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From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
To: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	 Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	 Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
	Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>,
	 "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
	 Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>,
	 Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	 Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 00/30] userfaultfd-wp: Support shmem and hugetlbfs
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2021 14:21:47 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.11.2102051411200.5769@eggly.anvils> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210129224938.GC260413@xz-x1>

On Fri, 29 Jan 2021, Peter Xu wrote:
> 
> Huge & Mike,
> 
> Would any of you have comment/concerns on the high-level design of this series?
> 
> It would be great to know it, especially major objection, before move on to an
> non-rfc version.

Seeing Mike's update prompts me to speak up: I have been looking, and
will continue to look through it - will report when done; but find I've
been making very little forward progress from one day to the next.

It is very confusing, inevitably; but you have done an *outstanding*
job on acknowledging the confusion, and commenting it in great detail.

Hugh


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-02-05 22:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-15 17:08 [PATCH RFC 00/30] userfaultfd-wp: Support shmem and hugetlbfs Peter Xu
2021-01-15 17:08 ` [PATCH RFC 01/30] mm/thp: Simplify copying of huge zero page pmd when fork Peter Xu
2021-01-15 17:08 ` [PATCH RFC 02/30] mm/userfaultfd: Fix uffd-wp special cases for fork() Peter Xu
2021-01-15 17:08 ` [PATCH RFC 03/30] mm/userfaultfd: Fix a few thp pmd missing uffd-wp bit Peter Xu
2021-01-15 17:08 ` [PATCH RFC 04/30] shmem/userfaultfd: Take care of UFFDIO_COPY_MODE_WP Peter Xu
2021-01-15 17:08 ` [PATCH RFC 05/30] mm: Clear vmf->pte after pte_unmap_same() returns Peter Xu
2021-01-15 17:08 ` [PATCH RFC 06/30] mm/userfaultfd: Introduce special pte for unmapped file-backed mem Peter Xu
2021-01-15 17:08 ` [PATCH RFC 07/30] mm/swap: Introduce the idea of special swap ptes Peter Xu
2021-01-18 19:40   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-01-19 14:24     ` Peter Xu
2021-01-15 17:08 ` [PATCH RFC 08/30] shmem/userfaultfd: Handle uffd-wp special pte in page fault handler Peter Xu
2021-01-15 17:08 ` [PATCH RFC 09/30] mm: Drop first_index/last_index in zap_details Peter Xu
2021-01-15 17:08 ` [PATCH RFC 10/30] mm: Introduce zap_details.zap_flags Peter Xu
2021-01-15 17:08 ` [PATCH RFC 11/30] mm: Introduce ZAP_FLAG_SKIP_SWAP Peter Xu
2021-01-15 17:08 ` [PATCH RFC 12/30] mm: Pass zap_flags into unmap_mapping_pages() Peter Xu
2021-01-15 17:08 ` [PATCH RFC 13/30] shmem/userfaultfd: Persist uffd-wp bit across zapping for file-backed Peter Xu
2021-01-15 17:08 ` [PATCH RFC 14/30] shmem/userfaultfd: Allow wr-protect none pte for file-backed mem Peter Xu
2021-01-15 17:08 ` [PATCH RFC 15/30] shmem/userfaultfd: Allows file-back mem to be uffd wr-protected on thps Peter Xu
2021-01-15 17:08 ` [PATCH RFC 16/30] shmem/userfaultfd: Handle the left-overed special swap ptes Peter Xu
2021-01-15 17:08 ` [PATCH RFC 17/30] shmem/userfaultfd: Pass over uffd-wp special swap pte when fork() Peter Xu
2021-01-15 17:08 ` [PATCH RFC 18/30] hugetlb/userfaultfd: Hook page faults for uffd write protection Peter Xu
2021-01-15 17:08 ` [PATCH RFC 19/30] hugetlb/userfaultfd: Take care of UFFDIO_COPY_MODE_WP Peter Xu
2021-01-15 17:08 ` [PATCH RFC 20/30] hugetlb/userfaultfd: Handle UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT Peter Xu
2021-01-15 17:08 ` [PATCH RFC 21/30] hugetlb: Pass vma into huge_pte_alloc() Peter Xu
2021-01-28 22:59   ` Axel Rasmussen
2021-01-29 22:31     ` Peter Xu
2021-01-30  8:08       ` Axel Rasmussen
2021-01-15 17:08 ` [PATCH RFC 22/30] hugetlb/userfaultfd: Forbid huge pmd sharing when uffd enabled Peter Xu
2021-01-15 17:09 ` [PATCH RFC 23/30] mm/hugetlb: Introduce huge version of special swap pte helpers Peter Xu
2021-01-15 17:09 ` [PATCH RFC 24/30] mm/hugetlb: Move flush_hugetlb_tlb_range() into hugetlb.h Peter Xu
2021-01-15 17:09 ` [PATCH RFC 25/30] hugetlb/userfaultfd: Unshare all pmds for hugetlbfs when register wp Peter Xu
2021-01-15 17:09 ` [PATCH RFC 26/30] hugetlb/userfaultfd: Handle uffd-wp special pte in hugetlb pf handler Peter Xu
2021-01-15 17:09 ` [PATCH RFC 27/30] hugetlb/userfaultfd: Allow wr-protect none ptes Peter Xu
2021-01-15 17:09 ` [PATCH RFC 28/30] hugetlb/userfaultfd: Only drop uffd-wp special pte if required Peter Xu
2021-01-15 17:09 ` [PATCH RFC 29/30] userfaultfd: Enable write protection for shmem & hugetlbfs Peter Xu
2021-01-15 17:12 ` [PATCH RFC 30/30] userfaultfd/selftests: Enable uffd-wp for shmem/hugetlbfs Peter Xu
2021-01-29 22:49 ` [PATCH RFC 00/30] userfaultfd-wp: Support shmem and hugetlbfs Peter Xu
2021-02-05 21:53   ` Mike Kravetz
2021-02-06  2:36     ` Peter Xu
2021-02-09 19:29       ` Mike Kravetz
2021-02-09 22:00         ` Peter Xu
2021-02-05 22:21   ` Hugh Dickins [this message]
2021-02-06  2:47     ` Peter Xu

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