From: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, dan.j.williams@intel.com,
mhocko@suse.com, keith.busch@intel.com,
kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com,
alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com, ira.weiny@intel.com,
andreyknvl@google.com, arunks@codeaurora.org, vbabka@suse.cz,
cl@linux.com, riel@surriel.com, keescook@chromium.org,
hannes@cmpxchg.org, npiggin@gmail.com,
mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, shakeelb@google.com, guro@fb.com,
aarcange@redhat.com, hughd@google.com, jglisse@redhat.com,
mgorman@techsingularity.net, daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com,
jannh@google.com, kilobyte@angband.pl, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] mm: process_vm_mmap() -- syscall for duplication a process mapping
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2019 17:38:58 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4228b541-d31c-b76a-2570-1924df0d4724@virtuozzo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190522152254.5cyxhjizuwuojlix@box>
On 22.05.2019 18:22, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 05:00:01PM +0300, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
>> This patchset adds a new syscall, which makes possible
>> to clone a VMA from a process to current process.
>> The syscall supplements the functionality provided
>> by process_vm_writev() and process_vm_readv() syscalls,
>> and it may be useful in many situation.
>
> Kirill, could you explain how the change affects rmap and how it is safe.
>
> My concern is that the patchset allows to map the same page multiple times
> within one process or even map page allocated by child to the parrent.
Speaking honestly, we already support this model, since ZERO_PAGE() may
be mapped multiply times in any number of mappings.
Kirill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-03 14:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-20 14:00 [PATCH v2 0/7] mm: process_vm_mmap() -- syscall for duplication a process mapping Kirill Tkhai
2019-05-20 14:00 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] mm: Add process_vm_mmap() syscall declaration Kirill Tkhai
2019-05-21 0:28 ` Ira Weiny
2019-05-21 8:29 ` Kirill Tkhai
2019-05-20 14:00 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] mm: Extend copy_vma() Kirill Tkhai
2019-05-21 8:18 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-05-21 8:48 ` Kirill Tkhai
2019-05-20 14:00 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] mm: Extend copy_page_range() Kirill Tkhai
2019-05-20 14:00 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] mm: Export round_hint_to_min() Kirill Tkhai
2019-05-20 14:00 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] mm: Introduce may_mmap_overlapped_region() helper Kirill Tkhai
2019-05-20 14:00 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] mm: Introduce find_vma_filter_flags() helper Kirill Tkhai
2019-05-20 14:00 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] mm: Add process_vm_mmap() Kirill Tkhai
2019-05-21 14:43 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] mm: process_vm_mmap() -- syscall for duplication a process mapping Andy Lutomirski
2019-05-21 15:52 ` Kirill Tkhai
2019-05-21 15:59 ` Kirill Tkhai
2019-05-21 16:20 ` Jann Horn
2019-05-21 17:03 ` Kirill Tkhai
2019-05-21 17:28 ` Jann Horn
2019-05-22 10:03 ` Kirill Tkhai
2019-05-21 16:43 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-05-21 17:44 ` Kirill Tkhai
2019-05-23 16:19 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-05-24 10:36 ` Kirill Tkhai
2019-05-22 15:22 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-05-23 16:11 ` Kirill Tkhai
2019-05-24 10:45 ` Kirill Tkhai
2019-05-24 11:52 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-05-24 14:00 ` Kirill Tkhai
2019-05-27 23:30 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-05-28 9:15 ` Kirill Tkhai
2019-05-28 16:15 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-05-29 14:33 ` Kirill Tkhai
2019-06-03 14:38 ` Kirill Tkhai [this message]
2019-06-03 14:56 ` Kirill Tkhai
2019-06-03 17:47 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-06-04 9:32 ` Kirill Tkhai
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