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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Zach O'Keefe" <zokeefe@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [mm-unstable v7 12/18] mm/madvise: add MADV_COLLAPSE to process_madvise()
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2022 13:47:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220708134732.fd9cc80739a3b9781a1ecf9e@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220706235936.2197195-13-zokeefe@google.com>

On Wed,  6 Jul 2022 16:59:30 -0700 "Zach O'Keefe" <zokeefe@google.com> wrote:

> Allow MADV_COLLAPSE behavior for process_madvise(2) if caller has
> CAP_SYS_ADMIN or is requesting collapse of it's own memory.

This is maximally restrictive.  I didn't see any discussion of why this
was chosen either here of in the [0/N].  I expect that people will be
coming after us to relax this.

So please do add (a lot of) words explaining this decision, and
describing what might be done in the future to relax it.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-08 20:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-06 23:59 [mm-unstable v7 00/18] mm: userspace hugepage collapse Zach O'Keefe
2022-07-06 23:59 ` [mm-unstable v7 01/18] mm/khugepaged: remove redundant transhuge_vma_suitable() check Zach O'Keefe
2022-07-11 20:38   ` Yang Shi
2022-07-12 17:14     ` Zach O'Keefe
2022-07-06 23:59 ` [mm-unstable v7 02/18] mm: khugepaged: don't carry huge page to the next loop for !CONFIG_NUMA Zach O'Keefe
2022-07-06 23:59 ` [mm-unstable v7 03/18] mm/khugepaged: add struct collapse_control Zach O'Keefe
2022-07-08 21:01   ` Andrew Morton
2022-07-11 18:29     ` Zach O'Keefe
2022-07-11 18:45       ` Andrew Morton
2022-07-12 14:17         ` Zach O'Keefe
2022-07-11 21:51       ` Yang Shi
2022-07-06 23:59 ` [mm-unstable v7 04/18] mm/khugepaged: dedup and simplify hugepage alloc and charging Zach O'Keefe
2022-07-06 23:59 ` [mm-unstable v7 05/18] mm/khugepaged: pipe enum scan_result codes back to callers Zach O'Keefe
2022-07-06 23:59 ` [mm-unstable v7 06/18] mm/khugepaged: add flag to predicate khugepaged-only behavior Zach O'Keefe
2022-07-11 20:43   ` Yang Shi
2022-07-12 17:06     ` Zach O'Keefe
2022-07-06 23:59 ` [mm-unstable v7 07/18] mm/thp: add flag to enforce sysfs THP in hugepage_vma_check() Zach O'Keefe
2022-07-11 20:57   ` Yang Shi
2022-07-12 16:58     ` Zach O'Keefe
2022-07-06 23:59 ` [mm-unstable v7 08/18] mm/khugepaged: record SCAN_PMD_MAPPED when scan_pmd() finds hugepage Zach O'Keefe
2022-07-11 21:03   ` Yang Shi
2022-07-12 16:50     ` Zach O'Keefe
2022-07-06 23:59 ` [mm-unstable v7 09/18] mm/madvise: introduce MADV_COLLAPSE sync hugepage collapse Zach O'Keefe
2022-07-11 21:22   ` Yang Shi
2022-07-12 16:54     ` Zach O'Keefe
2022-07-06 23:59 ` [mm-unstable v7 10/18] mm/khugepaged: rename prefix of shared collapse functions Zach O'Keefe
2022-07-06 23:59 ` [mm-unstable v7 11/18] mm/madvise: add huge_memory:mm_madvise_collapse tracepoint Zach O'Keefe
2022-07-11 21:32   ` Yang Shi
2022-07-12 16:21     ` Zach O'Keefe
2022-07-12 17:05       ` Yang Shi
2022-07-12 17:30         ` Zach O'Keefe
2022-07-06 23:59 ` [mm-unstable v7 12/18] mm/madvise: add MADV_COLLAPSE to process_madvise() Zach O'Keefe
2022-07-08 20:47   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2022-07-13  1:05     ` Zach O'Keefe
2022-07-06 23:59 ` [mm-unstable v7 13/18] proc/smaps: add PMDMappable field to smaps Zach O'Keefe
2022-07-11 21:37   ` Yang Shi
2022-07-12 16:31     ` Zach O'Keefe
2022-07-12 17:27       ` Yang Shi
2022-07-12 17:57         ` Zach O'Keefe
2022-07-13 18:02           ` Andrew Morton
2022-07-13 18:40             ` Zach O'Keefe
2022-07-06 23:59 ` [mm-unstable v7 14/18] selftests/vm: modularize collapse selftests Zach O'Keefe
2022-07-06 23:59 ` [mm-unstable v7 15/18] selftests/vm: dedup hugepage allocation logic Zach O'Keefe
2022-07-06 23:59 ` [mm-unstable v7 16/18] selftests/vm: add MADV_COLLAPSE collapse context to selftests Zach O'Keefe
2022-07-06 23:59 ` [mm-unstable v7 17/18] selftests/vm: add selftest to verify recollapse of THPs Zach O'Keefe
2022-07-06 23:59 ` [mm-unstable v7 18/18] selftests/vm: add selftest to verify multi THP collapse Zach O'Keefe
2022-07-14 18:55 ` [RFC] mm: userspace hugepage collapse: file/shmem semantics Zach O'Keefe

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