Re: [PATCH 2/4] mm: introduce new VM_NOZEROPAGE flag

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On 10/18/2014 06:28 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> Currently it is an all or nothing thing, but for a future change we might want to just
> tag the guest memory instead of the complete user address space.

I think it's a bad idea to reserve a flag for potential future use.  If
you_need_  it in the future, let's have the discussion then.  For now, I
think it should probably just be stored in the mm somewhere.

I agree with Dave (I thought I disagreed, but I changed my mind while writing down my thoughts). Just define mm_forbids_zeropage in arch/s390/include/asm, and make it return mm->context.use_skey---with a comment explaining how this is only for processes that use KVM, and then only for guests that use storage keys.

Paolo (who was just taught what storage keys really are)
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