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From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
To: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>, Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-rdma <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Discuss least bad options for resolving longterm-GUP usage by RDMA
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 18:58:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b8794103-5ae1-ff8d-22be-d585d36e6310@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01000168e29418ba-81301f56-9370-4555-b70c-3ad51be84543-000000@email.amazonses.com>

On 2/12/19 8:39 AM, Christopher Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2019, John Hubbard wrote:
> 
>> But anyway, Jan's proposal a bit earlier today [1] is finally sinking into
>> my head--if we actually go that way, and prevent the caller from setting up
>> a problematic gup pin in the first place, then that may make this point sort
>> of moot.
> 
> Ok well can be document how we think it would work somewhere? Long term
> mapping a page cache page could a problem and we need to explain that
> somewhere.
> 

Yes, once the dust settles, I think Documentation/vm/get_user_pages.rst is the
right place. I started to create that file, but someone observed that my initial
content was entirely backward-looking (described the original problem, instead 
of describing how the new system would work). So I'll use this opportunity for 
a do-over. :)

thanks,
-- 
John Hubbard
NVIDIA

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
To: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>, Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	<lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-rdma <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Discuss least bad options for resolving longterm-GUP usage by RDMA
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 18:58:10 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b8794103-5ae1-ff8d-22be-d585d36e6310@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01000168e29418ba-81301f56-9370-4555-b70c-3ad51be84543-000000@email.amazonses.com>

On 2/12/19 8:39 AM, Christopher Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2019, John Hubbard wrote:
> 
>> But anyway, Jan's proposal a bit earlier today [1] is finally sinking into
>> my head--if we actually go that way, and prevent the caller from setting up
>> a problematic gup pin in the first place, then that may make this point sort
>> of moot.
> 
> Ok well can be document how we think it would work somewhere? Long term
> mapping a page cache page could a problem and we need to explain that
> somewhere.
> 

Yes, once the dust settles, I think Documentation/vm/get_user_pages.rst is the
right place. I started to create that file, but someone observed that my initial
content was entirely backward-looking (described the original problem, instead 
of describing how the new system would work). So I'll use this opportunity for 
a do-over. :)

thanks,
-- 
John Hubbard
NVIDIA

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-13  2:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 155+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-05 17:50 [LSF/MM TOPIC] Discuss least bad options for resolving longterm-GUP usage by RDMA Ira Weiny
2019-02-05 18:01 ` Ira Weiny
2019-02-06 21:31   ` Dave Chinner
2019-02-06  9:50 ` Jan Kara
2019-02-06 17:31   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-06 17:52     ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-02-06 18:32       ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-06 18:32         ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-06 18:35         ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-02-06 18:44           ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-06 18:44             ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-06 18:52           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-06 19:45             ` Dan Williams
2019-02-06 19:45               ` Dan Williams
2019-02-06 20:14               ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-06 21:04                 ` Dan Williams
2019-02-06 21:04                   ` Dan Williams
2019-02-06 21:12                   ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-06 21:12                     ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-06 19:16         ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-06 19:16           ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-06 19:40           ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-02-06 20:16             ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-06 20:16               ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-06 20:20               ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-02-06 20:28                 ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-06 20:28                   ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-06 20:41                   ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-02-06 20:47                     ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-06 20:47                       ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-06 20:49                       ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-02-06 20:50                         ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-06 20:50                           ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-06 20:31                 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-06 20:39                 ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-06 20:39                   ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-06 20:54                 ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-06 20:54                   ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-07 16:48                   ` Jan Kara
2019-02-06 20:24             ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-06 20:24               ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-06 21:03           ` Dave Chinner
2019-02-06 22:08             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-06 22:24               ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-06 22:24                 ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-06 22:44                 ` Dan Williams
2019-02-06 22:44                   ` Dan Williams
2019-02-06 23:21                   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-06 23:30                     ` Dan Williams
2019-02-06 23:30                       ` Dan Williams
2019-02-06 23:41                       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-07  0:22                         ` Dan Williams
2019-02-07  0:22                           ` Dan Williams
2019-02-07  0:22                           ` Dan Williams
2019-02-07  0:22                           ` Dan Williams
2019-02-07  5:33                           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-07  1:57                   ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-07  1:57                     ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-07  2:48                     ` Dan Williams
2019-02-07  2:48                       ` Dan Williams
2019-02-07  2:48                       ` Dan Williams
2019-02-07  2:48                       ` Dan Williams
2019-02-07  2:42                   ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-07  2:42                     ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-07  3:13                     ` Dan Williams
2019-02-07  3:13                       ` Dan Williams
2019-02-07 17:23                       ` Ira Weiny
2019-02-07 16:25                   ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-07 16:25                     ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-07 16:55                     ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-07 16:55                       ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-07 17:35                       ` Ira Weiny
2019-02-07 18:17                         ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-07 18:17                           ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-08  4:43                       ` Dave Chinner
2019-02-08 11:10                         ` Jan Kara
2019-02-08 20:50                           ` Dan Williams
2019-02-08 20:50                             ` Dan Williams
2019-02-11 10:24                             ` Jan Kara
2019-02-11 17:22                               ` Dan Williams
2019-02-11 17:22                                 ` Dan Williams
2019-02-11 18:06                                 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-11 18:15                                   ` Dan Williams
2019-02-11 18:15                                     ` Dan Williams
2019-02-11 18:19                                   ` Ira Weiny
2019-02-11 18:26                                     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-11 18:40                                       ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-02-11 19:58                                         ` Dan Williams
2019-02-11 19:58                                           ` Dan Williams
2019-02-11 20:49                                           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-11 21:02                                             ` Dan Williams
2019-02-11 21:02                                               ` Dan Williams
2019-02-11 21:09                                               ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-12 16:34                                                 ` Jan Kara
2019-02-12 16:55                                                   ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-12 16:55                                                     ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-13 15:06                                                     ` Jan Kara
2019-02-12 16:36                                               ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-12 16:36                                                 ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-12 16:44                                                 ` Jan Kara
2019-02-11 21:08                                     ` Jerome Glisse
2019-02-11 21:22                                     ` John Hubbard
2019-02-11 21:22                                       ` John Hubbard
2019-02-11 22:12                                       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-11 22:33                                         ` John Hubbard
2019-02-11 22:33                                           ` John Hubbard
2019-02-12 16:39                                           ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-12 16:39                                             ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-13  2:58                                             ` John Hubbard [this message]
2019-02-13  2:58                                               ` John Hubbard
2019-02-12 16:28                                   ` Jan Kara
2019-02-14 20:26                                   ` Jerome Glisse
2019-02-14 20:50                                     ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-02-14 21:39                                       ` Jerome Glisse
2019-02-15  1:19                                         ` Dave Chinner
2019-02-15 15:42                                           ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-15 15:42                                             ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-15 18:08                                             ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-02-15 18:31                                               ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-15 18:31                                                 ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-15 22:00                                                 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-15 23:38                                                   ` Ira Weiny
2019-02-16 22:42                                                     ` Dave Chinner
2019-02-17  2:54                                                     ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-17  2:54                                                       ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-12 16:07                                 ` Jan Kara
2019-02-12 21:53                                   ` Dan Williams
2019-02-12 21:53                                     ` Dan Williams
2019-02-08 21:20                           ` Dave Chinner
2019-02-08 15:33                         ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-08 15:33                           ` Christopher Lameter
2019-02-07 17:24                     ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-02-07 17:26                       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-07  3:52                 ` Dave Chinner
2019-02-07  5:23                   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-07  6:00                     ` Dan Williams
2019-02-07  6:00                       ` Dan Williams
2019-02-07 17:17                       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-07 23:54                         ` Dan Williams
2019-02-07 23:54                           ` Dan Williams
2019-02-08  1:44                           ` Ira Weiny
2019-02-08  5:19                           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-08  7:20                             ` Dan Williams
2019-02-08  7:20                               ` Dan Williams
2019-02-08 15:42                               ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-02-07 15:04                     ` Chuck Lever
2019-02-07 15:28                       ` Tom Talpey
2019-02-07 15:37                         ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-07 15:37                           ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-07 15:41                           ` Tom Talpey
2019-02-07 15:56                             ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-07 15:56                               ` Doug Ledford
2019-02-07 16:57                         ` Ira Weiny
2019-02-07 21:31                           ` Tom Talpey
2019-02-07 16:54                     ` Ira Weiny

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