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Pulling slabs out of struct page

Pulling slabs out of struct page

Posted Oct 9, 2021 15:55 UTC (Sat) by willy (subscriber, #9762)
In reply to: Pulling slabs out of struct page by luto
Parent article: Pulling slabs out of struct page

Oh, since you mentioned unspeakable things, the graphics stack does horrendous hacks, so a VMA no longer tells you anything about the page you found. It might be anon, or it might be a page that belongs to a graphics device. And now they want to do that to file mappings too.


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Pulling slabs out of struct page

Posted Oct 10, 2021 11:39 UTC (Sun) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935) [Link]

I won't deny that KVM does the unspeakable, but I think the idioms are more or less common to all users of MMU notifiers.


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