linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ummunotify: Userspace support for MMU notifications

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Date:	Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:02:54 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
Cc:	Håkon Bugge <Haakon.Bugge@....COM>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Eric B Munson <ebmunson@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
	rolandd@...co.com, pavel@....cz, mingo@...e.hu, jsquyres@...co.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ummunotify: Userspace support for MMU notifications

On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 10:57 -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> Are those system calls the only possible way that virtual to physical
> mappings can change?  Can't page migration or something like that
> potentially affect things?  And even if you did have hooks into every
> system call that mattered (keep in mind that relying on glibc is not
> enough, since an MPI application may not use glibc) would decoding them
> and figuring out what happened really be preferable to a single event
> type that tells you exactly what address range was affected? 

Yeah, virtual<->physical maps can change through swapping, page
migration, memory compaction, huge-page aggregation (the latter two not
yet being upstream).

Even mlock() doesn't pin virtual<->physical maps.
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