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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>,
	John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 2/2] mm/migration: Add trace events for base page and HugeTLB migrations
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 10:16:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220125101606.3cfb5561@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Ye/7EWJ576hdkWDg@casper.infradead.org>

On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 13:28:49 +0000
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 08:38:25AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> > +		TP_printk("addr=%lx, pte=%lx order=%d", __entry->addr, __entry->pte, __entry->order)  
> 
> In these days of increasingly advanced Rowhammer attacks, is it wise
> to let userspace know exactly which physical addresses are being
> used for virtual addresses?

Is it an issue if this is only available for privileged users?

With tracing, you can just create a kprobe to get the same information for
you as well, so this isn't giving a user anything they do not already have.

-- Steve


      reply	other threads:[~2022-01-25 15:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-25  3:08 [PATCH V2 0/2] mm/migration: Add trace events Anshuman Khandual
2022-01-25  3:08 ` [PATCH V2 1/2] mm/migration: Add trace events for THP migrations Anshuman Khandual
2022-01-25  3:08 ` [PATCH V2 2/2] mm/migration: Add trace events for base page and HugeTLB migrations Anshuman Khandual
2022-01-25  9:41   ` kernel test robot
2022-01-25  9:41   ` kernel test robot
2022-01-25 10:28     ` Anshuman Khandual
2022-01-27  4:07       ` Andrew Morton
2022-01-27  4:52         ` Anshuman Khandual
2022-01-27  6:55           ` Anshuman Khandual
2022-01-25 11:13   ` kernel test robot
2022-01-25 13:28   ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-25 15:16     ` Steven Rostedt [this message]

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