[PATCH v2 2/3] Generic handling of multi-page exclusions

[Petr Tesarik]

On Tue, 08 Apr 2014 17:19:03 +0900 (JST)
HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama at jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> From: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik at suse.cz>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] Generic handling of multi-page exclusions
> Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 08:54:36 +0200
> 
> > On Tue, 08 Apr 2014 10:49:07 +0900 (JST)
> > HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama at jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> Also, it seems to me better to introduce a new type for this
> >> processing rather than extending existing code. struct mem_map_data is
> >> not specific for the excluding processing.
> > 
> > Kind of agreed. OTOH it will most likely be embedded in struct
> > mem_map_data anyway, because exactly one such object per mm is needed.
> > 
> > Petr T
> 
> I don't understand well. It seems to me a single object is enough. Is
> it possible to nr_pages cover multiple mm's?

In fact, I believe it may be sufficient, but the loop nesting is like
this (pseudo-code):

  for each cycle:
    for each mm:
       call __exclude_unnecessary_pages

I'm not 100% sure that the region cannot change back and forth between
two consecutive calls to __exclude_unnecessary_pages.

Thinking about it some more, this can be harmful only if there are
overlapping memory maps... Can it happen, or can I safely ignore this
possibility?

Petr T