Re: [PATCHv3 09/17] x86/mm: Implement page_keyid() using page_ext

From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>,
	Kai Huang <kai.huang@linux.intel.com>,
	Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 09/17] x86/mm: Implement page_keyid() using page_ext
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 16:14:05 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180618131405.ohpxk6sr4zogqmzn@black.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7fab87eb-7b6d-6995-b6c6-46c0fd049d2a@intel.com>

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 12:54:29PM +0000, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 06/18/2018 03:07 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 06:20:10PM +0000, Dave Hansen wrote:
> >>> +int page_keyid(const struct page *page)
> >>> +{
> >>> +	if (mktme_status != MKTME_ENABLED)
> >>> +		return 0;
> >>> +
> >>> +	return lookup_page_ext(page)->keyid;
> >>> +}
> >>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(page_keyid);
> >> Please start using a proper X86_FEATURE_* flag for this.  It will give
> >> you all the fancy static patching that you are missing by doing it this way.
> > There's no MKTME CPU feature.
> 
> Right.  We have tons of synthetic features that have no basis in the
> hardware CPUID feature.
> 
> > Well, I guess we can invent syntactic one or just use static key directly.
> 
> Did you mean synthetic?

Right.

> > Let's see how it behaves performance-wise before optimizing this.
> 
> It's not an optimization, it's how we do things in arch/x86, and it has
> a *ton* of optimization infrastructure behind it that you get for free
> if you use it.
> 
> I'm just trying to save Thomas's tired fingers from having to say the
> same thing in a week or two when he looks at this.

Okay, I'll look into this.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov