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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC 0/3] pagemap: make useable for non-privilege users
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Hi Konstantin,

Would you still be intending to re-submit this patch? We'd be quite
keen to assist, so if there's anything further I can do please let me
know!

Just to re-confirm - we do think that the patch will solve our problem
(relatively minor changes required on our side).

Thanks,
Mark

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Mark Williamson
<mwilliamson@undo-software.com> wrote:
> Hi Konstantin,
>
> I modified our code to check for the map-exclusive flag where it used
> to compare pageframe numbers. First tests look pretty promising, so
> this patch looks like a viable approach for us.
>
> Is there anything further we can do to help?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Mark Williamson
> <mwilliamson@undo-software.com> wrote:
>> Hi Konstantin,
>>
>> Thanks very much for continuing to look at this! It's very much
>> appreciated. I've been investigating from our end but got caught up
>> in some gnarly details of our pagemap-consuming code.
>>
>> I like the approach and it seems like the information you're exposing
>> will be useful for our application. I'll test the patch and see if it
>> works for us as-is.
>>
>> Will follow up with any comments on the individual patches.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark
>>
>> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Konstantin Khlebnikov
>> <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru> wrote:
>>> This patchset tries to make pagemap useable again in the safe way.
>>> First patch adds bit 'map-exlusive' which is set if page is mapped only here.
>>> Second patch restores access for non-privileged users but hides pfn if task
>>> has no capability CAP_SYS_ADMIN. Third patch removes page-shift bits and
>>> completes migration to the new pagemap format (flags soft-dirty and
>>> mmap-exlusive are available only in the new format).
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Konstantin Khlebnikov (3):
>>> pagemap: add mmap-exclusive bit for marking pages mapped only here
>>> pagemap: hide physical addresses from non-privileged users
>>> pagemap: switch to the new format and do some cleanup
>>>
>>>
>>> Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt | 3 -
>>> fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 178 +++++++++++++++++-------------------------
>>> tools/vm/page-types.c | 35 ++++----
>>> 3 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 125 deletions(-)


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