From: Zhou Wang <wangzhou1@hisilicon.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: jean-philippe@linaro.org, kevin.tian@intel.com,
Sihang Chen <chensihang1@hisilicon.com>,
jgg@ziepe.ca, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
zhangfei.gao@linaro.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
liguozhu@hisilicon.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/2] mempinfd: Add new syscall to provide memory pin
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2021 19:58:15 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f73951ba-84be-b7f8-8c79-db84bc9081f3@hisilicon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YCJX6QFQ4hsNRrFj@kroah.com>
On 2021/2/9 17:37, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 05:17:46PM +0800, Zhou Wang wrote:
>> On 2021/2/8 6:02, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Feb 7, 2021, at 12:31 AM, Zhou Wang <wangzhou1@hisilicon.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> SVA(share virtual address) offers a way for device to share process virtual
>>>> address space safely, which makes more convenient for user space device
>>>> driver coding. However, IO page faults may happen when doing DMA
>>>> operations. As the latency of IO page fault is relatively big, DMA
>>>> performance will be affected severely when there are IO page faults.
>>>> From a long term view, DMA performance will be not stable.
>>>>
>>>> In high-performance I/O cases, accelerators might want to perform
>>>> I/O on a memory without IO page faults which can result in dramatically
>>>> increased latency. Current memory related APIs could not achieve this
>>>> requirement, e.g. mlock can only avoid memory to swap to backup device,
>>>> page migration can still trigger IO page fault.
>>>>
>>>> Various drivers working under traditional non-SVA mode are using
>>>> their own specific ioctl to do pin. Such ioctl can be seen in v4l2,
>>>> gpu, infiniband, media, vfio, etc. Drivers are usually doing dma
>>>> mapping while doing pin.
>>>>
>>>> But, in SVA mode, pin could be a common need which isn't necessarily
>>>> bound with any drivers, and neither is dma mapping needed by drivers
>>>> since devices are using the virtual address of CPU. Thus, It is better
>>>> to introduce a new common syscall for it.
>>>>
>>>> This patch leverages the design of userfaultfd and adds mempinfd for pin
>>>> to avoid messing up mm_struct. A fd will be got by mempinfd, then user
>>>> space can do pin/unpin pages by ioctls of this fd, all pinned pages under
>>>> one file will be unpinned in file release process. Like pin page cases in
>>>> other places, can_do_mlock is used to check permission and input
>>>> parameters.
>>>
>>>
>>> Can you document what the syscall does?
>>
>> Will add related document in Documentation/vm.
>
> A manpage is always good, and will be required eventually :)
manpage is maintained in another repo. Do you mean add a manpage
patch in this series?
Best,
Zhou
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
> .
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-09 11:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-07 8:18 [RFC PATCH v3 0/2] mempinfd: Add new syscall to provide memory pin Zhou Wang
2021-02-07 8:18 ` [RFC PATCH v3 1/2] " Zhou Wang
2021-02-07 21:34 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-02-07 22:24 ` Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)
2021-02-08 1:30 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-02-08 2:27 ` Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)
2021-02-08 8:21 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-02-08 10:13 ` Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)
2021-02-08 10:37 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-02-08 20:52 ` Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)
2021-02-08 2:18 ` David Rientjes via iommu
2021-02-08 5:34 ` Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)
2021-02-07 21:51 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-02-09 9:27 ` Zhou Wang
2021-02-07 22:02 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-02-09 9:17 ` Zhou Wang
2021-02-09 9:37 ` Greg KH
2021-02-09 11:58 ` Zhou Wang [this message]
2021-02-09 12:01 ` Greg KH
2021-02-09 12:20 ` Zhou Wang
2021-02-10 18:50 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-02-08 8:14 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-02-08 18:33 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-02-08 20:35 ` Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)
2021-02-08 21:30 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-02-09 3:01 ` Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)
2021-02-09 13:53 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-02-09 22:22 ` Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)
2021-02-10 18:04 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-02-10 21:39 ` Song Bao Hua (Barry Song)
2021-02-11 10:28 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-02-07 8:18 ` [RFC PATCH v3 2/2] selftests/vm: add mempinfd test Zhou Wang
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