From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.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>,
Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com>,
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: Mon, 11 Jan 2021 13:30:08 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210111133007.GA7642@willie-the-truck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wg3UkUdiTbqWFx3zBLXv9VJHuNZAa5QyDvXiSmD4gX94A@mail.gmail.com>
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.
>
> >I think that my subsequent patches are an
> > awful lot cleaner after the rework
>
> Yeah, I think that's a side effect of "now the code really makes a lot
> more sense". Your subsequent patches 2-3 certainly are much simpler
> now, although I'd be inclined to add an argument to "do_set_pte()"
> that has the "write" and "pretault" bits in it, instead of having to
> modify the 'vmf' structure.
I played with a few different ways of doing this, but I can't say I prefer
them over what I ended up posting. Having a bunch of 'bool' arguments makes
the callers hard to read and brings into question what exactly vmf->flags is
for. I also tried adding a separate 'address' parameter so that vmf->address
is always the real faulting address, but 'address' is the thing to use for
the pte (i.e. prefault is when 'address != vmf->address'). That wasn't too
bad, but it made the normal finish_fault() case look weird.
So I think I'll leave it as-is and see if anybody wants to change it later
on.
Will
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Thread overview: 19+ 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 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] mm: Cleanup faultaround and finish_fault() codepaths Will Deacon
2021-01-11 14:26 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
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
2021-01-11 14:25 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-01-11 14:37 ` Will Deacon
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 19:34 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] Create 'old' ptes for faultaround mappings on arm64 with hardware access flag Linus Torvalds
2021-01-08 19:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-01-11 14:01 ` Will Deacon
2021-01-11 13:30 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2021-01-11 21:03 ` Hugh Dickins
2021-01-12 21:46 ` Will Deacon
2021-01-11 14:24 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-01-11 19:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-01-12 21:47 ` Will Deacon
2021-01-12 21:55 ` Linus Torvalds
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