From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>, <linux-mm@kvack.org>, "Jenny Herbert" <jennifer.herbert@citrix.com> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] mm: add 'foreign' alias for the 'pinned' page flag Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 15:47:23 +0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <1421682443-20509-3-git-send-email-david.vrabel@citrix.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <1421682443-20509-1-git-send-email-david.vrabel@citrix.com> From: Jenny Herbert <jennifer.herbert@citrix.com> The foreign page flag will be used by Xen guests to mark pages that have grant mappings of frames from other (foreign) guests. The foreign flag is an alias for the existing (Xen-specific) pinned flag. This is safe because pinned is only used on pages used for page tables and these cannot also be foreign. Signed-off-by: Jenny Herbert <jennifer.herbert@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> --- include/linux/page-flags.h | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h index e1f5fcd..5ed7bda 100644 --- a/include/linux/page-flags.h +++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h @@ -121,8 +121,12 @@ enum pageflags { PG_fscache = PG_private_2, /* page backed by cache */ /* XEN */ + /* Pinned in Xen as a read-only pagetable page. */ PG_pinned = PG_owner_priv_1, + /* Pinned as part of domain save (see xen_mm_pin_all()). */ PG_savepinned = PG_dirty, + /* Has a grant mapping of another (foreign) domain's page. */ + PG_foreign = PG_owner_priv_1, /* SLOB */ PG_slob_free = PG_private, @@ -215,6 +219,7 @@ __PAGEFLAG(Slab, slab) PAGEFLAG(Checked, checked) /* Used by some filesystems */ PAGEFLAG(Pinned, pinned) TESTSCFLAG(Pinned, pinned) /* Xen */ PAGEFLAG(SavePinned, savepinned); /* Xen */ +PAGEFLAG(Foreign, foreign); /* Xen */ PAGEFLAG(Reserved, reserved) __CLEARPAGEFLAG(Reserved, reserved) PAGEFLAG(SwapBacked, swapbacked) __CLEARPAGEFLAG(SwapBacked, swapbacked) __SETPAGEFLAG(SwapBacked, swapbacked) -- 1.7.10.4
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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org, Jenny Herbert <jennifer.herbert@citrix.com> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] mm: add 'foreign' alias for the 'pinned' page flag Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 15:47:23 +0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <1421682443-20509-3-git-send-email-david.vrabel@citrix.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <1421682443-20509-1-git-send-email-david.vrabel@citrix.com> From: Jenny Herbert <jennifer.herbert@citrix.com> The foreign page flag will be used by Xen guests to mark pages that have grant mappings of frames from other (foreign) guests. The foreign flag is an alias for the existing (Xen-specific) pinned flag. This is safe because pinned is only used on pages used for page tables and these cannot also be foreign. Signed-off-by: Jenny Herbert <jennifer.herbert@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> --- include/linux/page-flags.h | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h index e1f5fcd..5ed7bda 100644 --- a/include/linux/page-flags.h +++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h @@ -121,8 +121,12 @@ enum pageflags { PG_fscache = PG_private_2, /* page backed by cache */ /* XEN */ + /* Pinned in Xen as a read-only pagetable page. */ PG_pinned = PG_owner_priv_1, + /* Pinned as part of domain save (see xen_mm_pin_all()). */ PG_savepinned = PG_dirty, + /* Has a grant mapping of another (foreign) domain's page. */ + PG_foreign = PG_owner_priv_1, /* SLOB */ PG_slob_free = PG_private, @@ -215,6 +219,7 @@ __PAGEFLAG(Slab, slab) PAGEFLAG(Checked, checked) /* Used by some filesystems */ PAGEFLAG(Pinned, pinned) TESTSCFLAG(Pinned, pinned) /* Xen */ PAGEFLAG(SavePinned, savepinned); /* Xen */ +PAGEFLAG(Foreign, foreign); /* Xen */ PAGEFLAG(Reserved, reserved) __CLEARPAGEFLAG(Reserved, reserved) PAGEFLAG(SwapBacked, swapbacked) __CLEARPAGEFLAG(SwapBacked, swapbacked) __SETPAGEFLAG(SwapBacked, swapbacked) -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-19 15:47 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2015-01-19 15:47 [PATCHv3 0/2] mm: infrastructure for correctly handling foreign pages on Xen David Vrabel 2015-01-19 15:47 ` David Vrabel 2015-01-19 15:47 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: provide a find_special_page vma operation David Vrabel 2015-01-19 15:47 ` David Vrabel 2015-01-23 0:06 ` Andrew Morton 2015-01-23 0:06 ` Andrew Morton 2015-01-19 15:47 ` David Vrabel [this message] 2015-01-19 15:47 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: add 'foreign' alias for the 'pinned' page flag David Vrabel 2015-01-23 0:06 ` Andrew Morton 2015-01-23 0:06 ` Andrew Morton -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below -- 2015-01-12 15:53 [PATCHv2 0/2] mm: infrastructure for correctly handling foreign pages on Xen David Vrabel 2015-01-12 15:53 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: add 'foreign' alias for the 'pinned' page flag David Vrabel 2015-01-12 15:53 ` David Vrabel 2015-01-08 15:28 [PATCHv1 0/2] mm: infrastructure for correctly handling foreign pages on Xen David Vrabel 2015-01-08 15:28 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: add 'foreign' alias for the 'pinned' page flag David Vrabel 2015-01-08 15:28 ` David Vrabel 2015-01-08 15:28 ` David Vrabel
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