From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Michel Lespinasse <michel@lespinasse.org>
Cc: Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
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Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/35] Speculative page faults
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 17:14:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220131171434.89870a8f1ae294912e7ff19e@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220128131006.67712-1-michel@lespinasse.org>
On Fri, 28 Jan 2022 05:09:31 -0800 Michel Lespinasse <michel@lespinasse.org> wrote:
> Patchset summary:
>
> Classical page fault processing takes the mmap read lock in order to
> prevent races with mmap writers. In contrast, speculative fault
> processing does not take the mmap read lock, and instead verifies,
> when the results of the page fault are about to get committed and
> become visible to other threads, that no mmap writers have been
> running concurrently with the page fault. If the check fails,
> speculative updates do not get committed and the fault is retried
> in the usual, non-speculative way (with the mmap read lock held).
>
> The concurrency check is implemented using a per-mm mmap sequence count.
> The counter is incremented at the beginning and end of each mmap write
> operation. If the counter is initially observed to have an even value,
> and has the same value later on, the observer can deduce that no mmap
> writers have been running concurrently with it between those two times.
> This is similar to a seqlock, except that readers never spin on the
> counter value (they would instead revert to taking the mmap read lock),
> and writers are allowed to sleep. One benefit of this approach is that
> it requires no writer side changes, just some hooks in the mmap write
> lock APIs that writers already use.
>
> The first step of a speculative page fault is to look up the vma and
> read its contents (currently by making a copy of the vma, though in
> principle it would be sufficient to only read the vma attributes that
> are used in page faults). The mmap sequence count is used to verify
> that there were no mmap writers concurrent to the lookup and copy steps.
> Note that walking rbtrees while there may potentially be concurrent
> writers is not an entirely new idea in linux, as latched rbtrees
> are already doing this. This is safe as long as the lookup is
> followed by a sequence check to verify that concurrency did not
> actually occur (and abort the speculative fault if it did).
I'm surprised that descending the rbtree locklessly doesn't flat-out
oops the kernel. How are we assured that every pointer which is
encountered actually points at the right thing? Against things
which tear that tree down?
> The next step is to walk down the existing page table tree to find the
> current pte entry. This is done with interrupts disabled to avoid
> races with munmap().
Sebastian, could you please comment on this from the CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
point of view?
> Again, not an entirely new idea, as this repeats
> a pattern already present in fast GUP. Similar precautions are also
> taken when taking the page table lock.
>
> Breaking COW on an existing mapping may require firing MMU notifiers.
> Some care is required to avoid racing with registering new notifiers.
> This patchset adds a new per-cpu rwsem to handle this situation.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-01 1:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-28 13:09 [PATCH v2 00/35] Speculative page faults Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-28 13:09 ` [PATCH v2 01/35] mm: export dump_mm Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-28 13:09 ` [PATCH v2 02/35] mmap locking API: mmap_lock_is_contended returns a bool Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-28 13:09 ` [PATCH v2 03/35] mmap locking API: name the return values Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-31 16:17 ` Liam Howlett
2022-02-07 17:39 ` Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-28 13:09 ` [PATCH v2 04/35] do_anonymous_page: use update_mmu_tlb() Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-28 13:09 ` [PATCH v2 05/35] do_anonymous_page: reduce code duplication Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-28 13:09 ` [PATCH v2 06/35] mm: introduce CONFIG_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-28 13:09 ` [PATCH v2 07/35] x86/mm: define ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-28 13:09 ` [PATCH v2 08/35] mm: add FAULT_FLAG_SPECULATIVE flag Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-28 13:09 ` [PATCH v2 09/35] mm: add do_handle_mm_fault() Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-28 13:09 ` [PATCH v2 10/35] mm: add per-mm mmap sequence counter for speculative page fault handling Michel Lespinasse
2022-08-25 11:23 ` Pavan Kondeti
2022-01-28 13:09 ` [PATCH v2 11/35] mm: rcu safe vma freeing Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-28 13:09 ` [PATCH v2 12/35] mm: separate mmap locked assertion from find_vma Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-29 0:08 ` kernel test robot
2022-01-29 0:33 ` Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-31 14:44 ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-02-04 22:41 ` Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-28 13:09 ` [PATCH v2 13/35] x86/mm: attempt speculative mm faults first Michel Lespinasse
2022-02-01 17:16 ` Liam Howlett
2022-02-07 17:39 ` Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-28 13:09 ` [PATCH v2 14/35] mm: add speculative_page_walk_begin() and speculative_page_walk_end() Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-28 13:09 ` [PATCH v2 15/35] mm: refactor __handle_mm_fault() / handle_pte_fault() Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-28 13:09 ` [PATCH v2 16/35] mm: implement speculative handling in __handle_mm_fault() Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-28 13:09 ` [PATCH v2 17/35] mm: add pte_map_lock() and pte_spinlock() Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-28 13:09 ` [PATCH v2 18/35] mm: implement speculative handling in do_anonymous_page() Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-28 21:03 ` kernel test robot
2022-01-28 22:08 ` Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-30 2:54 ` [mm] fa5331bae2: canonical_address#:#[##] kernel test robot
2022-01-30 5:08 ` Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-28 13:09 ` [PATCH v2 19/35] mm: enable speculative fault handling through do_anonymous_page() Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-28 13:09 ` [PATCH v2 20/35] mm: implement speculative handling in do_numa_page() Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-28 13:09 ` [PATCH v2 21/35] mm: enable speculative fault " Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-28 13:09 ` [PATCH v2 22/35] percpu-rwsem: enable percpu_sem destruction in atomic context Michel Lespinasse
[not found] ` <20220129121319.3593-1-hdanton@sina.com>
2022-01-31 18:04 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
[not found] ` <20220201020958.3720-1-hdanton@sina.com>
2022-02-07 19:31 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
[not found] ` <20220208002059.2670-1-hdanton@sina.com>
2022-02-08 1:31 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2022-01-28 13:09 ` [PATCH v2 23/35] mm: add mmu_notifier_lock Michel Lespinasse
2022-07-27 7:34 ` Pavan Kondeti
2022-07-27 20:30 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2022-01-28 13:09 ` [PATCH v2 24/35] mm: write lock mmu_notifier_lock when registering mmu notifiers Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-28 13:09 ` [PATCH v2 25/35] mm: add mmu_notifier_trylock() and mmu_notifier_unlock() Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-28 13:09 ` [PATCH v2 26/35] mm: implement speculative handling in wp_page_copy() Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-28 13:09 ` [PATCH v2 27/35] mm: implement and enable speculative fault handling in handle_pte_fault() Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-28 13:09 ` [PATCH v2 28/35] mm: disable speculative faults for single threaded user space Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-28 13:10 ` [PATCH v2 29/35] mm: disable rcu safe vma freeing " Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-28 13:10 ` [PATCH v2 30/35] mm: create new include/linux/vm_event.h header file Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-28 13:10 ` [PATCH v2 31/35] mm: anon spf statistics Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-28 13:10 ` [PATCH v2 32/35] arm64/mm: define ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-28 13:10 ` [PATCH v2 33/35] arm64/mm: attempt speculative mm faults first Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-30 9:13 ` Mike Rapoport
2022-01-31 8:07 ` Michel Lespinasse
2022-02-01 8:58 ` Mike Rapoport
2022-02-07 17:39 ` Michel Lespinasse
2022-02-08 9:07 ` Mike Rapoport
2022-01-28 13:10 ` [PATCH v2 34/35] powerpc/mm: define ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-28 13:10 ` [PATCH v2 35/35] powerpc/mm: attempt speculative mm faults first Michel Lespinasse
2022-01-31 9:56 ` [PATCH v2 00/35] Speculative page faults David Hildenbrand
2022-01-31 17:00 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
2022-02-01 1:14 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2022-02-01 2:20 ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-02-07 17:39 ` Michel Lespinasse
2022-02-01 17:17 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2022-02-23 16:11 ` Mel Gorman
2022-03-08 5:37 ` Suren Baghdasaryan
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