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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

  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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