linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] pgtable: improve pte

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Message-ID: <20230802153519.ryds4omveq5zbtex@techsingularity.net>
Date:   Wed, 2 Aug 2023 16:35:19 +0100
From:   Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>
To:     David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        liubo <liubo254@...wei.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] pgtable: improve pte_protnone() comment

On Tue, Aug 01, 2023 at 02:48:41PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> Especially the "For PROT_NONE VMAs, the PTEs are not marked
> _PAGE_PROTNONE" is wrong: doing an mprotect(PROT_NONE) will end up
> marking all PTEs on x86 as _PAGE_PROTNONE, making pte_protnone()
> indicate "yes".
> 
> So let's improve the comment, so it's easier to grasp which semantics
> pte_protnone() actually has.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs