From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
To: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/3] mm/gup: fix gup_fast with dynamic page table folding
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2020 06:42:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9f9acde7-c400-53b0-38ec-ad3e48de5371@csgroup.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200907180058.64880-1-gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Le 07/09/2020 à 20:00, Gerald Schaefer a écrit :
> This is v2 of an RFC previously discussed here:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200828140314.8556-1-gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com/
>
> Patch 1 is a fix for a regression in gup_fast on s390, after our conversion
> to common gup_fast code. It will introduce special helper functions
> pXd_addr_end_folded(), which have to be used in places where pagetable walk
> is done w/o lock and with READ_ONCE, so currently only in gup_fast.
>
> Patch 2 is an attempt to make that more generic, i.e. change pXd_addr_end()
> themselves by adding an extra pXd value parameter. That was suggested by
> Jason during v1 discussion, because he is already thinking of some other
> places where he might want to switch to the READ_ONCE logic for pagetable
> walks. In general, that would be the cleanest / safest solution, but there
> is some impact on other architectures and common code, hence the new and
> greatly enlarged recipient list.
>
> Patch 3 is a "nice to have" add-on, which makes pXd_addr_end() inline
> functions instead of #defines, so that we get some type checking for the
> new pXd value parameter.
>
> Not sure about Fixes/stable tags for the generic solution. Only patch 1
> fixes a real bug on s390, and has Fixes/stable tags. Patches 2 + 3 might
> still be nice to have in stable, to ease future backports, but I guess
> "nice to have" does not really qualify for stable backports.
If one day you have to backport a fix that requires patch 2 and/or 3,
just mark it "depends-on:" and the patches will go in stable at the
relevant time.
Christophe
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-08 4:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-07 18:00 [RFC PATCH v2 0/3] mm/gup: fix gup_fast with dynamic page table folding Gerald Schaefer
2020-09-07 18:00 ` [RFC PATCH v2 1/3] " Gerald Schaefer
2020-09-08 5:06 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-08 12:09 ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-09-08 12:40 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-08 13:38 ` Gerald Schaefer
2020-09-08 14:30 ` Dave Hansen
2020-09-08 17:59 ` Gerald Schaefer
2020-09-09 12:29 ` Gerald Schaefer
2020-09-09 16:18 ` Dave Hansen
2020-09-09 17:25 ` Gerald Schaefer
2020-09-09 18:03 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-10 9:39 ` Alexander Gordeev
2020-09-10 13:02 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-10 13:28 ` Gerald Schaefer
2020-09-10 15:10 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-10 17:07 ` Gerald Schaefer
2020-09-10 17:19 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-10 17:57 ` Gerald Schaefer
2020-09-10 23:21 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-10 17:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-10 18:13 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-10 18:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-10 19:10 ` Gerald Schaefer
2020-09-10 19:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-10 21:59 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-11 7:09 ` peterz
2020-09-11 11:19 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-11 19:03 ` [PATCH] " Vasily Gorbik
2020-09-11 19:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-11 19:40 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-11 20:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-11 20:36 ` [PATCH v2] " Vasily Gorbik
2020-09-15 17:09 ` Vasily Gorbik
2020-09-15 17:14 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-15 17:18 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-09-15 17:31 ` John Hubbard
2020-09-10 21:22 ` [RFC PATCH v2 1/3] " John Hubbard
2020-09-10 22:11 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-10 22:17 ` John Hubbard
2020-09-11 12:19 ` Alexander Gordeev
2020-09-11 16:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-10 13:11 ` Gerald Schaefer
2020-09-07 18:00 ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/3] mm: make pXd_addr_end() functions page-table entry aware Gerald Schaefer
2020-09-08 5:14 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-08 7:46 ` Alexander Gordeev
2020-09-08 8:16 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-08 14:15 ` Alexander Gordeev
2020-09-09 8:38 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-08 14:25 ` Alexander Gordeev
2020-09-08 13:26 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-08 14:33 ` Dave Hansen
2020-09-07 18:00 ` [RFC PATCH v2 3/3] mm: make generic pXd_addr_end() macros inline functions Gerald Schaefer
2020-09-07 20:15 ` Mike Rapoport
2020-09-08 5:19 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-08 15:48 ` Alexander Gordeev
2020-09-08 17:20 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-07 20:12 ` [RFC PATCH v2 0/3] mm/gup: fix gup_fast with dynamic page table folding Mike Rapoport
2020-09-08 5:22 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-08 17:36 ` Gerald Schaefer
2020-09-09 16:12 ` Gerald Schaefer
2020-09-08 4:42 ` Christophe Leroy [this message]
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