Re: [patch 1/3] mm: introduce follow_pte()
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Johannes Weiner han...@cmpxchg.org wrote: On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 02:05:17PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 5 May 2009 22:38:07 +0200 Johannes Weiner han...@cmpxchg.org wrote: On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 12:24:42PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 4 May 2009 11:54:32 +0200 Johannes Weiner han...@cmpxchg.org wrote: A generic readonly page table lookup helper to map an address space and an address from it to a pte. umm, OK. Is there actually some point to these three patches? If so, what is it? Magnus needs to check for physical contiguity of a VMAs backing pages to support zero-copy exportation of video data to userspace. This series implements follow_pfn() so he can walk the VMA backing pages and ensure their PFNs are in linear order. [ This patch can be collapsed with 2/3, I just thought it would be easier to read the diffs when having them separate. ] 1/3 and 2/3: factor out the page table walk from follow_phys() into follow_pte(). 3/3: implement follow_pfn() on top of follow_pte(). So we could bundle these patches with Magnus's patchset, or we could consider these three patches as a cleanup or something. Given that 3/3 introduces an unused function, I'm inclined to sit tight and await Magnus's work. Yeah, I didn't see the video guys responding on Magnus' patch yet, so let's wait for them. Magnus, the actual conversion of your code should be trivial, could you respin it on top of these three patches using follow_pfn() then? So I tested the patches in -mm (1/3, 2/3, 3/3) together with the zero copy patch and everything seems fine. Feel free to add acks from me, least for patch 1/3 and 3/3 - i know too little about the generic case to say anything about 2/3. Acked-by: Magnus Damm d...@igel.co.jp I'll send V3 of my zero copy patch in a little while. Thanks a lot for the help! Cheers, / magnus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [patch 1/3] mm: introduce follow_pte()
On Mon, 4 May 2009 11:54:32 +0200 Johannes Weiner han...@cmpxchg.org wrote: A generic readonly page table lookup helper to map an address space and an address from it to a pte. umm, OK. Is there actually some point to these three patches? If so, what is it? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [patch 1/3] mm: introduce follow_pte()
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 12:24:42PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 4 May 2009 11:54:32 +0200 Johannes Weiner han...@cmpxchg.org wrote: A generic readonly page table lookup helper to map an address space and an address from it to a pte. umm, OK. Is there actually some point to these three patches? If so, what is it? Magnus needs to check for physical contiguity of a VMAs backing pages to support zero-copy exportation of video data to userspace. This series implements follow_pfn() so he can walk the VMA backing pages and ensure their PFNs are in linear order. [ This patch can be collapsed with 2/3, I just thought it would be easier to read the diffs when having them separate. ] 1/3 and 2/3: factor out the page table walk from follow_phys() into follow_pte(). 3/3: implement follow_pfn() on top of follow_pte(). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [patch 1/3] mm: introduce follow_pte()
On Tue, 5 May 2009 22:38:07 +0200 Johannes Weiner han...@cmpxchg.org wrote: On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 12:24:42PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 4 May 2009 11:54:32 +0200 Johannes Weiner han...@cmpxchg.org wrote: A generic readonly page table lookup helper to map an address space and an address from it to a pte. umm, OK. Is there actually some point to these three patches? If so, what is it? Magnus needs to check for physical contiguity of a VMAs backing pages to support zero-copy exportation of video data to userspace. This series implements follow_pfn() so he can walk the VMA backing pages and ensure their PFNs are in linear order. [ This patch can be collapsed with 2/3, I just thought it would be easier to read the diffs when having them separate. ] 1/3 and 2/3: factor out the page table walk from follow_phys() into follow_pte(). 3/3: implement follow_pfn() on top of follow_pte(). So we could bundle these patches with Magnus's patchset, or we could consider these three patches as a cleanup or something. Given that 3/3 introduces an unused function, I'm inclined to sit tight and await Magnus's work. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [patch 1/3] mm: introduce follow_pte()
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 02:05:17PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 5 May 2009 22:38:07 +0200 Johannes Weiner han...@cmpxchg.org wrote: On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 12:24:42PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 4 May 2009 11:54:32 +0200 Johannes Weiner han...@cmpxchg.org wrote: A generic readonly page table lookup helper to map an address space and an address from it to a pte. umm, OK. Is there actually some point to these three patches? If so, what is it? Magnus needs to check for physical contiguity of a VMAs backing pages to support zero-copy exportation of video data to userspace. This series implements follow_pfn() so he can walk the VMA backing pages and ensure their PFNs are in linear order. [ This patch can be collapsed with 2/3, I just thought it would be easier to read the diffs when having them separate. ] 1/3 and 2/3: factor out the page table walk from follow_phys() into follow_pte(). 3/3: implement follow_pfn() on top of follow_pte(). So we could bundle these patches with Magnus's patchset, or we could consider these three patches as a cleanup or something. Given that 3/3 introduces an unused function, I'm inclined to sit tight and await Magnus's work. Yeah, I didn't see the video guys responding on Magnus' patch yet, so let's wait for them. Magnus, the actual conversion of your code should be trivial, could you respin it on top of these three patches using follow_pfn() then? Thanks, Hannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-media in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
