From: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, x86@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 6/6] x86/xen: open code alloc_vm_area in arch_gnttab_valloc
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 11:24:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ebd69ba1-fc06-3cc7-348e-3cb0004c2a34@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200922145819.GA28420@lst.de>
On 9/22/20 10:58 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 04:44:10PM -0400, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com wrote:
>> This will end up incrementing area->ptes pointer. So perhaps something like
>>
>>
>> pte_t **ptes = area->ptes;
>>
>> if (apply_to_page_range(&init_mm, (unsigned long)area->area->addr,
>> PAGE_SIZE * nr_frames, gnttab_apply, &ptes)) {
>>
>> ...
> Yeah. What do you think of this version?
Oh yes, this is way better. This now can actually be read without trying to mentally unwind triple pointers. (You probably want to initialize idx to zero before calling apply_to_page_range(), I am not sure it's guaranteed to be zero).
> I think it is a little
> cleaner and matches what xenbus does. At this point it probably should
> be split into a Xen and a alloc_vm_area removal patch, though.
Right.
-boris
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-18 16:37 [Intel-gfx] remove alloc_vm_area Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-18 16:37 ` [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/6] zsmalloc: switch from alloc_vm_area to get_vm_area Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-21 17:42 ` Minchan Kim
2020-09-21 18:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-21 18:42 ` Minchan Kim
2020-09-21 18:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-18 16:37 ` [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 2/6] mm: add a vmap_pfn function Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-18 16:37 ` [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 3/6] drm/i915: use vmap in shmem_pin_map Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-21 19:11 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-22 6:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-22 8:23 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2020-09-22 14:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-22 16:13 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2020-09-22 16:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-22 17:04 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2020-09-23 6:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-22 11:21 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-22 14:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-22 14:53 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-18 16:37 ` [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 4/6] drm/i915: use vmap in i915_gem_object_map Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-23 9:52 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2020-09-23 13:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-23 13:58 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2020-09-23 14:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-24 12:22 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2020-09-24 13:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-18 16:37 ` [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 5/6] xen/xenbus: use apply_to_page_range directly in xenbus_map_ring_pv Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-18 16:37 ` [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 6/6] x86/xen: open code alloc_vm_area in arch_gnttab_valloc Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-21 20:44 ` boris.ostrovsky
2020-09-22 14:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-22 15:24 ` boris.ostrovsky [this message]
2020-09-22 15:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-22 15:34 ` boris.ostrovsky
2020-09-18 17:03 ` [Intel-gfx] ✗ Fi.CI.BUILD: failure for series starting with [1/6] zsmalloc: switch from alloc_vm_area to get_vm_area Patchwork
2020-09-21 17:50 ` [Intel-gfx] ✗ Fi.CI.BUILD: failure for series starting with [1/6] zsmalloc: switch from alloc_vm_area to get_vm_area (rev2) Patchwork
2020-09-21 18:47 ` [Intel-gfx] ✗ Fi.CI.BUILD: failure for series starting with [1/6] zsmalloc: switch from alloc_vm_area to get_vm_area (rev3) Patchwork
2020-09-22 14:44 ` [Intel-gfx] ✗ Fi.CI.BUILD: failure for series starting with [1/6] zsmalloc: switch from alloc_vm_area to get_vm_area (rev4) Patchwork
2020-09-22 15:01 ` [Intel-gfx] ✗ Fi.CI.BUILD: failure for series starting with [1/6] zsmalloc: switch from alloc_vm_area to get_vm_area (rev5) Patchwork
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