Re: [PATCH 0/5] make *_gate_vma accept mm_struct instead of task_struct II

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Mar 11 04:22:48 EST 2011


Sorry... I confused them too. It's TS_COMPAT which is problematic.
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Stephen Wilson <wilsons at start.ca> wrote:

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 08:38:09AM -0800, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 08:00:32AM -0800, Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 07:31:56PM -0500, Stephen Wilson wrote: > > > The only architecture this change impacts in any significant way is x86_64. > > > The principle change on that architecture is to mirror TIF_IA32 via > > > a new flag in mm_context_t. > > > > The problem is -- you're adding a likely cache miss on mm_struct for > > every 32bit compat syscall now, even if they don't need mm_struct > > currently (and a lot of them do not) Unless there's a very good > > justification to make up for this performance issue elsewhere > > (including numbers) this seems like a bad idea. > > Hmm I see you're only setting it on exec time actually on rereading > the patches. I thought you were changing TS_COMPAT which is in > the syscall path. > > Never mind. I have no problems with doing such a change on exec > time. OK. Great! Does this mean I have your ACK'e!
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reviewed by? Thanks for taking a look! -- steve 

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