From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
John Hubbard <john.hubbard@gmail.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>, Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-rdma <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: set PG_dma_pinned on get_user_pages*()
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 14:42:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180627124255.np2a6rxy6rb6v7mm@quack2.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180627115927.GQ32348@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On Wed 27-06-18 13:59:27, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 27-06-18 13:53:49, Jan Kara wrote:
> > On Wed 27-06-18 13:32:21, Michal Hocko wrote:
> [...]
> > > Appart from that, do we really care about 32b here? Big DIO, IB users
> > > seem to be 64b only AFAIU.
> >
> > IMO it is a bad habit to leave unpriviledged-user-triggerable oops in the
> > kernel even for uncommon platforms...
>
> Absolutely agreed! I didn't mean to keep the blow up for 32b. I just
> wanted to say that we can stay with a simple solution for 32b. I thought
> the g-u-p-longterm has plugged the most obvious breakage already. But
> maybe I just misunderstood.
Most yes, but if you try hard enough, you can still trigger the oops e.g.
with appropriately set up direct IO when racing with writeback / reclaim.
Honza
--
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-27 12:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-17 1:25 [PATCH 0/2] mm: gup: don't unmap or drop filesystem buffers john.hubbard
2018-06-17 1:25 ` [PATCH 1/2] consolidate get_user_pages error handling john.hubbard
2018-06-17 1:25 ` [PATCH 2/2] mm: set PG_dma_pinned on get_user_pages*() john.hubbard
2018-06-17 19:53 ` Dan Williams
2018-06-17 20:04 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2018-06-17 20:10 ` Dan Williams
2018-06-17 20:28 ` John Hubbard
2018-06-17 20:28 ` John Hubbard
2018-06-18 8:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-18 17:50 ` John Hubbard
2018-06-18 17:50 ` John Hubbard
2018-06-18 17:56 ` Dan Williams
2018-06-18 18:14 ` John Hubbard
2018-06-18 18:14 ` John Hubbard
2018-06-18 19:21 ` Dan Williams
2018-06-18 19:31 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2018-06-18 20:04 ` Dan Williams
2018-06-18 21:36 ` John Hubbard
2018-06-19 8:29 ` Jan Kara
2018-06-19 9:02 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-06-19 10:41 ` Jan Kara
2018-06-19 18:11 ` John Hubbard
2018-06-20 1:24 ` Dan Williams
2018-06-20 1:34 ` John Hubbard
2018-06-20 1:57 ` Dan Williams
2018-06-20 2:03 ` John Hubbard
2018-06-20 12:08 ` Jan Kara
2018-06-20 22:55 ` John Hubbard
2018-06-21 16:30 ` Jan Kara
2018-06-25 15:21 ` Jan Kara
2018-06-25 19:03 ` John Hubbard
2018-06-26 7:52 ` Jan Kara
2018-06-26 6:31 ` John Hubbard
2018-06-26 11:48 ` Jan Kara
2018-06-26 13:47 ` Michal Hocko
2018-06-26 16:48 ` Jan Kara
2018-06-27 11:32 ` Michal Hocko
2018-06-27 11:53 ` Jan Kara
2018-06-27 11:59 ` Michal Hocko
2018-06-27 12:42 ` Jan Kara [this message]
2018-06-27 14:57 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2018-06-27 17:02 ` Jan Kara
2018-06-28 2:42 ` John Hubbard
2018-06-28 9:17 ` Jan Kara
2018-07-02 5:52 ` Leon Romanovsky
2018-07-02 6:10 ` John Hubbard
2018-07-02 6:34 ` Leon Romanovsky
2018-07-02 6:41 ` John Hubbard
2018-07-02 10:36 ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-02 7:02 ` Jan Kara
2018-07-02 14:48 ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-02 6:58 ` Jan Kara
2018-06-18 8:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-19 6:15 ` Leon Romanovsky
2018-06-17 22:19 ` John Hubbard
2018-06-17 22:19 ` John Hubbard
2018-06-18 7:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-06-18 17:44 ` John Hubbard
2018-06-18 17:44 ` John Hubbard
2018-06-17 21:54 ` [PATCH 0/2] mm: gup: don't unmap or drop filesystem buffers Christopher Lameter
2018-06-17 22:23 ` John Hubbard
2018-06-17 22:23 ` John Hubbard
2018-06-18 8:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
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