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From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	Kirill Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>,
	Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>, Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] mm: Do early cow for pinned pages during fork() for ptes
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 21:03:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200923010332.GP19098@xz-x1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200922184359.GI11679@redhat.com>

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 08:44:00PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 09/22, Peter Xu wrote:
> >
> > Or I can also do it in inverted order if you think better:
> >
> >         if (unlikely(copy_ret == COPY_MM_BREAK_COW)) {
> >                 WARN_ON_ONCE(!data.cow_new_page);
> >                 ...
> >         }
> 
> Peter, let me say this again. I don't understand this code enough, you
> can safely ignore me ;)

Why? I appreciate every single comment from you! :)

> 
> However. Personally I strongly prefer the above. Personally I really
> dislike this part of 4/5:
> 
> 	 again:
> 	+	/* We don't reset this for COPY_MM_BREAK_COW */
> 	+	memset(&data, 0, sizeof(data));
> 	+
> 	+again_break_cow:
> 
> If we rely on "copy_ret == COPY_MM_BREAK_COW" we can unify "again" and
> "again_break_cow", we don't need to clear ->cow_new_page, this makes the
> logic more understandable. To me at least ;)

I see your point.  I'll definitely try it out.  I think I'll at least use what
you preferred above since it's actually the same as before, logically.  Then
I'll consider drop the again_break_cow, as long as I'm still as confident after
I do the change on not leaking anything :).

Thanks,

-- 
Peter Xu


  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-23  1:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 133+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-21 21:17 [PATCH 0/5] mm: Break COW for pinned pages during fork() Peter Xu
2020-09-21 21:17 ` [PATCH 1/5] mm: Introduce mm_struct.has_pinned Peter Xu
2020-09-21 21:43   ` Jann Horn
2020-09-21 21:43     ` Jann Horn
2020-09-21 22:30     ` Peter Xu
2020-09-21 22:47       ` Jann Horn
2020-09-21 22:47         ` Jann Horn
2020-09-22 11:54         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-22 14:28           ` Peter Xu
2020-09-22 15:56             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-22 16:25               ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-22 16:25                 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-21 23:53   ` John Hubbard
2020-09-22  0:01     ` John Hubbard
2020-09-22 15:17     ` Peter Xu
2020-09-22 16:10       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-22 17:54         ` Peter Xu
2020-09-22 19:11           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-23  0:27             ` Peter Xu
2020-09-23 13:10               ` Peter Xu
2020-09-23 14:20                 ` Jan Kara
2020-09-23 17:12                   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-24  7:44                     ` Jan Kara
2020-09-24 14:02                       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-24 14:45                         ` Jan Kara
2020-09-23 17:07               ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-24 14:35                 ` Peter Xu
2020-09-24 16:51                   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-24 17:55                     ` Peter Xu
2020-09-24 18:15                       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-24 18:34                         ` Peter Xu
2020-09-24 18:39                           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-24 21:30                             ` Peter Xu
2020-09-25 19:56                               ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-25 19:56                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-25 21:06                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-25 21:06                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-26  0:41                                   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-26  1:15                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-26  1:15                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-26 22:28                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-26 22:28                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-27  6:23                                         ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-09-27 18:16                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-27 18:16                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-27 18:45                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-27 18:45                                               ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-28 12:49                                               ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-28 16:17                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-28 16:17                                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-28 17:22                                                   ` Peter Xu
2020-09-28 17:54                                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-28 17:54                                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-28 18:39                                                       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-28 19:29                                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-28 19:29                                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-28 23:57                                                           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-29  0:18                                                             ` John Hubbard
2020-09-28 19:36                                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-28 19:36                                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-28 19:50                                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-28 19:50                                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-28 22:51                                                             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-29  0:30                                                               ` Peter Xu
2020-10-08  5:49                                                             ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-09-28 17:13                                             ` Peter Xu
2020-09-25 21:13                                 ` Peter Xu
2020-09-25 22:08                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-25 22:08                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-22 18:02       ` John Hubbard
2020-09-22 18:15         ` Peter Xu
2020-09-22 19:11       ` John Hubbard
2020-09-27  0:41   ` [mm] 698ac7610f: will-it-scale.per_thread_ops 8.2% improvement kernel test robot
2020-09-27  0:41     ` kernel test robot
2020-09-21 21:17 ` [PATCH 2/5] mm/fork: Pass new vma pointer into copy_page_range() Peter Xu
2020-09-21 21:17 ` [PATCH 3/5] mm: Rework return value for copy_one_pte() Peter Xu
2020-09-22  7:11   ` John Hubbard
2020-09-22 15:29     ` Peter Xu
2020-09-22 10:08   ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-09-22 10:18     ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-09-22 15:36       ` Peter Xu
2020-09-22 15:48         ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-09-22 16:03           ` Peter Xu
2020-09-22 16:53             ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-09-22 18:13               ` Peter Xu
2020-09-22 18:23                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-09-22 18:49                   ` Peter Xu
2020-09-23  6:52                     ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-09-23 17:16   ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-23 17:16     ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-23 21:24     ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-23 21:24       ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-21 21:20 ` [PATCH 4/5] mm: Do early cow for pinned pages during fork() for ptes Peter Xu
2020-09-21 21:55   ` Jann Horn
2020-09-21 21:55     ` Jann Horn
2020-09-21 22:18     ` John Hubbard
2020-09-21 22:27       ` Jann Horn
2020-09-21 22:27         ` Jann Horn
2020-09-22  0:08         ` John Hubbard
2020-09-21 22:27     ` Peter Xu
2020-09-22 11:48   ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-09-22 12:40     ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-09-22 15:58       ` Peter Xu
2020-09-22 16:52         ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-09-22 18:34           ` Peter Xu
2020-09-22 18:44             ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-09-23  1:03               ` Peter Xu [this message]
2020-09-23 20:25                 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-23 20:25                   ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-24 15:08                   ` Peter Xu
2020-09-24 11:48   ` Kirill Tkhai
2020-09-24 15:16     ` Peter Xu
2020-09-21 21:20 ` [PATCH 5/5] mm/thp: Split huge pmds/puds if they're pinned when fork() Peter Xu
2020-09-22  6:41   ` John Hubbard
2020-09-22 10:33     ` Jan Kara
2020-09-22 20:01       ` John Hubbard
2020-09-23  9:22         ` Jan Kara
2020-09-23 13:50           ` Peter Xu
2020-09-23 14:01             ` Jan Kara
2020-09-23 15:44               ` Peter Xu
2020-09-23 20:19                 ` John Hubbard
2020-09-24 18:49                   ` Peter Xu
2020-09-23 16:06     ` Peter Xu
2020-09-22 12:05   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-23 15:24     ` Peter Xu
2020-09-23 16:07       ` Yang Shi
2020-09-23 16:07         ` Yang Shi
2020-09-24 15:47         ` Peter Xu
2020-09-24 17:29           ` Yang Shi
2020-09-24 17:29             ` Yang Shi
2020-09-23 17:17       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-23 10:21 ` [PATCH 0/5] mm: Break COW for pinned pages during fork() Leon Romanovsky
2020-09-23 15:37   ` Peter Xu

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