From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
To: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org,
bskeggs@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, jhubbard@nvidia.com,
rcampbell@nvidia.com, jglisse@redhat.com, hch@infradead.org,
daniel@ffwll.ch, willy@infradead.org, bsingharora@gmail.com,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 5/8] mm: Device exclusive memory access
Date: Wed, 19 May 2021 10:04:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YKUa8HZjfFW2Dhb1@t490s> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2569629.VzlulnA7BY@nvdebian>
On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 11:11:55PM +1000, Alistair Popple wrote:
> On Wednesday, 19 May 2021 10:15:41 PM AEST Peter Xu wrote:
> > External email: Use caution opening links or attachments
> >
> > On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 09:04:53PM +1000, Alistair Popple wrote:
> > > Failing fork() because we couldn't take a lock doesn't seem like the right
> > > approach though, especially as there is already existing code that
> > > retries. I get this adds complexity though, so would be happy to take a
> > > look at cleaning copy_pte_range() up in future.
> >
> > Yes, I proposed that as this one won't affect any existing applications
> > (unlike the existing ones) but only new userspace driver apps that will use
> > this new atomic feature.
> >
> > IMHO it'll be a pity to add extra complexity and maintainance burden into
> > fork() if only for keeping the "logical correctness of fork()" however the
> > code never triggers. If we start with trylock we'll know whether people
> > will use it, since people will complain with a reason when needed; however
> > I still doubt whether a sane userspace device driver should fork() within
> > busy interaction with the device underneath..
>
> I will refrain from commenting on the sanity or otherwise of doing that :-)
>
> Agree such a scenario seems unlikely in practice (and possibly unreasonable).
> Keeping the "logical correctness of fork()" still seems worthwhile to me, but
> if the added complexity/maintenance burden for an admittedly fairly specific
> feature is going to stop progress here I am happy to take the fail fork
> approach. I could then possibly fix it up as a future clean up to
> copy_pte_range(). Perhaps others have thoughts?
Yes, it's more about making this series easier to be accepted, and it'll be
great to have others' input.
Btw, just to mention that I don't even think fail fork() on failed trylock() is
against "logical correctness of fork()": IMHO it's still 100% correct just like
most syscalls can return with -EAGAIN, that suggests the userspace to try again
the syscall, and I hope that also works for fork(). I'd be more than glad to
be corrected too.
--
Peter Xu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-19 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-07 8:42 [PATCH v8 0/8] Add support for SVM atomics in Nouveau Alistair Popple
2021-04-07 8:42 ` [PATCH v8 1/8] mm: Remove special swap entry functions Alistair Popple
2021-05-18 2:17 ` Peter Xu
2021-05-18 11:58 ` Alistair Popple
2021-05-18 14:17 ` Peter Xu
2021-04-07 8:42 ` [PATCH v8 2/8] mm/swapops: Rework swap entry manipulation code Alistair Popple
2021-04-07 8:42 ` [PATCH v8 3/8] mm/rmap: Split try_to_munlock from try_to_unmap Alistair Popple
2021-05-18 20:04 ` Liam Howlett
2021-05-19 12:38 ` Alistair Popple
2021-05-20 20:24 ` Liam Howlett
2021-05-21 2:23 ` Alistair Popple
2021-04-07 8:42 ` [PATCH v8 4/8] mm/rmap: Split migration into its own function Alistair Popple
2021-04-07 8:42 ` [PATCH v8 5/8] mm: Device exclusive memory access Alistair Popple
2021-05-18 2:08 ` Peter Xu
2021-05-18 13:19 ` Alistair Popple
2021-05-18 17:27 ` Peter Xu
2021-05-18 17:33 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-05-18 18:01 ` Peter Xu
2021-05-18 19:45 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-05-18 20:29 ` Peter Xu
2021-05-18 23:03 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-05-18 23:45 ` Peter Xu
2021-05-19 11:04 ` Alistair Popple
2021-05-19 12:15 ` Peter Xu
2021-05-19 13:11 ` Alistair Popple
2021-05-19 14:04 ` Peter Xu [this message]
2021-05-19 13:28 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-05-19 14:09 ` Peter Xu
2021-05-19 18:11 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-05-19 11:35 ` Alistair Popple
2021-05-19 12:21 ` Peter Xu
2021-05-19 12:46 ` Alistair Popple
2021-05-21 6:53 ` Alistair Popple
2021-05-18 21:16 ` Peter Xu
2021-05-19 10:49 ` Alistair Popple
2021-05-19 12:24 ` Peter Xu
2021-05-19 12:46 ` Alistair Popple
2021-04-07 8:42 ` [PATCH v8 6/8] mm: Selftests for exclusive device memory Alistair Popple
2021-04-07 8:42 ` [PATCH v8 7/8] nouveau/svm: Refactor nouveau_range_fault Alistair Popple
2021-04-07 8:42 ` [PATCH v8 8/8] nouveau/svm: Implement atomic SVM access Alistair Popple
2021-05-21 4:04 ` Ben Skeggs
2021-05-06 7:43 ` [PATCH v8 0/8] Add support for SVM atomics in Nouveau Alistair Popple
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