From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751476AbeEVLpG (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2018 07:45:06 -0400 Received: from mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.158.5]:34628 "EHLO mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751302AbeEVLpD (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 May 2018 07:45:03 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 01/26] mm: introduce CONFIG_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT To: Matthew Wilcox , Randy Dunlap Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, mhocko@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, kirill@shutemov.name, ak@linux.intel.com, dave@stgolabs.net, jack@suse.cz, khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com, aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au, paulus@samba.org, Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , hpa@zytor.com, Will Deacon , Sergey Senozhatsky , sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com, Andrea Arcangeli , Alexei Starovoitov , kemi.wang@intel.com, Daniel Jordan , David Rientjes , Jerome Glisse , Ganesh Mahendran , Minchan Kim , Punit Agrawal , vinayak menon , Yang Shi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, haren@linux.vnet.ibm.com, npiggin@gmail.com, bsingharora@gmail.com, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Tim Chen , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, x86@kernel.org References: <1526555193-7242-1-git-send-email-ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1526555193-7242-2-git-send-email-ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <2cb8256d-5822-d94d-b0e6-c46f21d84852@infradead.org> <20180517171951.GB26718@bombadil.infradead.org> From: Laurent Dufour Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 13:44:48 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180517171951.GB26718@bombadil.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 x-cbid: 18052211-0012-0000-0000-000005D94011 X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 18052211-0013-0000-0000-0000195683E2 Message-Id: <9a95bb6b-78cb-52a6-9c3a-4869f7cdb079@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10434:,, definitions=2018-05-22_03:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 priorityscore=1501 malwarescore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1011 lowpriorityscore=0 impostorscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1709140000 definitions=main-1805220138 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 17/05/2018 19:19, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 09:36:00AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: >>> + If the speculative page fault fails because of a concurrency is >> >> because a concurrency is > > While one can use concurrency as a noun, it sounds archaic to me. I'd > rather: > > If the speculative page fault fails because a concurrent modification > is detected or because underlying PMD or PTE tables are not yet Thanks Matthew, I'll do that. > >>> + detected or because underlying PMD or PTE tables are not yet >>> + allocating, it is failing its processing and a classic page fault >> >> allocated, the speculative page fault fails and a classic page fault >> >>> + is then tried. >