Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751281AbaKFVEQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2014 16:04:16 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:36767 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750998AbaKFVEM (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2014 16:04:12 -0500 Message-ID: <545BE218.8050506@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 16:03:20 -0500 From: Rik van Riel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: j.glisse@gmail.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Linus Torvalds , joro@8bytes.org, Mel Gorman , "H. Peter Anvin" , Peter Zijlstra , Andrea Arcangeli , Johannes Weiner , Larry Woodman , Dave Airlie , Brendan Conoboy , Joe Donohue , Duncan Poole , Sherry Cheung , Subhash Gutti , John Hubbard , Mark Hairgrove , Lucien Dunning , Cameron Buschardt , Arvind Gopalakrishnan , Shachar Raindel , Liran Liss , Roland Dreier , Ben Sander , Greg Stoner , John Bridgman , Michael Mantor , Paul Blinzer , Laurent Morichetti , Alexander Deucher , Oded Gabbay , =?UTF-8?B?SsOpcsO0bWUgR2xpc3Nl?= Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] mmu_notifier: keep track of active invalidation ranges References: <1415047353-29160-1-git-send-email-j.glisse@gmail.com> <1415047353-29160-3-git-send-email-j.glisse@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1415047353-29160-3-git-send-email-j.glisse@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/03/2014 03:42 PM, j.glisse@gmail.com wrote: > From: Jérôme Glisse > > The mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start() and > mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end() can be considered as forming > an "atomic" section for the cpu page table update point of view. > Between this two function the cpu page table content is unreliable > for the address range being invalidated. > > Current user such as kvm need to know when they can trust the > content of the cpu page table. This becomes even more important to > new users of the mmu_notifier api (such as HMM or ODP). > > This patch use a structure define at all call site to > invalidate_range_start() that is added to a list for the duration > of the invalidation. It adds two new helpers to allow querying if > a range is being invalidated or to wait for a range to become > valid. > > For proper synchronization, user must block new range invalidation > from inside there invalidate_range_start() callback, before > calling the helper functions. Otherwise there is no garanty that a > new range invalidation will not be added after the call to the > helper function to query for existing range. > > Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel - -- All rights reversed -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUW+IYAAoJEM553pKExN6DGQ0H/AsZn+UKNsKtys8kCnouMzvM SiCZQE4xCTdYM/vvyhg6Iw1INz0aNescYRhI2k++S16vgaaleXEDXthJ2gKO8qB7 dgZ3eBDj9SzYVee6i779w77Eq9w1nhoPLyzTMpyYyB5PvfwKU8kq/j44rBNFVkdU byKnQzWvzOkaAtifvsZYR/uTABB8D39O+++mARy39SqZRBDtb3aGL/4QidHI52qD OEqtRFTftZ/yaeKvmrGw16e6NtAiE9IN/51pGuSH8vLjg9v884lnealMtfuLPbKR e3LXaWZfl3cRJkBQjqe252wNHvqCX7T1dKBI0+V3rMqQuUHyuKLGg+Rq6NX1b7Q= =sdxT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/