From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] btrfs: Avoid live-lock in search_ioctl() on hardware with sub-page faults
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 23:12:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YaVeafjbutiVXavv@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wjZ6zME2SzohM1P_-B0BNi2JJgvz22ypF-EuAQiVKipRg@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 01:53:01PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 12:56 PM Catalin Marinas
> <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:
> > I think that would be useful, though it doesn't solve the potential
> > livelock with sub-page faults.
>
> I was assuming we'd just do the sub-page faults.
>
> In fact, I was assuming we'd basically just replace all the PAGE_ALIGN
> and PAGE_SIZE with SUBPAGE_{ALIGN,SIZE}, together with something like
>
> if (size > PAGE_SIZE)
> size = PAGE_SIZE;
>
> to limit that size thing (or possibly make that "min size" be a
> parameter, so that people who have things like that "I need at least
> this initial structure to be copied" issue can document their minimum
> size needs).
Ah, so fault_in_writeable() would never fault in the whole range (if too
large). When copy_to_user() goes beyond the faulted in range, it may
fail and we go back to fault in a bit more of the range. A copy loop
would be equivalent to:
fault_addr = ubuf;
end = ubuf + size;
while (1) {
if (fault_in_writeable(fault_addr,
min(PAGE_SIZE, end - fault_addr)))
break;
left = copy_to_user(ubuf, kbuf, size);
if (!left)
break;
fault_addr = end - left;
}
That should work. I'll think about it tomorrow, getting late over here.
(I may still keep the sub-page probing in the arch code, see my earlier
exchanges with Andreas)
--
Catalin
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-29 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-24 19:20 [PATCH 0/3] Avoid live-lock in fault-in+uaccess loops with sub-page faults Catalin Marinas
2021-11-24 19:20 ` [PATCH 1/3] mm: Introduce fault_in_exact_writeable() to probe for " Catalin Marinas
2021-11-24 19:20 ` [PATCH 2/3] arm64: Add support for sub-page faults user probing Catalin Marinas
2021-11-24 19:20 ` [PATCH 3/3] btrfs: Avoid live-lock in search_ioctl() on hardware with sub-page faults Catalin Marinas
2021-11-24 20:03 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-11-24 20:37 ` Catalin Marinas
2021-11-25 22:25 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2021-11-25 22:42 ` Catalin Marinas
2021-11-26 22:29 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2021-11-26 22:57 ` Catalin Marinas
2021-11-27 3:52 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2021-11-27 14:33 ` Catalin Marinas
2021-11-27 12:39 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2021-11-27 15:21 ` Catalin Marinas
2021-11-27 18:05 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2021-11-29 12:16 ` Catalin Marinas
2021-11-29 13:33 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2021-11-29 15:36 ` Catalin Marinas
2021-11-29 18:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-11-29 19:31 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2021-11-29 20:56 ` Catalin Marinas
2021-11-29 21:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-11-29 23:12 ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2021-11-29 13:52 ` Catalin Marinas
2021-11-24 23:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-11-25 11:10 ` Catalin Marinas
2021-11-25 18:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-11-25 20:43 ` Catalin Marinas
2021-11-25 21:02 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-11-25 21:29 ` Catalin Marinas
2021-11-25 21:40 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2021-11-26 16:42 ` David Sterba
2021-11-24 21:36 ` [PATCH 0/3] Avoid live-lock in fault-in+uaccess loops " Andrew Morton
2021-11-24 22:31 ` Catalin Marinas
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