From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com>,
Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>,
Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@google.com>,
Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>,
Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 6/7] mm: extend process_madvise syscall to support vector arrary
Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 20:47:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190530184713.GI6703@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190530080214.GA159502@google.com>
On Thu 30-05-19 17:02:14, Minchan Kim wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 08:57:55AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Thu 30-05-19 11:17:48, Minchan Kim wrote:
[...]
> > > First time, I didn't think about atomicity about address range race
> > > because MADV_COLD/PAGEOUT is not critical for the race.
> > > However you raised the atomicity issue because people would extend
> > > hints to destructive ones easily. I agree with that and that's why
> > > we discussed how to guarantee the race and Daniel comes up with good idea.
> >
> > Just for the clarification, I didn't really mean atomicity but rather a
> > _consistency_ (essentially time to check to time to use consistency).
>
> What do you mean by *consistency*? Could you elaborate it more?
That you operate on the object you have got by some means. In other
words that the range you want to call madvise on hasn't been
remapped/replaced by a different mmap operation.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-30 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 132+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-20 3:52 [RFC 0/7] introduce memory hinting API for external process Minchan Kim
2019-05-20 3:52 ` [RFC 1/7] mm: introduce MADV_COOL Minchan Kim
2019-05-20 8:16 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-20 8:19 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-20 15:08 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2019-05-20 22:55 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-20 22:54 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-21 6:04 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-21 9:11 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-21 10:05 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-28 10:58 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-20 3:52 ` [RFC 2/7] mm: change PAGEREF_RECLAIM_CLEAN with PAGE_REFRECLAIM Minchan Kim
2019-05-20 16:50 ` Johannes Weiner
2019-05-20 22:57 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-20 3:52 ` [RFC 3/7] mm: introduce MADV_COLD Minchan Kim
2019-05-20 8:27 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-20 23:00 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-21 6:08 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-21 9:13 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-30 0:45 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-20 3:52 ` [RFC 4/7] mm: factor out madvise's core functionality Minchan Kim
2019-05-20 14:26 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2019-05-21 1:26 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-21 6:36 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2019-05-21 6:50 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-21 7:06 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2019-05-21 10:52 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-21 11:00 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-21 11:24 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-21 11:32 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-21 10:49 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-21 10:55 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-20 3:52 ` [RFC 5/7] mm: introduce external memory hinting API Minchan Kim
2019-05-20 9:18 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-21 2:41 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-21 6:17 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-21 10:32 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-21 9:01 ` Christian Brauner
2019-05-21 11:35 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-21 11:51 ` Christian Brauner
2019-05-21 15:31 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-27 7:43 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-27 15:12 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-05-27 23:33 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-28 7:23 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-30 0:38 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-20 3:52 ` [RFC 6/7] mm: extend process_madvise syscall to support vector arrary Minchan Kim
2019-05-20 9:22 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-21 2:48 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-21 6:24 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-21 10:26 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-21 10:37 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-27 7:49 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-29 10:08 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-05-29 10:33 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-30 2:17 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-30 6:57 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-30 8:02 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-30 16:19 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-05-30 18:47 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2019-05-30 0:35 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-20 3:52 ` [RFC 7/7] mm: madvise support MADV_ANONYMOUS_FILTER and MADV_FILE_FILTER Minchan Kim
2019-05-20 9:28 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-21 2:55 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-21 6:26 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-27 7:58 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-27 12:44 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-28 3:26 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-28 6:29 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-28 8:13 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-28 8:31 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-05-28 8:49 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-28 9:08 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-28 9:39 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-05-28 10:33 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-28 11:21 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-05-28 11:49 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-28 12:11 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-05-28 12:32 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-28 10:32 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-28 10:41 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-28 11:12 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-28 11:28 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-28 11:42 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-05-28 11:56 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-28 12:18 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-05-28 12:38 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-28 12:10 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-28 11:44 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-28 11:51 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-05-28 12:06 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-28 12:22 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-28 11:28 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-05-21 15:33 ` Johannes Weiner
2019-05-22 1:50 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-30 1:00 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-20 6:37 ` [RFC 0/7] introduce memory hinting API for external process Anshuman Khandual
2019-05-20 16:59 ` Tim Murray
2019-05-21 2:55 ` Anshuman Khandual
2019-05-21 5:14 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-21 10:34 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-28 10:50 ` Anshuman Khandual
2019-05-21 12:56 ` Shakeel Butt
2019-05-22 4:23 ` Brian Geffon
2019-05-20 9:28 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-20 14:42 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2019-05-21 2:56 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-20 16:46 ` Johannes Weiner
2019-05-21 4:39 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-21 6:32 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-21 1:44 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-05-21 5:01 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-21 6:34 ` Michal Hocko
2019-05-21 8:42 ` Christian Brauner
2019-05-21 11:05 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-21 11:30 ` Christian Brauner
2019-05-21 11:39 ` Christian Brauner
2019-05-22 5:11 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-05-22 8:22 ` Christian Brauner
2019-05-22 13:16 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-05-22 14:52 ` Christian Brauner
2019-05-22 15:17 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-05-22 15:48 ` Christian Brauner
2019-05-22 15:57 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-05-22 16:01 ` Christian Brauner
2019-05-22 16:01 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-05-23 13:07 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-27 8:06 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-21 11:41 ` Minchan Kim
2019-05-21 12:04 ` Christian Brauner
2019-05-21 12:15 ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2019-05-21 12:53 ` Shakeel Butt
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