patch seeks to undo.

Or we could map the first page read-write to begin with ... ?
Or we could implement a page_mkwrite handler, but do the permissions
change in the driver and return VM_FAULT_NOPAGE.

I don't think we should do the second option in this driver, but
mentioning it because we're going to need to have A Talk about fb_defio.



  reply	other threads:[~2024-11-29 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-29 15:31 Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-11-29 16:03 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2024-11-29 16:27   ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-12-05  2:16 ` Lai, Yi
2024-12-05  7:09   ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2024-12-05  7:48     ` Lorenzo Stoakes

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