linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/11] update page table walker

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 for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

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

Message-ID: <1381871000-7fqziuur-mutt-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Date:	Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:03:20 -0400
From:	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	Cliff Wickman <cpw@....com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/11] update page table walker

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 01:43:17PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2013 13:36:59 -0400 Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com> wrote:
> 
> > Page table walker is widely used when you want to traverse page table
> > tree and do some work for the entries (and pages pointed to by them.)
> > This is a common operation, and keep the code clean and maintainable
> > is important. Moreover this patchset introduces caller-specific walk
> > control function which is helpful for us to newly introduce page table
> > walker to some other users. Core change comes from patch 1, so please
> > see it for how it's supposed to work.
> > 
> > This patchset changes core code in mm/pagewalk.c at first in patch 1 and 2,
> > and then updates all of current users to make the code cleaner in patch
> > 3-9. Patch 10 changes the interface of hugetlb_entry(), I put it here to
> > keep bisectability of the whole patchset. Patch 11 applies page table walker
> > to a new user queue_pages_range().
> 
> Unfortunately this is very incompatible with pending changes in
> fs/proc/task_mmu.c.  Especially Kirill's "mm, thp: change
> pmd_trans_huge_lock() to return taken lock".

OK, I'll rebase onto mmots in the next post, maybe after waiting for
a few days on the chance that somebody make comments and feedbacks.

> 
> Stephen will be away for a couple more weeks so I'll get an mmotm
> released and hopefully Thierry and Mark will scoop it up(?). 
> Alternatively, http://git.cmpxchg.org/?p=linux-mmots.git;a=summary is
> up to date.
> 
> Please take a look, decide what you think we should do?

This patchset is ver.1, so I think that we need reviews before thinking
about merging. Please wait for my next post on top of this tree.

Thanks,
Naoya Horiguchi
--
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/