From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org, oleksandr@redhat.com,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com>,
Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>,
Sandeep Patil <sspatil@google.com>,
Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@google.com>,
Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
John Dias <joaodias@google.com>,
Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>,
Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 8/8] mm: support both pid and pidfd for process_madvise
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 16:28:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ae381f0c96c5a21c9e378d3c93cd819a77b3c0df.camel@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200212233946.246210-9-minchan@kernel.org>
On Wed, 2020-02-12 at 15:39 -0800, Minchan Kim wrote:
> There is a demand[1] to support pid as well pidfd for process_madvise
> to reduce unnecessary syscall to get pidfd if the user has control of
> the target process(ie, they could guarantee the process is not gone
> or pid is not reused. Or, it might be okay to give a hint to wrong
> process).
>
> This patch aims for supporting both options like waitid(2). So, the
> syscall is currently,
>
> int process_madvise(int which, pid_t pid, void *addr,
> size_t length, int advise, unsigned long flag);
>
> @which is actually idtype_t for userspace libray and currently,
> it supports P_PID and P_PIDFD.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/9d849087-3359-c4ab-fbec-859e8186c509@virtuozzo.com/
>
> Cc: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
> Suggested-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
So if you move patch 7 up before patch 2 you could squash this patch with
your current patch 2 and drop one patch from your series. It would
probably help to reduce the review overhead as well.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-13 0:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-12 23:39 [PATCH v4 0/8] introduce memory hinting API for external process Minchan Kim
2020-02-12 23:39 ` [PATCH v4 1/8] mm: pass task to do_madvise Minchan Kim
2020-02-13 0:21 ` Alexander Duyck
2020-02-13 17:02 ` Minchan Kim
2020-02-13 17:35 ` Jann Horn
2020-02-12 23:39 ` [PATCH v4 2/8] mm: introduce external memory hinting API Minchan Kim
2020-02-13 14:08 ` Jann Horn
2020-02-13 16:10 ` Minchan Kim
2020-02-12 23:39 ` [PATCH v4 3/8] mm: validate mm in do_madvise Minchan Kim
2020-02-12 23:39 ` [PATCH v4 4/8] mm: check fatal signal pending of target process Minchan Kim
2020-02-12 23:39 ` [PATCH v4 5/8] mm/madvise: employ mmget_still_valid for write lock Minchan Kim
2020-02-12 23:39 ` [PATCH v4 6/8] mm/madvise: allow KSM hints for remote API Minchan Kim
2020-02-12 23:39 ` [PATCH v4 7/8] pid: export pidfd_get_pid Minchan Kim
2020-02-13 0:25 ` Alexander Duyck
2020-02-13 17:08 ` Minchan Kim
2020-02-12 23:39 ` [PATCH v4 8/8] mm: support both pid and pidfd for process_madvise Minchan Kim
2020-02-13 0:28 ` Alexander Duyck [this message]
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