linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] mm: Generalize notify_page

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Date:   Thu, 30 May 2019 06:39:54 -0700
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
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        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] mm: Generalize notify_page_fault()

On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 05:31:15PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> On 05/30/2019 04:36 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > The two handle preemption differently.  Why is x86 wrong and this one
> > correct?
> 
> Here it expects context to be already non-preemptible where as the proposed
> generic function makes it non-preemptible with a preempt_[disable|enable]()
> pair for the required code section, irrespective of it's present state. Is
> not this better ?

git log -p arch/x86/mm/fault.c

search for 'kprobes'.

tell me what you think.