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Re: [PATCH v6 03/11] mm, x86: Add support for eXclusive Page Frame Ownership (XPFO)

From Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v6 03/11] mm, x86: Add support for eXclusive Page Frame Ownership (XPFO)
Date 2017-09-21 02:10 +0200
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On 09/20/2017 05:02 PM, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> ...and makes it easier to pair tlb flushes with changing the
> protections. I guess we still need the for loop, because we need to
> set/unset the xpfo bits as necessary, but I'll switch it to a single
> set_kpte(). This also implies that the xpfo bits should all be the
> same on every page in the mapping, which I think is true.

FWIW, it's a bit bonkers to keep all this duplicate xpfo metadata for
compound pages.  You could probably get away with only keeping it for
the head page.

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Re: [PATCH v6 03/11] mm, x86: Add support for eXclusive Page Frame  Ownership (XPFO) Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@huawei.com> - 2017-09-11 09:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v6 03/11] mm, x86: Add support for eXclusive Page Frame  Ownership (XPFO) Tycho Andersen <tycho@docker.com> - 2017-09-11 17:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v6 03/11] mm, x86: Add support for eXclusive Page Frame  Ownership (XPFO) Juerg Haefliger <juerg.haefliger@canonical.com> - 2017-09-11 18:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v6 03/11] mm, x86: Add support for eXclusive Page Frame  Ownership (XPFO) Tycho Andersen <tycho@docker.com> - 2017-09-11 19:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v6 03/11] mm, x86: Add support for eXclusive Page Frame  Ownership (XPFO) Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@huawei.com> - 2017-09-12 10:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v6 03/11] mm, x86: Add support for eXclusive Page Frame  Ownership (XPFO) Tycho Andersen <tycho@docker.com> - 2017-09-12 16:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v6 03/11] mm, x86: Add support for eXclusive Page Frame  Ownership (XPFO) Tycho Andersen <tycho@docker.com> - 2017-09-12 20:20 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v6 03/11] mm, x86: Add support for eXclusive Page Frame  Ownership (XPFO) Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@huawei.com> - 2017-09-14 08:20 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v6 03/11] mm, x86: Add support for eXclusive Page Frame  Ownership (XPFO) Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> - 2017-09-21 01:50 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v6 03/11] mm, x86: Add support for eXclusive Page Frame  Ownership (XPFO) Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> - 2017-09-21 02:10 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v6 03/11] mm, x86: Add support for eXclusive Page Frame  Ownership (XPFO) Tycho Andersen <tycho@docker.com> - 2017-09-21 02:10 +0200

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