On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 02:29:25PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 12:34:49AM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-10-20 at 23:56 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I figured I'd give my 2010 speculative fault series another spin: > > > > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/4/257 > > > > > > Since then I think many of the outstanding issues have changed > > > sufficiently to > > > warrant another go. In particular Al Viro's delayed fput seems to have > > > made it > > > entirely 'normal' to delay fput(). Lai Jiangshan's SRCU rewrite provided > > > us > > > with call_srcu() and my preemptible mmu_gather removed the TLB flushes > > > from > > > under the PTL. > > > > > > The code needs way more attention but builds a kernel and runs the > > > micro-benchmark so I figured I'd post it before sinking more time into it. > > > > > > I realize the micro-bench is about as good as it gets for this series and > > > not > > > very realistic otherwise, but I think it does show the potential benefit > > > the > > > approach has. > > > > > > (patches go against .18-rc1+) > > > > I think patch 2/6 is borken: > > > > error: patch failed: mm/memory.c:2025 > > error: mm/memory.c: patch does not apply > > > > and related, as you mention, I would very much welcome having the > > introduction of 'struct faut_env' as a separate cleanup patch. May I > > suggest renaming it to fault_cxt? > > What about extend start using 'struct vm_fault' earlier by stack?
I'm not sure we should mix the environment for vm_ops::fault, which acquires the page, and the fault path, which deals with changing the PTE. Ideally we should not expose the page-table information to file ops, its a layering violating if nothing else, drivers should not have access to the page tables. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
