On Fri, 11 Mar 2022 09:11:23 -0800 Beau Belgrave <beaub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Maybe I am mistaken, but I remember reading in the case of a kernel > allocated page shared with user space they must be reserved. It was > stated that the PTE may not know the PFN belongs to user or kernel. > > If this is not the case, I don't see why we couldn't allocate zero'd > pages as you describe. We just need to make sure we don't crash user > processes touching the page if it does get paged out (and ideally not > slow down their execution). Anything allocated by the kernel via alloc_page() will never be paged out. As the kernel may use it in any location (including NMIs). The ftrace ring buffer allocates its pages this way. Now if you were mapping some file system page, then that would be a different story. -- Steve
