Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] mm/mmu_notifier: contextual information for event triggering invalidation v2

2018-12-13 Thread Dan Williams
On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 9:14 AM wrote: > > From: Jérôme Glisse > > CPU page table update can happens for many reasons, not only as a result > of a syscall (munmap(), mprotect(), mremap(), madvise(), ...) but also > as a result of kernel activities (memory compression, reclaim, migration, > ...).

[PATCH v3 3/3] mm/mmu_notifier: contextual information for event triggering invalidation v2

2018-12-13 Thread jglisse
From: Jérôme Glisse CPU page table update can happens for many reasons, not only as a result of a syscall (munmap(), mprotect(), mremap(), madvise(), ...) but also as a result of kernel activities (memory compression, reclaim, migration, ...). Users of mmu notifier API track changes to the CPU