From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> To: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: "John Hubbard" <john.hubbard@gmail.com>, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, "Linux MM" <linux-mm@kvack.org>, "Jan Kara" <jack@suse.cz>, tom@talpey.com, "Al Viro" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, benve@cisco.com, "Christoph Hellwig" <hch@infradead.org>, "Christopher Lameter" <cl@linux.com>, "Dalessandro, Dennis" <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com>, "Doug Ledford" <dledford@redhat.com>, "Jason Gunthorpe" <jgg@ziepe.ca>, "Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com>, "Matthew Wilcox" <willy@infradead.org>, "Michal Hocko" <mhocko@kernel.org>, mike.marciniszyn@intel.com, rcampbell@nvidia.com, "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: introduce put_user_page*(), placeholder versions Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 15:03:02 -0800 Message-ID: <CAPcyv4iNtamDAY9raab=iXhSZByecedBpnGybjLM+PuDMwq7SQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <a0adcf7c-5592-f003-abc5-a2645eb1d5df@nvidia.com> On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 1:56 PM John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> wrote: > > On 12/4/18 12:28 PM, Dan Williams wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 4:17 PM <john.hubbard@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> > >> > >> Introduces put_user_page(), which simply calls put_page(). > >> This provides a way to update all get_user_pages*() callers, > >> so that they call put_user_page(), instead of put_page(). > >> > >> Also introduces put_user_pages(), and a few dirty/locked variations, > >> as a replacement for release_pages(), and also as a replacement > >> for open-coded loops that release multiple pages. > >> These may be used for subsequent performance improvements, > >> via batching of pages to be released. > >> > >> This is the first step of fixing the problem described in [1]. The steps > >> are: > >> > >> 1) (This patch): provide put_user_page*() routines, intended to be used > >> for releasing pages that were pinned via get_user_pages*(). > >> > >> 2) Convert all of the call sites for get_user_pages*(), to > >> invoke put_user_page*(), instead of put_page(). This involves dozens of > >> call sites, and will take some time. > >> > >> 3) After (2) is complete, use get_user_pages*() and put_user_page*() to > >> implement tracking of these pages. This tracking will be separate from > >> the existing struct page refcounting. > >> > >> 4) Use the tracking and identification of these pages, to implement > >> special handling (especially in writeback paths) when the pages are > >> backed by a filesystem. Again, [1] provides details as to why that is > >> desirable. > > > > I thought at Plumbers we talked about using a page bit to tag pages > > that have had their reference count elevated by get_user_pages()? That > > way there is no need to distinguish put_page() from put_user_page() it > > just happens internally to put_page(). At the conference Matthew was > > offering to free up a page bit for this purpose. > > > > ...but then, upon further discussion in that same session, we realized that > that doesn't help. You need a reference count. Otherwise a random put_page > could affect your dma-pinned pages, etc, etc. Ok, sorry, I mis-remembered. So, you're effectively trying to capture the end of the page pin event separate from the final 'put' of the page? Makes sense. > I was not able to actually find any place where a single additional page > bit would help our situation, which is why this still uses LRU fields for > both the two bits required (the RFC [1] still applies), and the dma_pinned_count. Except the LRU fields are already in use for ZONE_DEVICE pages... how does this proposal interact with those? > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20181110085041.10071-7-jhubbard@nvidia.com > > >> [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/753027/ : "The Trouble with get_user_pages()" > >> > >> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> > > > > Wish, you could have been there Jan. I'm missing why it's safe to > > assume that a single put_user_page() is paired with a get_user_page()? > > > > A put_user_page() per page, or a put_user_pages() for an array of pages. See > patch 0002 for several examples. Yes, however I was more concerned about validation and trying to locate missed places where put_page() is used instead of put_user_page(). It would be interesting to see if we could have a debug mode where get_user_pages() returned dynamically allocated pages from a known address range and catch drivers that operate on a user-pinned page without using the proper helper to 'put' it. I think we might also need a ref_user_page() for drivers that may do their own get_page() and expect the dma_pinned_count to also increase.
next prev parent reply index Thread overview: 213+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2018-12-04 0:17 [PATCH 0/2] put_user_page*(): start converting the call sites john.hubbard 2018-12-04 0:17 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: introduce put_user_page*(), placeholder versions john.hubbard 2018-12-04 7:53 ` Mike Rapoport 2018-12-05 1:40 ` John Hubbard 2018-12-04 20:28 ` Dan Williams 2018-12-04 21:56 ` John Hubbard 2018-12-04 23:03 ` Dan Williams [this message] 2018-12-05 0:36 ` Jerome Glisse 2018-12-05 0:40 ` Dan Williams 2018-12-05 0:59 ` John Hubbard 2018-12-05 0:58 ` John Hubbard 2018-12-05 1:00 ` Dan Williams 2018-12-05 1:15 ` Matthew Wilcox 2018-12-05 1:44 ` Jerome Glisse 2018-12-05 1:57 ` John Hubbard 2018-12-07 2:45 ` John Hubbard 2018-12-07 19:16 ` Jerome Glisse 2018-12-07 19:26 ` Dan Williams 2018-12-07 19:40 ` Jerome Glisse 2018-12-08 0:52 ` John Hubbard 2018-12-08 2:24 ` Jerome Glisse 2018-12-10 10:28 ` Jan Kara 2018-12-12 15:03 ` Jerome Glisse 2018-12-12 16:27 ` Dan Williams 2018-12-12 17:02 ` Jerome Glisse 2018-12-12 17:49 ` Dan Williams 2018-12-12 19:07 ` John Hubbard 2018-12-12 21:30 ` Jerome Glisse 2018-12-12 21:40 ` Dan Williams 2018-12-12 21:53 ` Jerome Glisse 2018-12-12 22:11 ` Matthew Wilcox 2018-12-12 22:16 ` Jerome Glisse 2018-12-12 23:37 ` Jason Gunthorpe 2018-12-12 23:46 ` John Hubbard 2018-12-12 23:54 ` Dan Williams 2018-12-13 0:01 ` Jerome Glisse 2018-12-13 0:18 ` Dan Williams 2018-12-13 0:44 ` Jerome Glisse 2018-12-13 3:26 ` Jason Gunthorpe 2018-12-13 3:20 ` Jason Gunthorpe 2018-12-13 12:43 ` Jerome Glisse 2018-12-13 13:40 ` Tom Talpey 2018-12-13 14:18 ` Jerome Glisse 2018-12-13 14:51 ` Tom Talpey 2018-12-13 15:18 ` Jerome Glisse 2018-12-13 18:12 ` Tom Talpey 2018-12-13 19:18 ` Jerome Glisse 2018-12-14 10:41 ` Jan Kara 2018-12-14 15:25 ` Jerome Glisse 2018-12-12 21:56 ` John Hubbard 2018-12-12 22:04 ` Jerome Glisse 2018-12-12 22:11 ` John Hubbard 2018-12-12 22:14 ` Jerome Glisse 2018-12-12 22:17 ` John Hubbard 2018-12-12 21:46 ` Dave Chinner 2018-12-12 21:59 ` Jerome Glisse 2018-12-13 0:51 ` Dave Chinner 2018-12-13 2:02 ` Jerome Glisse 2018-12-13 15:56 ` Christopher Lameter 2018-12-13 16:02 ` Jerome Glisse 2018-12-14 6:00 ` Dave Chinner 2018-12-14 15:13 ` Jerome Glisse 2018-12-14 3:52 ` John Hubbard 2018-12-14 5:21 ` Dan Williams 2018-12-14 6:11 ` John Hubbard 2018-12-14 15:20 ` Jerome Glisse 2018-12-14 19:38 ` Dan Williams 2018-12-14 19:48 ` Matthew Wilcox 2018-12-14 19:53 ` Dave Hansen 2018-12-14 20:03 ` Matthew Wilcox 2018-12-14 20:17 ` Dan Williams 2018-12-14 20:29 ` Matthew Wilcox 2018-12-15 0:41 ` John Hubbard 2018-12-17 8:56 ` Jan Kara 2018-12-17 18:28 ` Dan Williams 2018-12-14 15:43 ` Jan Kara 2018-12-16 21:58 ` Dave Chinner 2018-12-17 18:11 ` Jerome Glisse 2018-12-17 18:34 ` Matthew Wilcox 2018-12-17 19:48 ` Jerome Glisse 2018-12-17 19:51 ` Matthew Wilcox 2018-12-17 19:54 ` Jerome Glisse 2018-12-17 19:59 ` Matthew Wilcox 2018-12-17 20:55 ` Jerome Glisse 2018-12-17 21:03 ` Matthew Wilcox 2018-12-17 21:15 ` Jerome Glisse 2018-12-18 1:09 ` Dave Chinner 2018-12-18 6:12 ` Darrick J. 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