From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: linux-samsung-soc <linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 05/15] mm/frame-vector: Use FOLL_LONGTERM
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2020 15:02:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201104190214.GW36674@ziepe.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d3497583-2338-596e-c764-8c571b7d22cf@nvidia.com>
On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 10:44:56AM -0800, John Hubbard wrote:
> On 11/4/20 10:17 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 04:41:19PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 04:37:58PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 05:26:58PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > > > What we're discussing is whether gup_fast and pup_fast also obey this,
> > > > > or fall over and can give you the struct page that's backing the
> > > > > dma_mmap_* memory. Since the _fast variant doesn't check for
> > > > > vma->vm_flags, and afaict that's the only thing which closes this gap.
> > > > > And like you restate, that would be a bit a problem. So where's that
> > > > > check which Jason&me aren't spotting?
> > > >
> > > > remap_pte_range uses pte_mkspecial to set up the PTEs, and gup_pte_range
> > > > errors out on pte_special. Of course this only works for the
> > > > CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL case, for other architectures we do have
> > > > a real problem.
> > >
> > > Except that we don't really support pte-level gup-fast without
> > > CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL, and in fact all architectures selecting
> > > HAVE_FAST_GUP also select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL, so we should be fine.
> >
> > Mm, I thought it was probably the special flag..
> >
> > Knowing that CONFIG_HAVE_FAST_GUP can't be set without
> > CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL is pretty insightful, can we put that in
> > the Kconfig?
> >
> > config HAVE_FAST_GUP
> > depends on MMU
> > depends on ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL
> > bool
> >
> Well, the !CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL case points out in a comment that
> gup-fast is not *completely* unavailable there, so I don't think you want
> to shut it off like that:
>
> /*
> * If we can't determine whether or not a pte is special, then fail immediately
> * for ptes. Note, we can still pin HugeTLB and THP as these are guaranteed not
> * to be special.
> *
> * For a futex to be placed on a THP tail page, get_futex_key requires a
> * get_user_pages_fast_only implementation that can pin pages. Thus it's still
> * useful to have gup_huge_pmd even if we can't operate on ptes.
> */
I saw that once and I really couldn't make sense of it..
What use is having futex's that only work on THP pages? Confused
CH said there was no case of HAVE_FAST_GUP !ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL, is
one hidden someplace then?
Jason
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Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-30 10:08 [PATCH v5 00/15] follow_pfn and other iomap races Daniel Vetter
2020-10-30 10:08 ` [PATCH v5 01/15] drm/exynos: Stop using frame_vector helpers Daniel Vetter
2020-10-30 10:08 ` [PATCH v5 02/15] drm/exynos: Use FOLL_LONGTERM for g2d cmdlists Daniel Vetter
2020-10-30 10:08 ` [PATCH v5 03/15] misc/habana: Stop using frame_vector helpers Daniel Vetter
2020-10-30 10:08 ` [PATCH v5 04/15] misc/habana: Use FOLL_LONGTERM for userptr Daniel Vetter
2020-10-30 10:08 ` [PATCH v5 05/15] mm/frame-vector: Use FOLL_LONGTERM Daniel Vetter
2020-10-30 14:11 ` Tomasz Figa
2020-10-30 14:37 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-11-02 18:19 ` Tomasz Figa
2020-10-31 2:55 ` John Hubbard
2020-10-31 14:45 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-11-01 5:22 ` John Hubbard
2020-11-01 10:30 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-11-01 21:13 ` John Hubbard
2020-11-01 22:50 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-11-04 14:00 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-04 15:54 ` Daniel Vetter
[not found] ` <20201104162125.GA13007@infradead.org>
2020-11-04 16:26 ` Daniel Vetter
[not found] ` <20201104163758.GA17425@infradead.org>
[not found] ` <20201104164119.GA18218@infradead.org>
2020-11-04 18:17 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-04 18:44 ` John Hubbard
2020-11-04 19:02 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2020-11-05 9:25 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-11-05 12:49 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-06 4:08 ` John Hubbard
2020-11-06 10:01 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-11-06 10:27 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-11-06 12:55 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-09 8:44 ` Thomas Hellström
2020-11-09 20:19 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-06 12:58 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-30 10:08 ` [PATCH v5 06/15] media: videobuf2: Move frame_vector into media subsystem Daniel Vetter
2020-10-30 10:08 ` [PATCH v5 07/15] mm: Close race in generic_access_phys Daniel Vetter
2020-10-30 10:08 ` [PATCH v5 08/15] mm: Add unsafe_follow_pfn Daniel Vetter
[not found] ` <20201102072931.GA16419@infradead.org>
2020-11-02 12:56 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-11-02 13:01 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-02 13:23 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-11-02 15:52 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-02 16:42 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-11-02 17:16 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-10-30 10:08 ` [PATCH v5 09/15] media/videbuf1|2: Mark follow_pfn usage as unsafe Daniel Vetter
2020-10-30 10:08 ` [PATCH v5 10/15] vfio/type1: Mark follow_pfn " Daniel Vetter
2020-10-30 10:08 ` [PATCH v5 11/15] PCI: Obey iomem restrictions for procfs mmap Daniel Vetter
2020-11-03 21:28 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-11-03 22:09 ` Dan Williams
2020-11-04 8:44 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-11-04 16:50 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-11-04 20:12 ` Dan Williams
2020-11-05 9:34 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-10-30 10:08 ` [PATCH v5 12/15] /dev/mem: Only set filp->f_mapping Daniel Vetter
2020-10-30 10:08 ` [PATCH v5 13/15] resource: Move devmem revoke code to resource framework Daniel Vetter
2020-10-31 6:36 ` John Hubbard
2020-10-31 14:40 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-11-03 6:06 ` [resource] 22b17dc667: Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception lkp
2020-11-03 6:15 ` John Hubbard
2020-11-03 10:10 ` Daniel Vetter
2020-10-30 10:08 ` [PATCH v5 14/15] sysfs: Support zapping of binary attr mmaps Daniel Vetter
2020-10-30 10:08 ` [PATCH v5 15/15] PCI: Revoke mappings like devmem Daniel Vetter
2020-10-30 19:22 ` Dan Williams
2020-11-03 21:30 ` Bjorn Helgaas
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