linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/6] tlb: mmu_gather: Introduce tlb_gather_mmu

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]

Date:   Fri, 20 Nov 2020 09:31:09 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@...roid.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>, Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] tlb: mmu_gather: Introduce tlb_gather_mmu_fullmm()

Oh - wait.

Not ack.

Not because this is wrong, but because I think you should remove the
start/end arguments here too.

The _only_ thing they were used for was that "fullmm" flag, afaik. So
now they no longer make sense.

Hmm?

               Linus

On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 9:22 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 6:36 AM Will Deacon <will@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Introduce tlb_gather_mmu_fullmm() to make it clearer that this is for the
> > entire mm and WARN() if tlb_gather_mmu() is called with an 'end' address
> > greated than TASK_SIZE.
>
> Ack (but with a spello note - "greated").
>
>           Linus