From: "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
To: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>,
Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
Kyle Zeng <kylebot@openai.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/userfaultfd: only allocate anon_vma in CoW mappings
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:05:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <atCUhtQ2v1WtNKwf@gremlin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a5c6edb4-9e8d-47f1-a316-6627e518fa7a@kernel.org>
On Wed, Oct 14, 2026 at 08:29:35PM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> > Hmm really? Is it possible to do that without the hugetlb lock?
>
> Yes, we don't have to sync against PMD sharing if PMD sharing is impossible.
Ahhh I see.
> Will send that out for the next cycle.
Looks sane!
>
> > It'd be good in general if we could get rid of that lock as a whole :) but maybe
> > dreaming.
>
> Yeah :)
I will probably have to go and look at that more deeply for
mmap_prepare/scalable CoW reasons. I will wear goggles... :)
--
Cheers, Lorenzo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-15 9:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-14 11:53 David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-14 14:51 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-10-14 18:04 ` Kyle Zeng
2026-10-14 18:29 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-14 18:29 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-15 9:05 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) [this message]
2026-10-15 8:16 ` Lance Yang
2026-10-15 8:33 ` Mike Rapoport
2026-10-15 8:37 ` Muchun Song
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