From: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] mm: speed up mremap by 500x on large regions (v2)
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 12:43:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181016194313.GA247930@joelaf.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35b9c85a-b366-9ca3-5647-c2568c811961@suse.cz>
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 01:29:52PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 10/16/18 12:33 AM, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 02:42:09AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >> On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 06:31:58PM -0700, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote:
> >>> Android needs to mremap large regions of memory during memory management
> >>> related operations.
> >>
> >> Just curious: why?
> >
> > In Android we have a requirement of moving a large (up to a GB now, but may
> > grow bigger in future) memory range from one location to another.
>
> I think Christoph's "why?" was about the requirement, not why it hurts
> applications. I admit I'm now also curious :)
This issue was discovered when we wanted to be able to move the physical
pages of a memory range to another location quickly so that, after the
application threads are resumed, UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_MISSING userfaultfd
faults can be received on the original memory range. The actual operations
performed on the memory range are beyond the scope of this discussion. The
user threads continue to refer to the old address which will now fault. The
reason we want retain the old memory range and receives faults there is to
avoid the need to fix the addresses all over the address space of the threads
after we finish with performing operations on them in the fault handlers, so
we mremap it and receive faults at the old addresses.
Does that answer your question?
thanks,
- Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-16 19:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-13 1:31 [PATCH 0/4] Add support for fast mremap Joel Fernandes (Google)
2018-10-13 1:31 ` [PATCH 1/4] treewide: remove unused address argument from pte_alloc functions (v2) Joel Fernandes (Google)
2018-10-24 8:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-25 2:21 ` Joel Fernandes
2018-10-26 8:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-25 10:47 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-10-26 8:50 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-10-13 1:31 ` [PATCH 2/4] mm: speed up mremap by 500x on large regions (v2) Joel Fernandes (Google)
2018-10-15 9:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-10-15 22:33 ` Joel Fernandes
2018-10-16 11:29 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-10-16 19:43 ` Joel Fernandes [this message]
2018-10-17 7:38 ` Vlastimil Babka
2018-10-24 10:12 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-10-24 11:57 ` Balbir Singh
2018-10-24 12:57 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-10-25 2:09 ` Joel Fernandes
2018-10-25 10:19 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2018-10-26 21:11 ` Joel Fernandes
2018-10-29 10:28 ` Will Deacon
2018-10-25 2:13 ` Joel Fernandes
2018-10-27 10:21 ` Balbir Singh
2018-10-27 19:39 ` Joel Fernandes
2018-10-28 22:40 ` Balbir Singh
2018-10-13 1:31 ` [PATCH 3/4] arm64: select HAVE_MOVE_PMD for faster mremap (v1) Joel Fernandes (Google)
2018-10-13 1:32 ` [PATCH 4/4] x86: " Joel Fernandes (Google)
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