linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] staging: zsmalloc: zsmalloc memory allocation library

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <4F32A55E.8010401@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:39:58 -0800
From:	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>,
	Brian King <brking@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] staging: zsmalloc: zsmalloc memory allocation library

On 02/06/2012 09:26 AM, Seth Jennings wrote:
> On 01/26/2012 01:12 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
>> void *kmap_atomic_prot(struct page *page, pgprot_t prot)
>> {
>> ...
>>         type = kmap_atomic_idx_push();
>>         idx = type + KM_TYPE_NR*smp_processor_id();
>>         vaddr = __fix_to_virt(FIX_KMAP_BEGIN + idx);
>>
>> I think if you do a get_cpu()/put_cpu() or just a preempt_disable()
>> across the operations you'll be guaranteed to get two contiguous addresses.
> 
> I'm not quite following here.  kmap_atomic() only does this for highmem pages.
> For normal pages (all pages for 64-bit), it doesn't do any mapping at all.  It
> just returns the virtual address of the page since it is in the kernel's address
> space.
> 
> For this design, the pages _must_ be mapped, even if the pages are directly
> reachable in the address space, because they must be virtually contiguous.

I guess you could use vmap() for that.  It's just going to be slower
than kmap_atomic().  I'm really not sure it's worth all the trouble to
avoid order-1 allocations, though.

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/