From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
To: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>,
Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5.5 10/10] mmap locking API: rename mmap_sem to mmap_lock
Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 00:32:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9c45327f-5542-c033-ec5e-201e9b0583aa@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANN689EubtJL2mbcz5Au05nW87gVuY-19r7nZd9x0y320PUb0g@mail.gmail.com>
On 2020-05-19 19:39, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
...
>> That gives you additional options inside internal_get_user_pages_fast(), such
>> as, approximately:
>>
>> if (!(gup_flags & FOLL_FAST_ONLY))
>> might_lock_read(¤t->mm->mmap_lock);
>>
>> ...not that that is necessarily a great idea, seeing as how it merely changes
>> "might lock" into "maybe might lock". :)
>
> I think that is completely fine, makes sure everyone not using
> FOLL_FAST_ONLY realizes that the call could block.
>
> Can I ask you to add that assertion in your patchset ? Based on
> Matthew's feedback, I would do it in my patchset, but it doesn't seem
> worth doing if we know this will conflict with your changes.
>
Sure, that's no problem. Although it looks like my changes may land
in mmotm first, and then your patchset, so maybe the right move is to
make this change *after* both of those things happen, yes?
thanks,
--
John Hubbard
NVIDIA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-20 7:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-22 0:14 [PATCH v5 00/10] Add a new mmap locking API wrapping mmap_sem calls Michel Lespinasse
2020-04-22 0:14 ` [PATCH v5 01/10] mmap locking API: initial implementation as rwsem wrappers Michel Lespinasse
2020-05-18 9:28 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-18 13:18 ` Laurent Dufour
2020-04-22 0:14 ` [PATCH v5 02/10] MMU notifier: use the new mmap locking API Michel Lespinasse
2020-05-18 9:28 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-18 13:19 ` Laurent Dufour
2020-04-22 0:14 ` [PATCH v5 03/10] DMA reservations: " Michel Lespinasse
2020-05-18 9:30 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-18 13:20 ` Laurent Dufour
2020-04-22 0:14 ` [PATCH v5 04/10] mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites Michel Lespinasse
2020-05-18 9:36 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-18 13:21 ` Laurent Dufour
2020-04-22 0:14 ` [PATCH v5 05/10] mmap locking API: convert mmap_sem call sites missed by coccinelle Michel Lespinasse
2020-05-18 9:44 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-18 13:23 ` Laurent Dufour
2020-04-22 0:14 ` [PATCH v5 06/10] mmap locking API: convert nested write lock sites Michel Lespinasse
2020-05-18 10:32 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-19 12:54 ` Michel Lespinasse
2020-05-18 13:24 ` Laurent Dufour
2020-04-22 0:14 ` [PATCH v5 07/10] mmap locking API: add mmap_read_trylock_non_owner() Michel Lespinasse
2020-05-18 10:42 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-04-22 0:14 ` [PATCH v5 08/10] mmap locking API: add MMAP_LOCK_INITIALIZER Michel Lespinasse
2020-05-18 10:45 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-19 12:56 ` Michel Lespinasse
2020-05-18 13:33 ` Laurent Dufour
2020-04-22 0:14 ` [PATCH v5 09/10] mmap locking API: add mmap_assert_locked Michel Lespinasse
2020-04-22 2:10 ` Michel Lespinasse
2020-04-22 2:18 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-04-24 1:44 ` Michel Lespinasse
2020-04-22 0:14 ` [PATCH v5 10/10] mmap locking API: rename mmap_sem to mmap_lock Michel Lespinasse
2020-04-22 1:58 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-04-22 22:54 ` Michel Lespinasse
2020-04-23 1:59 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-04-24 1:26 ` Michel Lespinasse
2020-04-24 1:38 ` [PATCH v5.5 09/10] mmap locking API: add mmap_assert_locked() and mmap_assert_write_locked() Michel Lespinasse
2020-05-18 11:01 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-19 13:06 ` Michel Lespinasse
2020-04-24 1:39 ` [PATCH v5.5 10/10] mmap locking API: rename mmap_sem to mmap_lock Michel Lespinasse
2020-05-18 11:07 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-05-19 13:12 ` Michel Lespinasse
2020-05-18 13:45 ` Laurent Dufour
2020-05-19 13:10 ` Michel Lespinasse
2020-05-19 13:20 ` Laurent Dufour
2020-05-19 15:32 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-05-19 18:14 ` John Hubbard
2020-05-20 2:39 ` Michel Lespinasse
2020-05-20 7:32 ` John Hubbard [this message]
2020-05-20 8:02 ` Michel Lespinasse
2020-05-20 12:48 ` Jason Gunthorpe
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