From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] Allow setting caching mode in arch_add_memory() for P2PDMA
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 10:08:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPcyv4g6OYvD57LdWcqGuWVanckQv4a1uzJrE1OZyMH+z=5KZw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200227180346.GM31668@ziepe.ca>
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 10:03 AM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 09:55:04AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 9:43 AM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 10:21:50AM -0700, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 2020-02-27 10:17 a.m., Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > > >> Instead of this, this series proposes a change to arch_add_memory()
> > > > >> to take the pgprot required by the mapping which allows us to
> > > > >> explicitly set pagetable entries for P2PDMA memory to WC.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is there a particular reason why WC was selected here? I thought for
> > > > > the p2pdma cases there was no kernel user that touched the memory?
> > > >
> > > > Yes, that's correct. I choose WC here because the existing users are
> > > > registering memory blocks without side effects which fit the WC
> > > > semantics well.
> > >
> > > Hm, AFAIK WC memory is not compatible with the spinlocks/mutexs/etc in
> > > Linux, so while it is true the memory has no side effects, there would
> > > be surprising concurrency risks if anything in the kernel tried to
> > > write to it.
> > >
> > > Not compatible means the locks don't contain stores to WC memory the
> > > way you would expect. AFAIK on many CPUs extra barriers are required
> > > to keep WC stores ordered, the same way ARM already has extra barriers
> > > to keep UC stores ordered with locking..
> > >
> > > The spinlocks are defined to contain UC stores though.
> >
> > How are spinlocks and mutexes getting into p2pdma ranges in the first
> > instance? Even with UC, the system has bigger problems if it's trying
> > to send bus locks targeting PCI, see the flurry of activity of trying
> > to trigger faults on split locks [1].
>
> This is not what I was trying to explain.
>
> Consider
>
> static spinlock lock; // CPU DRAM
> static idx = 0;
> u64 *wc_memory = [..];
>
> spin_lock(&lock);
> wc_memory[0] = idx++;
> spin_unlock(&lock);
>
> You'd expect that the PCI device will observe stores where idx is
> strictly increasing, but this is not guarenteed. idx may decrease, idx
> may skip. It just won't duplicate.
>
> Or perhaps
>
> wc_memory[0] = foo;
> writel(doorbell)
>
> foo is not guarenteed observable by the device before doorbell reaches
> the device.
>
> All of these are things that do not happen with UC or NC memory, and
> are surprising violations of our programming model.
>
> Generic kernel code should never touch WC memory unless the code is
> specifically designed to handle it.
Ah, yes, agree.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-27 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-21 18:24 [PATCH v3 0/7] Allow setting caching mode in arch_add_memory() for P2PDMA Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-21 18:24 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] mm/memory_hotplug: Drop the flags field from struct mhp_restrictions Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-28 21:31 ` Dan Williams
2020-03-03 9:50 ` Michal Hocko
2020-02-21 18:24 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] mm/memory_hotplug: Rename mhp_restrictions to mhp_params Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-24 9:11 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-29 20:44 ` Dan Williams
2020-03-03 9:50 ` Michal Hocko
2020-02-21 18:24 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] x86/mm: Thread pgprot_t through init_memory_mapping() Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-29 22:37 ` Dan Williams
2020-03-03 9:52 ` Michal Hocko
2020-02-21 18:25 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] x86/mm: Introduce _set_memory_prot() Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-29 22:33 ` Dan Williams
2020-03-02 18:46 ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-21 18:25 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] powerpc/mm: Thread pgprot_t through create_section_mapping() Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-21 18:25 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] mm/memory_hotplug: Add pgprot_t to mhp_params Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-24 9:26 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-29 22:44 ` Dan Williams
2020-03-02 18:55 ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-03-02 20:26 ` Dan Williams
2020-02-21 18:25 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] mm/memremap: Set caching mode for PCI P2PDMA memory to WC Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-29 22:47 ` Dan Williams
2020-03-02 21:20 ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-27 17:17 ` [PATCH v3 0/7] Allow setting caching mode in arch_add_memory() for P2PDMA Jason Gunthorpe
2020-02-27 17:21 ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-27 17:43 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-02-27 17:54 ` Logan Gunthorpe
2020-02-27 17:55 ` Dan Williams
2020-02-27 18:03 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-02-27 18:08 ` Dan Williams [this message]
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