From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>, Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>, Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Create 'old' ptes for faultaround mappings on arm64 with hardware access flag Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 21:46:15 +0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20210112214615.GB10434@willie-the-truck> (raw) In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.11.2101111254390.2227@eggly.anvils> On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 01:03:29PM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jan 2021, Will Deacon wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 11:34:08AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 9:15 AM Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > The big difference in this version is that I have reworked it based on > > > > Kirill's patch which he posted as a follow-up to the original. However, > > > > I can't tell where we've landed on that -- Linus seemed to like it, but > > > > Hugh was less enthusiastic. > > > > > > Yeah, I like it, but I have to admit that it had a disturbingly high > > > number of small details wrong for several versions. I hope you picked > > > up the final version of the code. > > > > I picked the version from here: > > > > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201229132819.najtavneutnf7ajp@box > > > > and actually, I just noticed that willy spotted a typo in a comment, so > > I'll fix that locally as well as adding the above to a 'Link:' tag for > > reference. > > > > > At the same time, I do think that the "disturbingly high number of > > > issues" was primarily exactly _because_ the old code was so > > > incomprehensible, and I think the end result is much cleaner, so I > > > still like it. > > Just to report that I gave this v2 set a spin on a few (x86_64 and i386) > machines, and found nothing objectionable this time around. Thanks, Hugh. > And the things that I'm unenthusiastic about are exactly those details > that you and Kirill and Linus find unsatisfactory, but awkward to > eliminate: expect no new insights from me! Well, I'll keep you on CC for v3 -- just in case! Will
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From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>, "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Create 'old' ptes for faultaround mappings on arm64 with hardware access flag Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 21:46:15 +0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <20210112214615.GB10434@willie-the-truck> (raw) In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.11.2101111254390.2227@eggly.anvils> On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 01:03:29PM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jan 2021, Will Deacon wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 11:34:08AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 9:15 AM Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > The big difference in this version is that I have reworked it based on > > > > Kirill's patch which he posted as a follow-up to the original. However, > > > > I can't tell where we've landed on that -- Linus seemed to like it, but > > > > Hugh was less enthusiastic. > > > > > > Yeah, I like it, but I have to admit that it had a disturbingly high > > > number of small details wrong for several versions. I hope you picked > > > up the final version of the code. > > > > I picked the version from here: > > > > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201229132819.najtavneutnf7ajp@box > > > > and actually, I just noticed that willy spotted a typo in a comment, so > > I'll fix that locally as well as adding the above to a 'Link:' tag for > > reference. > > > > > At the same time, I do think that the "disturbingly high number of > > > issues" was primarily exactly _because_ the old code was so > > > incomprehensible, and I think the end result is much cleaner, so I > > > still like it. > > Just to report that I gave this v2 set a spin on a few (x86_64 and i386) > machines, and found nothing objectionable this time around. Thanks, Hugh. > And the things that I'm unenthusiastic about are exactly those details > that you and Kirill and Linus find unsatisfactory, but awkward to > eliminate: expect no new insights from me! Well, I'll keep you on CC for v3 -- just in case! Will _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-12 21:47 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2021-01-08 17:15 [PATCH v2 0/3] Create 'old' ptes for faultaround mappings on arm64 with hardware access flag Will Deacon 2021-01-08 17:15 ` Will Deacon 2021-01-08 17:15 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] mm: Cleanup faultaround and finish_fault() codepaths Will Deacon 2021-01-08 17:15 ` Will Deacon 2021-01-11 14:26 ` Kirill A. Shutemov 2021-01-11 14:26 ` Kirill A. Shutemov 2021-01-11 14:27 ` Will Deacon 2021-01-11 14:27 ` Will Deacon 2021-01-08 17:15 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] mm: Allow architectures to request 'old' entries when prefaulting Will Deacon 2021-01-08 17:15 ` Will Deacon 2021-01-11 14:25 ` Kirill A. Shutemov 2021-01-11 14:25 ` Kirill A. Shutemov 2021-01-11 14:37 ` Will Deacon 2021-01-11 14:37 ` Will Deacon 2021-01-11 14:47 ` Kirill A. Shutemov 2021-01-11 14:47 ` Kirill A. Shutemov 2021-01-08 17:15 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] arm64: mm: Implement arch_wants_old_prefaulted_pte() Will Deacon 2021-01-08 17:15 ` Will Deacon 2021-01-08 19:34 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Create 'old' ptes for faultaround mappings on arm64 with hardware access flag Linus Torvalds 2021-01-08 19:34 ` Linus Torvalds 2021-01-08 19:34 ` Linus Torvalds 2021-01-08 19:42 ` Linus Torvalds 2021-01-08 19:42 ` Linus Torvalds 2021-01-08 19:42 ` Linus Torvalds 2021-01-11 14:01 ` Will Deacon 2021-01-11 14:01 ` Will Deacon 2021-01-11 13:30 ` Will Deacon 2021-01-11 13:30 ` Will Deacon 2021-01-11 21:03 ` Hugh Dickins 2021-01-11 21:03 ` Hugh Dickins 2021-01-11 21:03 ` Hugh Dickins 2021-01-12 21:46 ` Will Deacon [this message] 2021-01-12 21:46 ` Will Deacon 2021-01-11 14:24 ` Kirill A. Shutemov 2021-01-11 14:24 ` Kirill A. Shutemov 2021-01-11 19:25 ` Linus Torvalds 2021-01-11 19:25 ` Linus Torvalds 2021-01-11 19:25 ` Linus Torvalds 2021-01-12 21:47 ` Will Deacon 2021-01-12 21:47 ` Will Deacon 2021-01-12 21:55 ` Linus Torvalds 2021-01-12 21:55 ` Linus Torvalds 2021-01-12 21:55 ` Linus Torvalds
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