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From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel•org>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel•com>,
	Xueyuan chen <xueyuan.chen21@gmail•com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation•org, linux-mm@kvack•org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org, x86@kernel•org,
	catalin.marinas@arm•com, will@kernel•org, tglx@kernel•org,
	mingo@redhat•com, bp@alien8•de, dave.hansen@linux•intel.com,
	hpa@zytor•com, ljs@kernel•org, ziy@nvidia•com,
	baolin.wang@linux•alibaba.com, ryan.roberts@arm•com,
	dev.jain@arm•com, lance.yang@linux•dev,
	yang@os•amperecomputing.com, jannh@google•com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] mm: make persistent huge zero folio read-only
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2026 15:49:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <929875a2-9e94-4dbc-9c98-b342ccc3f4e2@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4e0696ee-895c-486d-aacc-71146f0e9047@intel.com>

On 5/27/26 17:55, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 5/26/26 20:56, Xueyuan chen wrote:> +#ifdef
> CONFIG_READONLY_HUGE_ZERO_FOLIO
>> +bool __init arch_make_huge_zero_folio_readonly(struct folio *folio);
>> +#endif
> 
> All of the #ifdeffery needs to die, IMNHO.
> 
> This function is also a bad idea. There is nothing "huge zero" specific
> about it. It takes any old folio and tries to make it read only.
> 
> Just make it:
> 
> 	bool __init arch_make_folio_readonly(struct folio *folio)
> 

I'm not sure whether we want a folio-based interface, though.

This will likely be the only folio (that will actually have a "struct folio" in
the future) compound page we'll ever mark read-only ... whereby I'd guess we'd
want other non-folio pages to be read-only in the future (encryption keys etc,
maybe?).

So I'd instead use a page-range based interface or sth like that.

-- 
Cheers,

David


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-06-01 13:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-27  3:56 [RFC PATCH 0/3] make persistent huge zero folio read-only Xueyuan chen
2026-05-27  3:56 ` [RFC PATCH 1/3] mm: " Xueyuan chen
2026-05-27 13:32   ` Dev Jain
2026-05-27 23:03     ` Xueyuan Chen
2026-05-27 15:55   ` Dave Hansen
2026-05-27 16:20     ` Jann Horn
2026-05-28 18:43       ` Yang Shi
2026-05-29  3:09         ` Lance Yang
2026-06-01 13:49     ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-06-01 15:43       ` Lance Yang
2026-06-01 15:46         ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-05-27  3:56 ` [RFC PATCH 2/3] arm64/mm: make huge zero folio read-only in linear map Xueyuan chen
2026-05-27  3:56 ` [RFC PATCH 3/3] x86/mm: make huge zero folio read-only in direct map Xueyuan chen
2026-05-27 15:58 ` [RFC PATCH 0/3] make persistent huge zero folio read-only Dave Hansen
2026-05-30  7:46   ` Lance Yang

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