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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>,
Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>, kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: steiner@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: daniel.blueman@quadrics.com, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: [patch 0/6] [RFC] MMU Notifiers V2
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:28:40 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080128202840.974253868@sgi.com> (raw)
This is a patchset implementing MMU notifier callbacks based on Andrea's
earlier work. These are needed if Linux pages are referenced from something
else than tracked by the rmaps of the kernel.
Issues:
- Feedback from uses of the callbacks for KVM, RDMA, XPmem and GRU
- RCU quiescent periods are required on registering and unregistering
notifiers to guarantee visibility to other processors.
Currently only mmu_notifier_release() does the correct thing.
It is up to the user to provide RCU quiescent periods for
register/unregister functions if they are called outside of the
->release method.
Andrea's mmu_notifier #4 -> RFC V1
- Merge subsystem rmap based with Linux rmap based approach
- Move Linux rmap based notifiers out of macro
- Try to account for what locks are held while the notifiers are
called.
- Develop a patch sequence that separates out the different types of
hooks so that we can review their use.
- Avoid adding include to linux/mm_types.h
- Integrate RCU logic suggested by Peter.
V1->V2:
- Improve RCU support
- Use mmap_sem for mmu_notifier register / unregister
- Drop invalidate_page from COW, mm/fremap.c and mm/rmap.c since we
already have invalidate_range() callbacks there.
- Clean compile for !MMU_NOTIFIER
- Isolate filemap_xip strangeness into its own diff
- Pass a the flag to invalidate_range to indicate if a spinlock
is held.
- Add invalidate_all()
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next reply other threads:[~2008-01-28 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-28 20:28 Christoph Lameter [this message]
2008-01-28 20:28 ` [patch 1/6] mmu_notifier: Core code Christoph Lameter
2008-01-28 22:06 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-29 0:05 ` Robin Holt
2008-01-29 1:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-29 13:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-29 14:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-29 19:49 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-29 20:41 ` Avi Kivity
2008-01-29 16:07 ` Robin Holt
2008-02-05 18:05 ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-02-05 18:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-02-05 18:19 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-28 20:28 ` [patch 2/6] mmu_notifier: Callbacks to invalidate address ranges Christoph Lameter
2008-01-29 16:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-29 18:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-29 20:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-29 21:36 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-29 21:53 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-29 22:35 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-29 22:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-29 23:43 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-30 0:34 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-29 19:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-29 21:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-29 21:35 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-29 22:02 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-29 22:39 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-30 0:00 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-30 0:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-30 0:22 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-30 0:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-30 8:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-01-30 0:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-30 0:28 ` Jack Steiner
2008-01-30 0:35 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-30 13:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-30 14:43 ` Jack Steiner
2008-01-30 19:41 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-30 20:29 ` Jack Steiner
2008-01-30 20:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-30 16:11 ` Robin Holt
2008-01-30 17:04 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-30 17:30 ` Robin Holt
2008-01-30 18:25 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-30 19:50 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-30 22:18 ` Robin Holt
2008-01-30 23:52 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-31 0:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-31 0:34 ` [kvm-devel] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-31 1:46 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-31 2:34 ` Robin Holt
2008-01-31 2:37 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-31 2:56 ` [kvm-devel] mmu_notifier: invalidate_range_start with lock=1 Christoph Lameter
2008-01-31 10:52 ` [kvm-devel] [patch 2/6] mmu_notifier: Callbacks to invalidate address ranges Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-31 2:08 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-31 2:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-31 2:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-31 13:39 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-30 19:35 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-28 20:28 ` [patch 3/6] mmu_notifier: invalidate_page callbacks for subsystems with rmap Christoph Lameter
2008-01-29 16:28 ` Robin Holt
2008-01-28 20:28 ` [patch 4/6] MMU notifier: invalidate_page callbacks using Linux rmaps Christoph Lameter
2008-01-29 14:03 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-29 14:24 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-01-29 19:51 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-28 20:28 ` [patch 5/6] mmu_notifier: Callbacks for xip_filemap.c Christoph Lameter
2008-01-28 20:28 ` [patch 6/6] mmu_notifier: Add invalidate_all() Christoph Lameter
2008-01-29 16:31 ` Robin Holt
2008-01-29 20:02 ` Christoph Lameter
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