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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, cluster-devel@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: RFC: hold i_rwsem until aio completes
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 10:49:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200115144948.GB25201@ziepe.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200115143347.GL2827@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 03:33:47PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 09:24:28AM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> 
> > I was interested because you are talking about allowing the read/write side
> > of a rw sem to be held across a return to user space/etc, which is the
> > same basic problem.
> 
> No it is not; allowing the lock to be held across userspace doesn't
> change the owner. This is a crucial difference, PI depends on there
> being a distinct owner. That said, allowing the lock to be held across
> userspace still breaks PI in that it completely wrecks the ability to
> analyze the critical section.

I'm not sure what you are contrasting?

I was remarking that I see many places open code a rwsem using an
atomic and a completion specifically because they need to do the
things Christoph identified:

> (1) no unlocking by another process than the one that acquired it
> (2) no return to userspace with locks held

As an example flow: obtain the read side lock, schedual a work queue,
return to user space, and unlock the read side from the work queue.

If we can make some general primative that addresses this then maybe
those open coded places can convert as well?

Regards,
Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-15 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-14 16:12 RFC: hold i_rwsem until aio completes Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 01/12] mm: fix a comment in sys_swapon Christoph Hellwig
2020-02-10 23:29   ` Andrew Morton
2020-02-12  7:37     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 02/12] locking/rwsem: Exit early when held by an anonymous owner Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 18:17   ` Waiman Long
2020-01-14 18:25     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 18:33       ` Waiman Long
2020-01-14 18:55       ` Waiman Long
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 03/12] xfs: fix IOCB_NOWAIT handling in xfs_file_dio_aio_read Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 04/12] gfs2: move setting current->backing_dev_info Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 05/12] gfs2: fix O_SYNC write handling Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-27  9:03   ` [Cluster-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-28 16:57     ` Bob Peterson
2020-02-06 15:31   ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 06/12] iomap: pass a flags value to iomap_dio_rw Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 07/12] iomap: allow holding i_rwsem until aio completion Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 08/12] ext4: hold i_rwsem until AIO completes Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 21:50   ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-01-15  6:48     ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 09/12] gfs2: " Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 10/12] xfs: " Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 11/12] xfs: don't set IOMAP_DIO_SYNCHRONOUS for unaligned I/O Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 12/12] iomap: remove the inode_dio_begin/end calls Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 18:47 ` RFC: hold i_rwsem until aio completes Matthew Wilcox
2020-01-15  6:54   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 19:27 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-01-15  6:56   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-15 13:24     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-01-15 14:33       ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-15 14:49         ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2020-01-15 19:03           ` Waiman Long
2020-01-15 19:07             ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-18 22:40         ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-01-15 15:36       ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-15 16:26         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-01-16 14:00 ` Jan Kara
2020-02-03 17:44   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-18  9:28 ` Dave Chinner
2020-02-03 17:46   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-02-03 23:02     ` Dave Chinner

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