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Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 19:56:39 +0200
From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, patches@...ts.linux.dev,
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Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
David Hildenbrand <dhildenb@...hat.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v22 1/4] mm: add MAP_DROPPABLE for designating always
lazily freeable mappings
On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 07:54:34PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 07:27:27PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > > PG_owner_priv_1 maps to PG_swapcache? :)
> >
> > Maybe the combination !swapbacked && swapcache could be used to indicate
> > such folios. (we will never set swapbacked)
> >
> > But likely we have to be a bit careful here. We don't want
> > folio_test_swapcache() to return for folios that ... are not in the
> > swapcache.
>
> I was thinking that too, but I'm afraid it's going to be another
> whack-a-mole nightmare. Even for things like task_mmu in procfs that
> show stats, that's going to be wonky.
>
> Any other flags we can overload that aren't going to be already used in
> our case?
PG_error / folio_set_error seems unused in the non-IO case.
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