Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752181AbYAVOn6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:43:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752826AbYAVOnu (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:43:50 -0500 Received: from host36-195-149-62.serverdedicati.aruba.it ([62.149.195.36]:41108 "EHLO mx.cpushare.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752139AbYAVOnt (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:43:49 -0500 Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:43:32 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Avi Kivity Cc: Izik Eidus , Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , steiner@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, daniel.blueman@quadrics.com, holt@sgi.com, Hugh Dickins , clameter@sgi.com Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v3 Message-ID: <20080122144332.GE7331@v2.random> References: <20080113162418.GE8736@v2.random> <20080116124256.44033d48@bree.surriel.com> <478E4356.7030303@qumranet.com> <20080117162302.GI7170@v2.random> <478F9C9C.7070500@qumranet.com> <20080117193252.GC24131@v2.random> <20080121125204.GJ6970@v2.random> <4795F9D2.1050503@qumranet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4795F9D2.1050503@qumranet.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1059 Lines: 30 On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 04:12:34PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > Andrea Arcangeli wrote: >> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h >> --- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h >> +++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h >> @@ -44,8 +44,10 @@ >> ({ \ >> int __young; \ >> __young = ptep_test_and_clear_young(__vma, __address, __ptep); \ >> - if (__young) \ >> + if (__young) { \ >> flush_tlb_page(__vma, __address); \ >> + mmu_notifier(age_page, (__vma)->vm_mm, __address); \ >> + } \ >> __young; \ >> }) >> > > I think that unconditionally doing > > __young |= mmu_notifier(test_and_clear_young, ...); > > allows hardware with accessed bits more control over what is going on. Agreed, likely it'll have to be mmu_notifier_age_page(). -- 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/