linux-kernel - Re: [patch 01/10] x86/mm/cpa: Split, rename and clean up try_preserve_large

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Date:   Mon, 10 Sep 2018 09:04:36 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     "Yang, Bin" <bin.yang@...el.com>
cc:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Gross, Mark" <mark.gross@...el.com>,
        "peterz@...radead.org" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
        "Hansen, Dave" <dave.hansen@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 01/10] x86/mm/cpa: Split, rename and clean up
 try_preserve_large_page()

On Mon, 10 Sep 2018, Yang, Bin wrote:

Can you please trim your replies? It's a pain in the neck to find the
single line of information within a large pile of useless quoted text.

> On Fri, 2018-09-07 at 17:01 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >  	/*
> > -	 * We need to check the full range, whether
> > -	 * static_protection() requires a different pgprot for one of
> > -	 * the pages in the range we try to preserve:
> > +	 * Make sure that the requested pgprot does not violate the static
> > +	 * protections. Check the full large page whether one of the pages
> > +	 * in it results in a different pgprot than the first one of the
> > +	 * requested range. If yes, then the page needs to be split.
> >  	 */
> > -	addr = address & pmask;
> > +	new_prot = static_protections(req_prot, address, pfn, 1);
> 
> "npg" is introduced by patch #3. It might be better to keep old API in
> this patch.

Yes. That's bogus. Will fix.

Thanks,

	tglx