On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 09:48:43PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > On 05/26/2014 10:56 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > include/linux/mm.h | 3 + > > include/linux/mm_types.h | 5 + > > kernel/fork.c | 2 > > mm/mlock.c | 133 > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- > > mm/mmap.c | 18 ++++-- > > 5 files changed, 141 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) > > I'm guessing you will also want a patch that adds some code to > rmap.c, madvise.c, and a few other places to actually enforce > the VM_PINNED semantics?
Eventually, yes. As it stands they're not needed, because perf pages aren't in the pagecache and IB goes a big get_user_pages() and the elevated refcount stops everything dead. But yes, once we go do fancy things like migrate the pages into UNMOVABLE blocks, then we need to have VM_PINNED itself mean something, instead of it describing something. But before we go down there, I'd like to get the IB bits sorted and general agreement on the path.
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