From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: James Bottomley <jejb@linux.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v16 07/11] secretmem: use PMD-size pages to amortize direct map fragmentation
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 08:53:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YBO/F6zlyaAhVwcm@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <73738cda43236b5ac2714e228af362b67a712f5d.camel@linux.ibm.com>
On Thu 28-01-21 13:05:02, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-01-28 at 14:01 +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
[...]
> > I am also still not sure why this whole thing is not just a
> > ramdisk/ramfs which happens to unmap its pages from the direct
> > map. Wouldn't that be a much more easier model to work with? You
> > would get an access control for free as well.
>
> The original API was a memfd which does have this access control as
> well. However, the decision was made after much discussion to go with
> a new system call instead.
It would be really great to summarize reasoning behind that decision.
Not only for those who were not part of those discussion but also for
anybody who will be reading git log and want to try to understand that
reasoning. Go and read 15 versions of patchset to find that out is
certainly not great use of time.
Thanks!
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-29 7:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-21 12:27 [PATCH v16 00/11] mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret" memory areas Mike Rapoport
2021-01-21 12:27 ` [PATCH v16 01/11] mm: add definition of PMD_PAGE_ORDER Mike Rapoport
2021-01-21 12:27 ` [PATCH v16 02/11] mmap: make mlock_future_check() global Mike Rapoport
2021-01-21 12:27 ` [PATCH v16 03/11] riscv/Kconfig: make direct map manipulation options depend on MMU Mike Rapoport
2021-01-21 12:27 ` [PATCH v16 04/11] set_memory: allow set_direct_map_*_noflush() for multiple pages Mike Rapoport
2021-01-21 12:27 ` [PATCH v16 05/11] set_memory: allow querying whether set_direct_map_*() is actually enabled Mike Rapoport
2021-01-21 12:27 ` [PATCH v16 06/11] mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret" memory areas Mike Rapoport
2021-01-25 17:01 ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-25 21:36 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-01-26 7:16 ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-26 8:33 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-01-26 9:00 ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-26 9:20 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-01-26 9:49 ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-26 9:53 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-26 10:19 ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-26 9:20 ` Michal Hocko
2021-02-03 12:15 ` Michal Hocko
2021-02-04 11:34 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-01-21 12:27 ` [PATCH v16 07/11] secretmem: use PMD-size pages to amortize direct map fragmentation Mike Rapoport
2021-01-26 11:46 ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-26 11:56 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-26 12:08 ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-28 9:22 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-01-28 13:01 ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-28 13:28 ` Christoph Lameter
2021-01-28 13:49 ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-28 15:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2021-01-28 16:23 ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-28 15:28 ` James Bottomley
2021-01-29 7:03 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-01-28 21:05 ` James Bottomley
2021-01-29 7:53 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2021-01-29 8:23 ` Michal Hocko
2021-02-01 16:56 ` James Bottomley
2021-02-02 9:35 ` Michal Hocko
2021-02-02 12:48 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-02-02 13:14 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-02-02 13:32 ` Michal Hocko
2021-02-02 14:12 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-02-02 14:22 ` Michal Hocko
2021-02-02 14:26 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-02-02 14:32 ` Michal Hocko
2021-02-02 14:34 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-02-02 18:15 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-02-02 18:55 ` James Bottomley
2021-02-03 12:09 ` Michal Hocko
2021-02-04 11:31 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-02-02 13:27 ` Michal Hocko
2021-02-02 19:10 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-02-03 9:12 ` Michal Hocko
2021-02-04 9:58 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-02-04 13:02 ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-29 7:21 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-01-29 8:51 ` Michal Hocko
2021-02-02 14:42 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-01-21 12:27 ` [PATCH v16 08/11] secretmem: add memcg accounting Mike Rapoport
2021-01-25 16:17 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-01-25 17:18 ` Shakeel Butt
2021-01-25 21:35 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-01-28 15:07 ` Shakeel Butt
2021-01-25 16:54 ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-25 21:38 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-01-26 7:31 ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-26 8:56 ` Mike Rapoport
2021-01-26 9:15 ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-26 14:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-01-26 15:05 ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-27 18:42 ` Roman Gushchin
2021-01-28 7:58 ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-28 14:05 ` Shakeel Butt
2021-01-28 14:22 ` Michal Hocko
2021-01-28 14:57 ` Shakeel Butt
2021-01-21 12:27 ` [PATCH v16 09/11] PM: hibernate: disable when there are active secretmem users Mike Rapoport
2021-01-21 12:27 ` [PATCH v16 10/11] arch, mm: wire up memfd_secret system call where relevant Mike Rapoport
2021-01-25 18:18 ` Catalin Marinas
2021-01-21 12:27 ` [PATCH v16 11/11] secretmem: test: add basic selftest for memfd_secret(2) Mike Rapoport
2021-01-21 22:18 ` [PATCH v16 00/11] mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret" memory areas Andrew Morton
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