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From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
	"Li, Liang Z" <liang.z.li@intel.com>,
	Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm: thp: kvm: fix memory corruption in KVM with THP enabled
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 17:57:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160427155730.GB11700@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160427151834.GC22035@node.shutemov.name>

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 06:18:34PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> Okay, I see.
> 
> But do we really want to make PageTransCompoundMap() visiable beyond KVM
> code? It looks like too KVM-specific.

Any other secondary MMU notifier manager (KVM is just one of the many
MMU notifier users) will need the same information if it doesn't want
to run a flood of get_user_pages_fast and it can support multiple
granularity in the secondary MMU mappings, so I think it is justified
to be exposed not just to KVM.

The other option would be to move transparent_hugepage_adjust to
mm/huge_memory.c but that currently has all kind of KVM data
structures in it, so it's definitely not a cut-and-paste work, so I
couldn't do a fix as cleaner as this one for 4.6.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-27 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-27 12:04 [PATCH 1/1] mm: thp: kvm: fix memory corruption in KVM with THP enabled Andrea Arcangeli
2016-04-27 13:50 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-04-27 14:59   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2016-04-27 15:18     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2016-04-27 15:57       ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2016-04-27 16:03         ` Andrea Arcangeli

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