Re: [PATCH RESEND v6 00/16] mm: Page fault enhancements

[Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>]

I tested the entire patchset because I'm very interested in fault
retries with userfaultfd and the series has been stable and worked
well on x86.

Tested-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>


On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 7:54 AM Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> [Resend v6]
>
> This is v6 of the series.  It is majorly a rebase to 5.6-rc2, nothing
> else to be expected (plus some tests after the rebase).  Instead of
> rewrite the cover letter I decided to use what we have for v5.
>
> Adding extra CCs for both Bobby Powers <bobbypowers@gmail.com> and
> Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>.
>
> Online repo: https://github.com/xzpeter/linux/tree/mm-pf-signal-retry
>
> Any review comment is appreciated.  Thanks,
>
> =============== v5 cover letter ==================
>
> This is v5 of the series.  As Matthew suggested, I split the previous
> patch "mm: Return faster for non-fatal signals in user mode faults"
> into a few smaller ones:
>
>   1. One patch to introduce fatal_signal_pending(), and use it in
>      archs that can directly apply
>
>   2. A few more patches to let the rest archs to use the new helper.
>      With that we can have an unified entry for signal detection
>
>   3. One last patch to change fatal_signal_pending() to detect
>      userspace non-fatal signal
>
> Nothing should have changed in the rest patches.  Because the fault
> retry patches will depend on the previous ones, I decided to simply
> repost all the patches.
>
> Here's the new patchset layout:
>
> Patch 1-2:      cleanup, and potential bugfix of hugetlbfs on fault retry
>
> Patch 3-9:      let page fault to respond to non-fatal signals faster
>
> Patch 10:       remove the userfaultfd NOPAGE emulation
>
> Patch 11-14:    allow page fault to retry more than once
>
> Patch 15-16:    let gup code to use FAULT_FLAG_KILLABLE too
>
> I would really appreciate any review comments for the series,
> especially for the first two patches which IMHO are even not related
> to this patchset and they should either cleanup or fix things.
>
> Smoke tested on x86 only.
>
> Thanks,
>
> v5:
> - split "mm: Return faster for non-fatal signals in user mode faults"
>   into a few more patches, let all archs to use an unified entry for
>   fast signal handling (fatal_signal_pending)
>
> v4:
> - use lore.kernel.org for all the links in commit messages [Kirill]
> - one more patch ("mm/gup: Fix __get_user_pages() on fault retry of
>   hugetlb") to fix hugetlb path on fault retry
> - one more patch ("mm/gup: Allow to react to fatal signals") to:
>   - use down_read_killable() properly [Linus]
>   - pass in FAULT_FLAG_KILLABLE for all GUP [Linus]
> - one more patch ("mm/userfaultfd: Honor FAULT_FLAG_KILLABLE in fault
>   path") to let handle_userfaultfd() respect FAULT_FLAG_KILLABLE.
>   Should have no functional change after previous two new patches.
>
> v3:
> - check fatal signals in __get_user_page_locked() [Linus]
> - add r-bs
>
> v2:
> - resent previous version, rebase only
>
> =============== v1 cover letter ==================
>
> This series is split out of userfaultfd-wp series to only cover the
> general page fault changes, since it seems to make sense itself.
>
> Basically it does two things:
>
>   (a) Allows the page fault handlers to be more interactive on not
>       only SIGKILL, but also the rest of userspace signals (especially
>       for user-mode faults), and,
>
>   (b) Allows the page fault retry (VM_FAULT_RETRY) to happen for more
>       than once.
>
> I'm keeping the CC list as in uffd-wp v5, hopefully I'm not sending
> too much spams...
>
> And, instead of writting again the cover letter, I'm just copy-pasting
> my previous link here which has more details on why we do this:
>
>   https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/10691991/
>
> The major change from that latest version should be that we introduced
> a new page fault flag FAULT_FLAG_INTERRUPTIBLE as suggested by Linus
> [1] to represents that we would like the fault handler to respond to
> non-fatal signals.  Also, we're more careful now on when to do the
> immediate return of the page fault for such signals.  For example, now
> we'll only check against signal_pending() for user-mode page faults
> and we keep the kernel-mode page fault patch untouched for it.  More
> information can be found in separate patches.
>
> The patchset is only lightly tested on x86.
>
> All comments are greatly welcomed.  Thanks,
>
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/6/25/1382
>
> Peter Xu (16):
>   mm/gup: Rename "nonblocking" to "locked" where proper
>   mm/gup: Fix __get_user_pages() on fault retry of hugetlb
>   mm: Introduce fault_signal_pending()
>   x86/mm: Use helper fault_signal_pending()
>   arc/mm: Use helper fault_signal_pending()
>   arm64/mm: Use helper fault_signal_pending()
>   powerpc/mm: Use helper fault_signal_pending()
>   sh/mm: Use helper fault_signal_pending()
>   mm: Return faster for non-fatal signals in user mode faults
>   userfaultfd: Don't retake mmap_sem to emulate NOPAGE
>   mm: Introduce FAULT_FLAG_DEFAULT
>   mm: Introduce FAULT_FLAG_INTERRUPTIBLE
>   mm: Allow VM_FAULT_RETRY for multiple times
>   mm/gup: Allow VM_FAULT_RETRY for multiple times
>   mm/gup: Allow to react to fatal signals
>   mm/userfaultfd: Honor FAULT_FLAG_KILLABLE in fault path
>
>  arch/alpha/mm/fault.c           |  6 +--
>  arch/arc/mm/fault.c             | 35 +++++--------
>  arch/arm/mm/fault.c             |  7 +--
>  arch/arm64/mm/fault.c           | 26 +++------
>  arch/hexagon/mm/vm_fault.c      |  5 +-
>  arch/ia64/mm/fault.c            |  5 +-
>  arch/m68k/mm/fault.c            |  7 +--
>  arch/microblaze/mm/fault.c      |  5 +-
>  arch/mips/mm/fault.c            |  5 +-
>  arch/nds32/mm/fault.c           |  5 +-
>  arch/nios2/mm/fault.c           |  7 +--
>  arch/openrisc/mm/fault.c        |  5 +-
>  arch/parisc/mm/fault.c          |  8 ++-
>  arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c         | 20 ++-----
>  arch/riscv/mm/fault.c           |  9 +---
>  arch/s390/mm/fault.c            | 10 ++--
>  arch/sh/mm/fault.c              | 13 +++--
>  arch/sparc/mm/fault_32.c        |  5 +-
>  arch/sparc/mm/fault_64.c        |  5 +-
>  arch/um/kernel/trap.c           |  3 +-
>  arch/unicore32/mm/fault.c       |  8 ++-
>  arch/x86/mm/fault.c             | 30 +++++------
>  arch/xtensa/mm/fault.c          |  5 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_vm.c | 12 +++--
>  fs/userfaultfd.c                | 62 ++++++++++------------
>  include/linux/mm.h              | 81 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  include/linux/sched/signal.h    | 14 +++++
>  mm/filemap.c                    |  2 +-
>  mm/gup.c                        | 93 +++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  mm/hugetlb.c                    | 17 +++---
>  mm/internal.h                   |  6 +--
>  31 files changed, 281 insertions(+), 240 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.24.1
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