From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
To: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Cc: "akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alan Tull <atull@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: add account_locked_vm utility function
Date: Fri, 3 May 2019 23:28:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190503232818.GA5182@mellanox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190503201629.20512-1-daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 01:16:30PM -0700, Daniel Jordan wrote:
> locked_vm accounting is done roughly the same way in five places, so
> unify them in a helper. Standardize the debug prints, which vary
> slightly. Error codes stay the same, so user-visible behavior does too.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
> Cc: Alan Tull <atull@kernel.org>
> Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
> Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
> Cc: Moritz Fischer <mdf@kernel.org>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
> Cc: Steve Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com>
> Cc: Wu Hao <hao.wu@intel.com>
> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
> Cc: linux-fpga@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>
> Based on v5.1-rc7. Tested with the vfio type1 driver. Any feedback
> welcome.
>
> Andrew, this one patch replaces these six from [1]:
>
> mm-change-locked_vms-type-from-unsigned-long-to-atomic64_t.patch
> vfio-type1-drop-mmap_sem-now-that-locked_vm-is-atomic.patch
> vfio-spapr_tce-drop-mmap_sem-now-that-locked_vm-is-atomic.patch
> fpga-dlf-afu-drop-mmap_sem-now-that-locked_vm-is-atomic.patch
> kvm-book3s-drop-mmap_sem-now-that-locked_vm-is-atomic.patch
> powerpc-mmu-drop-mmap_sem-now-that-locked_vm-is-atomic.patch
>
> That series converts locked_vm to an atomic, but on closer inspection causes at
> least one accounting race in mremap, and fixing it just for this type
> conversion came with too much ugly in the core mm to justify, especially when
> the right long-term fix is making these drivers use pinned_vm instead.
Did we ever decide what to do here? Should all these drivers be
switched to pinned_vm anyhow?
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-03 23:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-03 20:16 [PATCH] mm: add account_locked_vm utility function Daniel Jordan
2019-05-03 23:28 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2019-05-07 3:09 ` Daniel Jordan
2019-05-20 6:19 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2019-05-20 15:30 ` Daniel Jordan
2019-05-24 6:43 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2019-05-24 17:50 ` [PATCH v2] " Daniel Jordan
2019-05-25 21:51 ` Andrew Morton
2019-05-28 15:04 ` Daniel Jordan
2019-05-29 18:56 ` Alex Williamson
2019-05-29 20:50 ` [PATCH v3] " Daniel Jordan
2019-06-03 19:15 ` Alex Williamson
2019-05-29 18:05 ` [PATCH v2] " Ira Weiny
2019-05-29 18:35 ` Daniel Jordan
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