From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 17:15:19 -0800 From: Matthew Wilcox To: John Hubbard Cc: Dan Williams , John Hubbard , Andrew Morton , Linux MM , Jan Kara , tom@talpey.com, Al Viro , benve@cisco.com, Christoph Hellwig , Christopher Lameter , "Dalessandro, Dennis" , Doug Ledford , Jason Gunthorpe , =?iso-8859-1?B?Suly9G1l?= Glisse , Michal Hocko , mike.marciniszyn@intel.com, rcampbell@nvidia.com, Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-fsdevel Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: introduce put_user_page*(), placeholder versions Message-ID: <20181205011519.GV10377@bombadil.infradead.org> References: <20181204001720.26138-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com> <20181204001720.26138-2-jhubbard@nvidia.com> <3c91d335-921c-4704-d159-2975ff3a5f20@nvidia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3c91d335-921c-4704-d159-2975ff3a5f20@nvidia.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 04:58:01PM -0800, John Hubbard wrote: > On 12/4/18 3:03 PM, Dan Williams wrote: > > Except the LRU fields are already in use for ZONE_DEVICE pages... how > > does this proposal interact with those? > > Very badly: page->pgmap and page->hmm_data both get corrupted. Is there an entire > use case I'm missing: calling get_user_pages() on ZONE_DEVICE pages? Said another > way: is it reasonable to disallow calling get_user_pages() on ZONE_DEVICE pages? > > If we have to support get_user_pages() on ZONE_DEVICE pages, then the whole > LRU field approach is unusable. We just need to rearrange ZONE_DEVICE pages. Please excuse the whitespace damage: +++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h @@ -151,10 +151,12 @@ struct page { #endif }; struct { /* ZONE_DEVICE pages */ + unsigned long _zd_pad_2; /* LRU */ + unsigned long _zd_pad_3; /* LRU */ + unsigned long _zd_pad_1; /* uses mapping */ /** @pgmap: Points to the hosting device page map. */ struct dev_pagemap *pgmap; unsigned long hmm_data; - unsigned long _zd_pad_1; /* uses mapping */ }; /** @rcu_head: You can use this to free a page by RCU. */ You don't use page->private or page->index, do you Dan?