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From: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>
To: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/mincore: allow for making sys_mincore() privileged
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2019 14:53:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8c9feac8-fecb-a56a-afaf-c1352a666991@petrovitsch.priv.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.YFH.7.76.1901081235380.16954@cbobk.fhfr.pm>

On 08/01/2019 12:37, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2019, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> 
>> Shouldn't the application use e.g. mlock()/.... to guarantee no page 
>> faults in the first place?
> 
> Calling mincore() on pages you've just mlock()ed is sort of pointless 
> though.

Obviously;-)

Sorry for being unclear above: If I want my application to
avoid suffering from page faults, I use simply mlock()
(and/or friends) to nail the relevant pages into physical
RAM and not "look if they are out, if yes, get them in" which
has also the risk that these important pages are too soon
evicted again.

But perhaps I'm missing some very special use cases ....

MfG,
	Brend
-- 
Bernd Petrovitsch                  Email : bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at
                     LUGA : http://www.luga.at

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-08 13:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 161+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-05 17:27 [PATCH] mm/mincore: allow for making sys_mincore() privileged Jiri Kosina
2019-01-05 19:14 ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-01-05 19:24   ` Jiri Kosina
2019-01-05 19:38     ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-01-08  9:14       ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2019-01-08 11:37         ` Jiri Kosina
2019-01-08 13:53           ` Bernd Petrovitsch [this message]
2019-01-08 14:08             ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-01-05 19:44 ` kbuild test robot
2019-01-05 19:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-05 20:12   ` Jiri Kosina
2019-01-05 20:17     ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-05 20:43       ` Jiri Kosina
2019-01-05 21:54         ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-06 11:33           ` Kevin Easton
2019-01-08  8:50           ` Kevin Easton
2019-01-18 14:23           ` Tejun Heo
2019-01-05 20:13   ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-05 19:56 ` kbuild test robot
2019-01-05 22:54 ` Jann Horn
2019-01-05 23:05   ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-05 23:16     ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-05 23:28       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-05 23:39       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-06  0:11         ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-01-06  0:22           ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-06  1:50             ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-06 21:46               ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-08  4:43                 ` Dave Chinner
2019-01-08 17:57                   ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-09  2:24                     ` Dave Chinner
2019-01-09  2:31                       ` Jiri Kosina
2019-01-09  4:39                         ` Dave Chinner
2019-01-09 10:08                           ` Jiri Kosina
2019-01-10  1:15                             ` Dave Chinner
2019-01-10  7:54                               ` Jiri Kosina
2019-01-09 18:25                           ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-10  0:44                             ` Dave Chinner
2019-01-10  1:18                               ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-10  5:26                                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-01-10 14:47                                   ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-01-10 21:44                                     ` Dave Chinner
2019-01-10 21:59                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-11  1:47                                   ` Dave Chinner
2019-01-10  7:03                                 ` Dave Chinner
2019-01-10 11:47                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-10 12:24                                     ` Dominique Martinet
2019-01-10 22:11                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-11  2:03                                         ` Dave Chinner
2019-01-11  2:18                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-11  4:04                                             ` Dave Chinner
2019-01-11  4:08                                               ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-01-11  7:20                                                 ` Dave Chinner
2019-01-11  7:08                                               ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-11  7:36                                                 ` Dave Chinner
2019-01-11 16:26                                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-15 23:45                                                     ` Dave Chinner
2019-01-16  4:54                                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-16  5:49                                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-17  1:26                                                         ` Dave Chinner
2019-02-20 15:49                                                     ` Nicolai Stange
2019-01-11  4:57                                         ` Dominique Martinet
2019-01-11  7:11                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-11  7:32                                             ` Dominique Martinet
2019-01-16  0:42                                         ` Josh Snyder
2019-01-16  5:00                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-16  5:25                                             ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-01-16  5:34                                               ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-16  5:46                                                 ` Dominique Martinet
2019-01-16  5:58                                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-16  6:34                                                     ` Dominique Martinet
2019-01-16  7:52                                                       ` Josh Snyder
2019-01-16 12:18                                                         ` Kevin Easton
2019-01-17 21:45                                                         ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-01-18  4:49                                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-18 18:58                                                             ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-01-16 16:12                                                     ` Jiri Kosina
2019-01-16 17:48                                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-16 20:23                                                         ` Jiri Kosina
2019-01-16 21:37                                                           ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-01-16 21:41                                                             ` Jiri Kosina
2019-01-17  9:52                                                               ` Cyril Hrubis
2019-01-28 13:49                                                               ` Cyril Hrubis
2019-01-17  4:51                                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-18  4:54                                                               ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-17  1:49                                                           ` Dominique Martinet
2019-01-23 20:27                                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-23 20:35                                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-23 23:12                                                               ` Jiri Kosina
2019-01-24  0:20                                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-01-24  0:24                                                             ` Dominique Martinet
2019-01-24 12:45                                                               ` Dominique Martinet
2019-01-24 14:25                                                                 ` Jiri Kosina
2019-01-27 22:35                                                                   ` Jiri Kosina
2019-01-28  0:05                                                                     ` Dominique Martinet
2019-01-29 23:52                                                                       ` Jiri Kosina
2019-01-30  9:09                                                                         ` Michal Hocko
2019-01-30 12:29                                                                           ` Jiri Kosina
2019-01-16 12:36                                             ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-01-10 14:50                               ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-01-11  7:36                               ` Jiri Kosina
2019-01-17  2:22                                 ` Dave Chinner
2019-01-17  8:18                                   ` Jiri Kosina
2019-01-17 21:06                                     ` Dave Chinner
2019-01-07  4:32             ` Dominique Martinet
2019-01-07 10:33               ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-01-07 11:08                 ` Dominique Martinet
2019-01-07 11:59                   ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-01-07 13:29                   ` Daniel Gruss
2019-01-07 10:10         ` Michael Ellerman
2019-01-05 23:09   ` Jiri Kosina
2019-01-30 12:44 ` [PATCH 0/3] mincore() and IOCB_NOWAIT adjustments Vlastimil Babka
2019-01-30 12:44   ` [PATCH 1/3] mm/mincore: make mincore() more conservative Vlastimil Babka
2019-01-31  9:43     ` Michal Hocko
2019-01-31  9:51       ` Dominique Martinet
2019-01-31 17:46       ` Josh Snyder
2019-02-01  8:56     ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-03-06 23:13     ` Andrew Morton
2019-03-07  0:01       ` Jiri Kosina
2019-03-07  0:40         ` Dominique Martinet
2019-03-07  5:46           ` Jiri Kosina
2019-01-30 12:44   ` [PATCH 2/3] mm/filemap: initiate readahead even if IOCB_NOWAIT is set for the I/O Vlastimil Babka
2019-01-30 15:04     ` Florian Weimer
2019-01-30 15:15       ` Jiri Kosina
2019-01-31 10:47         ` Florian Weimer
2019-01-31 11:34           ` Jiri Kosina
2019-01-31  9:56     ` Michal Hocko
2019-01-31 10:15       ` Jiri Kosina
2019-01-31 10:23         ` Michal Hocko
2019-01-31 10:30           ` Jiri Kosina
2019-01-31 11:32             ` Michal Hocko
2019-01-31 17:54           ` Linus Torvalds
2019-02-01  5:13             ` Dave Chinner
2019-02-01  7:05               ` Linus Torvalds
2019-02-01  7:21                 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-02-01  1:44       ` Dave Chinner
2019-02-12 15:48         ` Jiri Kosina
2019-01-31 12:04     ` Daniel Gruss
2019-01-31 12:06       ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-01-31 12:08       ` Jiri Kosina
2019-01-31 12:57         ` Daniel Gruss
2019-01-30 12:44   ` [PATCH 3/3] mm/mincore: provide mapped status when cached status is not allowed Vlastimil Babka
2019-01-31 10:09     ` Michal Hocko
2019-02-01  9:04       ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-02-01  9:11         ` Michal Hocko
2019-02-01  9:27           ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-02-06 20:14             ` Jiri Kosina
2019-02-12  3:44         ` Jiri Kosina
2019-02-12  6:36           ` Michal Hocko
2019-02-12 13:09             ` Jiri Kosina
2019-02-12 14:01               ` Michal Hocko
2019-03-06 12:11   ` [PATCH 0/3] mincore() and IOCB_NOWAIT adjustments Jiri Kosina
2019-03-06 22:35     ` Andrew Morton
2019-03-06 22:48       ` Jiri Kosina
2019-03-06 23:23         ` Andrew Morton
2019-03-06 23:32           ` Dominique Martinet
2019-03-06 23:38             ` Andrew Morton
2019-03-09 16:53               ` Linus Torvalds
2019-03-12 14:17   ` [PATCH v2 0/2] prevent mincore() page cache leaks Vlastimil Babka
2019-03-12 14:17     ` [PATCH v2 1/2] mm/mincore: make mincore() more conservative Vlastimil Babka
2019-03-12 14:17     ` [PATCH v2 2/2] mm/mincore: provide mapped status when cached status is not allowed Vlastimil Babka

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