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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ankita Garg <ankita@in.ibm.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	thomas.abraham@linaro.org,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] mm: Linux VM Infrastructure to support Memory Power Management
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:11:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2y60k1jqj.fsf@firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1309370342.11430.604.camel@nimitz> (Dave Hansen's message of "Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:59:02 -0700")

Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>
> It's also going to be a pain to track kernel references.  On x86, our

Even if you tracked them what would you do with them?

It's quite hard to stop using arbitary kernel memory (see all the dancing
memory-failure does) 

You need to track the direct accesses to user data which happens
to be accessed through the direct mapping.

Also it will be always unreliable because this all won't track DMA.
For that you would also need to track in the dma_* infrastructure,
which will likely get seriously expensive.

-Andi

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-06-29 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-27 12:31 Ankita Garg
2011-05-27 12:31 ` [PATCH 01/10] mm: Introduce the memory regions data structure Ankita Garg
2011-05-27 15:30   ` Dave Hansen
2011-05-27 18:20     ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2011-05-27 21:31       ` Dave Hansen
2011-05-29  8:16         ` Ankita Garg
2011-05-31 17:34           ` Dave Hansen
2011-06-02  8:54             ` Ankita Garg
2011-05-27 12:31 ` [PATCH 02/10] mm: Helper routines Ankita Garg
2011-05-27 12:31 ` [PATCH 03/10] mm: Init zones inside memory regions Ankita Garg
2011-05-27 12:31 ` [PATCH 04/10] mm: Refer to zones from " Ankita Garg
2011-05-27 12:31 ` [PATCH 05/10] mm: Create zonelists Ankita Garg
2011-05-27 12:31 ` [PATCH 06/10] mm: Verify zonelists Ankita Garg
2011-05-27 12:31 ` [PATCH 07/10] mm: Modify vmstat Ankita Garg
2011-05-27 12:31 ` [PATCH 08/10] mm: Modify vmscan Ankita Garg
2011-05-27 12:31 ` [PATCH 09/10] mm: Reflect memory region changes in zoneinfo Ankita Garg
2011-05-27 12:31 ` [PATCH 10/10] mm: Create memory regions at boot-up Ankita Garg
2011-05-28 14:39   ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2011-05-28  7:56 ` [PATCH 00/10] mm: Linux VM Infrastructure to support Memory Power Management Andrew Morton
2011-05-28 13:16   ` Ankita Garg
2011-06-09 18:52   ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-10  0:51     ` Kyungmin Park
2011-06-10 15:11       ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-10 15:59         ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-10 16:55           ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-10 17:05             ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-10 17:19               ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-10 17:23                 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-10 17:52                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-10 18:08                     ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-10 18:47                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-10 19:23                         ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-10 19:37                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-10 20:12                             ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-11  3:02                             ` Arjan van de Ven
2011-06-11 17:06                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-11 17:26                                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2011-06-12 23:07                                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-13 14:28                                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2011-06-13 23:04                                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-06-14  8:51                               ` Ankita Garg
2011-06-15 16:53                               ` Ankita Garg
2011-06-18  4:08                                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2011-06-10 17:33                 ` Ankita Garg
2011-06-11 17:08                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2011-07-12  5:31   ` amit kachhap
2011-06-13  4:47 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-06-16  4:20   ` Ankita Garg
2011-06-16  9:12     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-06-17 15:28       ` Ankita Garg
2011-06-19 23:53         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-06-16 16:04     ` Dave Hansen
2011-06-17 10:03       ` Ankita Garg
2011-06-29 13:00 ` Ankita Garg
2011-06-29 17:06   ` Dave Hansen
2011-06-29 17:42     ` Ankita Garg
2011-06-29 17:59       ` Dave Hansen
2011-06-29 18:17         ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2011-06-30  4:37           ` Ankita Garg
2011-06-29 20:11         ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2011-06-30  5:11           ` Ankita Garg
2011-06-29 18:07     ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2011-07-06  8:45   ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-06  9:01     ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-06 16:50       ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2011-07-06 16:41     ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
2011-07-06 20:20     ` david
2011-07-07  4:54       ` Ankita Garg
2011-07-07 18:00       ` Pekka Enberg
2011-07-08  1:32         ` david

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