linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 13/41] mm: introduce vma->vm

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: <CAJuCfpFmO310qoFJr2EKHRavLx87k6tVkHO3-JCE0s4q5g+TCw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 11 Jan 2023 09:36:18 -0800
From:   Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
To:     Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        michel@...pinasse.org, jglisse@...gle.com, mhocko@...e.com,
        vbabka@...e.cz, hannes@...xchg.org, mgorman@...hsingularity.net,
        willy@...radead.org, liam.howlett@...cle.com, peterz@...radead.org,
        ldufour@...ux.ibm.com, laurent.dufour@...ibm.com,
        paulmck@...nel.org, luto@...nel.org, songliubraving@...com,
        peterx@...hat.com, david@...hat.com, dhowells@...hat.com,
        hughd@...gle.com, bigeasy@...utronix.de, kent.overstreet@...ux.dev,
        punit.agrawal@...edance.com, lstoakes@...il.com,
        peterjung1337@...il.com, rientjes@...gle.com,
        axelrasmussen@...gle.com, joelaf@...gle.com, minchan@...gle.com,
        jannh@...gle.com, shakeelb@...gle.com, tatashin@...gle.com,
        edumazet@...gle.com, gthelen@...gle.com, gurua@...gle.com,
        arjunroy@...gle.com, soheil@...gle.com, hughlynch@...gle.com,
        leewalsh@...gle.com, posk@...gle.com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...roid.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/41] mm: introduce vma->vm_flags modifier functions

On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 8:13 AM Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 09 Jan 2023, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
>
> >To keep vma locking correctness when vm_flags are modified, add modifier
> >functions to be used whenever flags are updated.
>
> How about moving this patch and the ones that follow out of this series,
> into a preliminary patchset? It would reduce the amount of noise in the
> per-vma lock changes, which would then only be adding the needed
> vma_write_lock()ing.

How about moving those prerequisite patches to the beginning of the
patchset (before maple_tree RCU changes)? I feel like they do belong
in the patchset because as a standalone patchset it would be unclear
why I'm adding all these accessor functions and introducing this
churn. Would that be acceptable?

>
> Thanks,
> Davidlohr
>
> --
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to kernel-team+unsubscribe@...roid.com.
>