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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] hugetlbfs: Limit wait time when trying to share huge PMD
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 20:41:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190912034143.GJ29434@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ae7edcb8-74e5-037c-17e7-01b3cf9320af@oracle.com>

On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 08:26:52PM -0700, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> All this got me wondering if we really need to take i_mmap_rwsem in write
> mode here.  We are not changing the tree, only traversing it looking for
> a suitable vma.
> 
> Unless I am missing something, the hugetlb code only ever takes the semaphore
> in write mode; never read.  Could this have been the result of changing the
> tree semaphore to read/write?  Instead of analyzing all the code, the easiest
> and safest thing would have been to take all accesses in write mode.

I was wondering the same thing.  It was changed here:

commit 83cde9e8ba95d180eaefefe834958fbf7008cf39
Author: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Date:   Fri Dec 12 16:54:21 2014 -0800

    mm: use new helper functions around the i_mmap_mutex
    
    Convert all open coded mutex_lock/unlock calls to the
    i_mmap_[lock/unlock]_write() helpers.

and a subsequent patch said:

    This conversion is straightforward.  For now, all users take the write
    lock.

There were subsequent patches which changed a few places
c8475d144abb1e62958cc5ec281d2a9e161c1946
1acf2e040721564d579297646862b8ea3dd4511b
d28eb9c861f41aa2af4cfcc5eeeddff42b13d31e
874bfcaf79e39135cd31e1cfc9265cf5222d1ec3
3dec0ba0be6a532cac949e02b853021bf6d57dad

but I don't know why this one wasn't changed.

(I was also wondering about caching a potentially sharable page table
in the address_space to avoid having to walk the VMA tree at all if that
one happened to be sharable).

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-12  3:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-11 15:05 [PATCH 0/5] hugetlbfs: Disable PMD sharing for large systems Waiman Long
2019-09-11 15:05 ` [PATCH 1/5] locking/rwsem: Add down_write_timedlock() Waiman Long
2019-09-11 15:05 ` [PATCH 2/5] locking/rwsem: Enable timeout check when spinning on owner Waiman Long
2019-09-11 15:05 ` [PATCH 3/5] locking/osq: Allow early break from OSQ Waiman Long
2019-09-11 15:05 ` [PATCH 4/5] locking/rwsem: Enable timeout check when staying in the OSQ Waiman Long
2019-09-11 15:05 ` [PATCH 5/5] hugetlbfs: Limit wait time when trying to share huge PMD Waiman Long
2019-09-11 15:14   ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-09-11 15:44     ` Waiman Long
2019-09-11 17:03       ` Mike Kravetz
2019-09-11 17:15         ` Waiman Long
2019-09-11 17:22           ` Qian Cai
2019-09-11 17:28           ` Waiman Long
2019-09-11 16:01   ` Qian Cai
2019-09-11 16:34     ` Waiman Long
2019-09-11 19:42       ` Qian Cai
2019-09-11 20:54         ` Waiman Long
2019-09-11 21:57           ` Qian Cai
2019-09-11 19:57   ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-09-11 20:51     ` Waiman Long
2019-09-12  3:26   ` Mike Kravetz
2019-09-12  3:41     ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2019-09-12  4:40       ` Davidlohr Bueso
2019-09-16 13:53         ` Waiman Long
2019-09-12  9:06     ` Waiman Long
2019-09-12 16:43       ` Mike Kravetz
2019-09-13 18:23         ` Waiman Long
2019-09-13  1:50 ` [PATCH 0/5] hugetlbfs: Disable PMD sharing for large systems Dave Chinner
2019-09-25  8:35   ` Peter Zijlstra

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