From: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
To: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>,
"john.hubbard@gmail.com" <john.hubbard@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>,
Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@intel.com>,
Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com>,
Christian Benvenuti <benve@cisco.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] infiniband/mm: convert put_page() to put_user_page*()
Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 12:04:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190523190423.GA19578@iweiny-DESK2.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa6d7d7c-13a3-0586-6384-768ebb7f0561@nvidia.com>
On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 10:46:38AM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
> On 5/23/19 10:32 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 10:28:52AM -0700, Ira Weiny wrote:
> > > > @@ -686,8 +686,8 @@ int ib_umem_odp_map_dma_pages(struct ib_umem_odp *umem_odp, u64 user_virt,
> > > > * ib_umem_odp_map_dma_single_page().
> > > > */
> > > > if (npages - (j + 1) > 0)
> > > > - release_pages(&local_page_list[j+1],
> > > > - npages - (j + 1));
> > > > + put_user_pages(&local_page_list[j+1],
> > > > + npages - (j + 1));
> > >
> > > I don't know if we discussed this before but it looks like the use of
> > > release_pages() was not entirely correct (or at least not necessary) here. So
> > > I think this is ok.
> >
> > Oh? John switched it from a put_pages loop to release_pages() here:
> >
> > commit 75a3e6a3c129cddcc683538d8702c6ef998ec589
> > Author: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
> > Date: Mon Mar 4 11:46:45 2019 -0800
> >
> > RDMA/umem: minor bug fix in error handling path
> > 1. Bug fix: fix an off by one error in the code that cleans up if it fails
> > to dma-map a page, after having done a get_user_pages_remote() on a
> > range of pages.
> > 2. Refinement: for that same cleanup code, release_pages() is better than
> > put_page() in a loop.
> >
> > And now we are going to back something called put_pages() that
> > implements the same for loop the above removed?
> >
> > Seems like we are going in circles?? John?
> >
>
> put_user_pages() is meant to be a drop-in replacement for release_pages(),
> so I made the above change as an interim step in moving the callsite from
> a loop, to a single call.
>
> And at some point, it may be possible to find a way to optimize put_user_pages()
> in a similar way to the batching that release_pages() does, that was part
> of the plan for this.
>
> But I do see what you mean: in the interim, maybe put_user_pages() should
> just be calling release_pages(), how does that change sound?
I'm certainly not the expert here but FWICT release_pages() was originally
designed to work with the page cache.
aabfb57296e3 mm: memcontrol: do not kill uncharge batching in free_pages_and_swap_cache
But at some point it was changed to be more general?
ea1754a08476 mm, fs: remove remaining PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} usage
... and it is exported and used outside of the swapping code... and used at
lease 1 place to directly "put" pages gotten from get_user_pages_fast()
[arch/x86/kvm/svm.c]
From that it seems like it is safe.
But I don't see where release_page() actually calls put_page() anywhere? What
am I missing?
Ira
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-23 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-23 7:25 [PATCH 0/1] infiniband/mm: convert put_page() to put_user_page*() john.hubbard
2019-05-23 7:25 ` [PATCH 1/1] " john.hubbard
2019-05-23 15:31 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-05-23 17:56 ` John Hubbard
2019-05-23 17:28 ` Ira Weiny
2019-05-23 17:32 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-05-23 17:46 ` John Hubbard
2019-05-23 19:04 ` Ira Weiny [this message]
2019-05-23 19:13 ` John Hubbard
2019-05-23 22:37 ` Ira Weiny
2019-05-23 22:50 ` John Hubbard
2019-05-23 22:54 ` John Hubbard
2019-05-23 19:17 ` Jason Gunthorpe
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