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From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
	xfs <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Darrick J . Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmap.2: Add description of MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE and MAP_SYNC
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 20:20:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKgNAkgtVryFb81QgzwPq8SD241yKDN1xNxOWUUQH9QBYV13SA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180412142214.fcxw3g2jxv6bvn7d@quack2.suse.cz>

Jan, Ross.

On 12 April 2018 at 16:22, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
> Hello Michael!
>
> On Thu 12-04-18 15:00:49, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> Hello Jan,
>>
>> I have applied your patch, and tweaked the text a little, and pushed
>> the result to the git repo.
>
> Thanks!
>
>> > +.B MAP_SHARED
>> > +type will silently ignore this flag.
>> > +This flag is supported only for files supporting DAX (direct mapping of persistent
>> > +memory). For other files, creating mapping with this flag results in
>> > +.B EOPNOTSUPP
>> > +error. Shared file mappings with this flag provide the guarantee that while
>> > +some memory is writeably mapped in the address space of the process, it will
>> > +be visible in the same file at the same offset even after the system crashes or
>> > +is rebooted. This allows users of such mappings to make data modifications
>> > +persistent in a more efficient way using appropriate CPU instructions.
>>
>> It feels like there's a word missing/unclear wording in the previous
>> line, before "using". Without that word, the sentence feels a bit
>> ambiguous.
>>
>> Should it be:
>>
>> persistent in a more efficient way *through the use of* appropriate
>> CPU instructions.
>>
>> or:
>>
>> persistent in a more efficient way *than using* appropriate CPU instructions.
>>
>> ?
>>
>> Is suspect the first is correct, but need to check.
>
> Yes, the first is correct.

Thanks for both checking that phrasing. In the end I decided to reword
the sentence a bot more substantially:

              In  conjunction  with  the  use of appropriate CPU
              instructions, this provides users of such mappings
              with a more efficient way of making data modifica‐
              tions persistent.

Thanks,

Michael

-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/

  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-12 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-01 15:36 [PATCH 0/18 v6] dax, ext4, xfs: Synchronous page faults Jan Kara
2017-11-01 15:36 ` [PATCH 01/18] mm: introduce MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE, a mechanism to safely define new mmap flags Jan Kara
2017-11-22 12:02   ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-11-22 16:52     ` Dan Williams
2017-11-22 19:53       ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-11-25 18:45         ` Helge Deller
2017-11-27 15:55           ` Vlastimil Babka
2017-11-01 15:36 ` [PATCH 02/18] mm: Remove VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE_MASK Jan Kara
2017-11-01 15:36 ` [PATCH 03/18] dax: Simplify arguments of dax_insert_mapping() Jan Kara
2017-11-01 15:36 ` [PATCH 04/18] dax: Factor out getting of pfn out of iomap Jan Kara
2017-11-01 15:36 ` [PATCH 05/18] dax: Create local variable for VMA in dax_iomap_pte_fault() Jan Kara
2017-11-01 15:36 ` [PATCH 06/18] dax: Create local variable for vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE test Jan Kara
2017-11-01 15:36 ` [PATCH 07/18] dax: Inline dax_insert_mapping() into the callsite Jan Kara
2017-11-01 15:36 ` [PATCH 08/18] dax: Inline dax_pmd_insert_mapping() " Jan Kara
2017-11-01 15:36 ` [PATCH 09/18] dax: Fix comment describing dax_iomap_fault() Jan Kara
2017-11-01 15:36 ` [PATCH 10/18] dax: Allow dax_iomap_fault() to return pfn Jan Kara
2017-11-01 15:36 ` [PATCH 11/18] dax: Allow tuning whether dax_insert_mapping_entry() dirties entry Jan Kara
2017-11-01 15:36 ` [PATCH 12/18] mm: Define MAP_SYNC and VM_SYNC flags Jan Kara
2017-11-01 15:36 ` [PATCH 13/18] dax, iomap: Add support for synchronous faults Jan Kara
2017-11-01 15:36 ` [PATCH 14/18] dax: Implement dax_finish_sync_fault() Jan Kara
2017-11-01 15:36 ` [PATCH 15/18] ext4: Simplify error handling in ext4_dax_huge_fault() Jan Kara
2017-11-01 15:36 ` [PATCH 16/18] ext4: Support for synchronous DAX faults Jan Kara
2017-11-01 15:36 ` [PATCH 17/18] xfs: Implement xfs_filemap_pfn_mkwrite() using __xfs_filemap_fault() Jan Kara
2017-11-14  2:19   ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-11-01 15:36 ` [PATCH 18/18] xfs: support for synchronous DAX faults Jan Kara
2017-11-14  2:19   ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-11-01 15:36 ` [PATCH] mmap.2: Add description of MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE and MAP_SYNC Jan Kara
2018-04-12 13:00   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2018-04-12 14:00     ` Ross Zwisler
2018-04-12 14:22     ` Jan Kara
2018-04-12 18:20       ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) [this message]
2018-04-13 11:17         ` Jan Kara
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-10-24 15:23 [PATCH 0/17 v5] dax, ext4, xfs: Synchronous page faults Jan Kara
2017-10-24 15:24 ` [PATCH] mmap.2: Add description of MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE and MAP_SYNC Jan Kara
2017-10-24 21:10   ` Ross Zwisler
2017-10-26 13:24     ` Jan Kara
2017-10-26 18:22       ` Ross Zwisler

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