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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	linux-csky@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/25] mm/csky: Use mm_fault_accounting()
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 10:53:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wi=58J7d5iyFyYyHrU+pzjWB55cit_LQCkSkavpH-trsg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200617154925.GC76766@xz-x1>

On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 8:49 AM Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> I don't think it's a must, but mmap_sem should not be required at least by
> observing current code.  E.g., do_user_addr_fault() of x86 does the accounting
> without mmap_sem even before this series.

All the accounting should be per-thread and not need any locking.

Which is why a remote GUP should never account to the remote mm - not
only isn't there an unambiguous thread to account to (an mm can share
many threads), but it would require locking not just for the remote
update, but for all normal page faults.

                 Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-17 17:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-15 22:15 [PATCH 00/25] mm: Page fault accounting cleanups Peter Xu
2020-06-15 22:15 ` [PATCH 01/25] mm/um: Fix extra accounting for page fault retries Peter Xu
2020-06-15 22:15 ` [PATCH 02/25] mm: Introduce mm_fault_accounting() Peter Xu
2020-06-15 22:32   ` Linus Torvalds
2020-06-15 23:19     ` Peter Xu
2020-06-16 19:00       ` Andrew Morton
2020-06-17 16:26         ` Peter Xu
2020-06-15 22:15 ` [PATCH 03/25] mm/alpha: Use mm_fault_accounting() Peter Xu
2020-06-15 22:15 ` [PATCH 04/25] mm/arc: " Peter Xu
2020-06-15 22:15 ` [PATCH 05/25] mm/arm: " Peter Xu
2020-06-15 22:15 ` [PATCH 06/25] mm/arm64: " Peter Xu
2020-06-16  7:43   ` Will Deacon
2020-06-16 15:59     ` Peter Xu
2020-06-15 22:15 ` [PATCH 07/25] mm/csky: " Peter Xu
2020-06-17  7:04   ` Guo Ren
2020-06-17 15:49     ` Peter Xu
2020-06-17 17:53       ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2020-06-17 19:58         ` Peter Xu
2020-06-17 20:15           ` Linus Torvalds
2020-06-18 14:38             ` Peter Xu
2020-06-18 17:15               ` Linus Torvalds
2020-06-18 21:24                 ` Peter Xu
2020-06-18 22:28                   ` Peter Xu
2020-06-18 22:59                     ` Linus Torvalds
2020-06-15 22:15 ` [PATCH 08/25] mm/hexagon: " Peter Xu
2020-06-15 22:15 ` [PATCH 09/25] mm/ia64: " Peter Xu
2020-06-15 22:15 ` [PATCH 10/25] mm/m68k: " Peter Xu
2020-06-15 22:15 ` [PATCH 11/25] mm/microblaze: " Peter Xu
2020-06-15 22:15 ` [PATCH 12/25] mm/mips: " Peter Xu
2020-06-15 22:15 ` [PATCH 13/25] mm/nds32: " Peter Xu
2020-06-17  1:05   ` Greentime Hu
2020-06-15 22:15 ` [PATCH 14/25] mm/nios2: " Peter Xu
2020-06-15 22:15 ` [PATCH 15/25] mm/openrisc: " Peter Xu
2020-06-16 18:11   ` Stafford Horne
2020-06-15 22:15 ` [PATCH 16/25] mm/parisc: " Peter Xu
2020-06-15 22:15 ` [PATCH 17/25] mm/powerpc: " Peter Xu
2020-06-15 22:16 ` [PATCH 18/25] mm/riscv: " Peter Xu
2020-06-18 23:49   ` Palmer Dabbelt
2020-06-19  0:12     ` Peter Xu
2020-06-15 22:23 ` [PATCH 19/25] mm/s390: " Peter Xu
2020-06-16 15:59   ` Alexander Gordeev
2020-06-16 16:35     ` Peter Xu
2020-06-17  6:19       ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-06-17 16:06         ` Peter Xu
2020-06-17 16:14           ` Christian Borntraeger
2020-06-17 16:44             ` Peter Xu
2020-06-15 22:23 ` [PATCH 20/25] mm/sh: " Peter Xu
2020-07-20 21:25   ` Rich Felker
2020-07-20 22:05     ` Peter Xu
2020-06-15 22:23 ` [PATCH 21/25] mm/sparc32: " Peter Xu
2020-06-15 22:23 ` [PATCH 22/25] mm/sparc64: " Peter Xu
2020-06-15 22:23 ` [PATCH 23/25] mm/unicore32: " Peter Xu
2020-06-15 22:23 ` [PATCH 24/25] mm/x86: " Peter Xu
2020-06-15 22:23 ` [PATCH 25/25] mm/xtensa: " Peter Xu
2020-06-15 23:13   ` Max Filippov
2020-06-16 18:55 ` [PATCH 00/25] mm: Page fault accounting cleanups Linus Torvalds
2020-06-16 21:03   ` Peter Xu
2020-06-17  0:55   ` Michael Ellerman
2020-06-17  8:04     ` Will Deacon
2020-06-17 16:10       ` Peter Xu

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