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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 15:00:40 -0700
From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To: Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@...wei.com>
Cc: david@...morbit.com, rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, keescook@...omium.org,
mhocko@...nel.org, labbott@...hat.com,
linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] struct page: add field for vm_struct
On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 11:45:50PM +0200, Igor Stoppa wrote:
> When a page is used for virtual memory, it is often necessary to obtain
> a handler to the corresponding vm_struct, which refers to the virtually
> continuous area generated when invoking vmalloc.
>
> The struct page has a "mapping" field, which can be re-used, to store a
> pointer to the parent area.
>
> This will avoid more expensive searches, later on.
>
> Signed-off-by: Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@...wei.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>
Regardless of the fate of the rest of this patchset, this makes sense
and we should have this.
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