From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>,
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 10/15] block: add gup flag to bio_add_page()/bio_add_pc_page()/__bio_add_page()
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 18:52:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190416165206.GC17148@quack2.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190416002203.GA3158@redhat.com>
On Mon 15-04-19 20:22:04, Jerome Glisse wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 04:59:52PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> > Hi Jerome!
> >
> > On Thu 11-04-19 17:08:29, jglisse@redhat.com wrote:
> > > From: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
> > >
> > > We want to keep track of how we got a reference on page added to bio_vec
> > > ie wether the page was reference through GUP (get_user_page*) or not. So
> > > add a flag to bio_add_page()/bio_add_pc_page()/__bio_add_page() to that
> > > effect.
> >
> > Thanks for writing this patch set! Looking through patches like this one,
> > I'm a bit concerned. With so many bio_add_page() callers it's difficult to
> > get things right and not regress in the future. I'm wondering whether the
> > things won't be less error-prone if we required that all page reference
> > from bio are gup-like (not necessarily taken by GUP, if creator of the bio
> > gets to struct page he needs via some other means (e.g. page cache lookup),
> > he could just use get_gup_pin() helper we'd provide). After all, a page
> > reference in bio means that the page is pinned for the duration of IO and
> > can be DMAed to/from so it even makes some sense to track the reference
> > like that. Then bio_put() would just unconditionally do put_user_page() and
> > we won't have to propagate the information in the bio.
> >
> > Do you think this would be workable and easier?
>
> Thinking again on this, i can drop that patch and just add a new
> bio_add_page_from_gup() and then it would be much more obvious that
> only very few places need to use that new version and they are mostly
> obvious places. It is usualy GUP then right away add the pages to bio
> or bvec.
Yes, that's another option. Probably second preferred by me after my own
proposal ;)
> We can probably add documentation around GUP explaining that if you
> want to build a bio or bvec from GUP you must pay attention to which
> function you use.
Yes, although we both know how careful people are in reading
documentation...
> Also pages going in a bio are not necessarily written too, they can
> be use as source (writting to block) or as destination (reading from
> block). So having all of them with refcount bias as GUP would muddy
> the water somemore between pages we can no longer clean (ie GUPed)
> and those that are just being use in regular read or write operation.
Why would the difference matter here?
Honza
--
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-16 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-11 21:08 [PATCH v1 00/15] Keep track of GUPed pages in fs and block jglisse
2019-04-11 21:08 ` [PATCH v1 01/15] fs/direct-io: fix trailing whitespace issues jglisse
2019-04-11 21:08 ` [PATCH v1 02/15] iov_iter: add helper to test if an iter would use GUP jglisse
2019-04-11 21:08 ` [PATCH v1 03/15] block: introduce bvec_page()/bvec_set_page() to get/set bio_vec.bv_page jglisse
2019-04-11 21:08 ` [PATCH v1 04/15] block: introduce BIO_VEC_INIT() macro to initialize bio_vec structure jglisse
2019-04-11 21:08 ` [PATCH v1 05/15] block: replace all bio_vec->bv_page by bvec_page()/bvec_set_page() jglisse
2019-04-11 21:08 ` [PATCH v1 06/15] block: convert bio_vec.bv_page to bv_pfn to store pfn and not page jglisse
2019-04-11 21:08 ` [PATCH v1 07/15] block: add bvec_put_page_dirty*() to replace put_page(bvec_page()) jglisse
2019-04-11 21:08 ` [PATCH v1 08/15] block: use bvec_put_page() instead of put_page(bvec_page()) jglisse
2019-04-11 21:08 ` [PATCH v1 09/15] block: bvec_put_page_dirty* instead of set_page_dirty* and bvec_put_page jglisse
2019-04-11 21:08 ` [PATCH v1 10/15] block: add gup flag to bio_add_page()/bio_add_pc_page()/__bio_add_page() jglisse
2019-04-15 14:59 ` Jan Kara
2019-04-15 15:24 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-04-16 16:46 ` Jan Kara
2019-04-16 16:54 ` Dan Williams
2019-04-16 17:07 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-04-16 0:22 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-04-16 16:52 ` Jan Kara [this message]
2019-04-16 18:32 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-04-11 21:08 ` [PATCH v1 11/15] block: make sure bio_add_page*() knows page that are coming from GUP jglisse
2019-04-11 21:08 ` [PATCH v1 12/15] fs/direct-io: keep track of wether a page is coming from GUP or not jglisse
2019-04-11 23:14 ` Dave Chinner
2019-04-12 0:08 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-04-11 21:08 ` [PATCH v1 13/15] fs/splice: use put_user_page() when appropriate jglisse
2019-04-11 21:08 ` [PATCH v1 14/15] fs: use bvec_set_gup_page() where appropriate jglisse
2019-04-11 21:08 ` [PATCH v1 15/15] ceph: use put_user_pages() instead of ceph_put_page_vector() jglisse
2019-04-15 7:46 ` Yan, Zheng
2019-04-15 15:11 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-04-16 0:00 ` [PATCH v1 00/15] Keep track of GUPed pages in fs and block Dave Chinner
[not found] ` <2c124cc4-b97e-ee28-2926-305bc6bc74bd@plexistor.com>
2019-04-16 18:47 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-04-16 18:59 ` Kent Overstreet
2019-04-16 19:12 ` Dan Williams
2019-04-16 19:49 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-04-17 21:53 ` Dan Williams
2019-04-17 22:28 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-04-17 23:32 ` Dan Williams
2019-04-18 10:42 ` Jan Kara
2019-04-18 14:27 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-04-18 15:30 ` Jan Kara
2019-04-18 15:36 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-04-18 18:03 ` Dan Williams
[not found] ` <ccac6c5a-7120-0455-88de-ca321b01e825@plexistor.com>
2019-04-16 19:57 ` Jerome Glisse
[not found] ` <41e2d7e1-104b-a006-2824-015ca8c76cc8@gmail.com>
2019-04-16 23:16 ` Jerome Glisse
[not found] ` <fa00a2ff-3664-3165-7af8-9d9c53238245@plexistor.com>
2019-04-17 2:03 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-04-17 21:19 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-04-16 23:34 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-04-17 21:54 ` Dan Williams
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