From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8924C04E87 for ; Tue, 21 May 2019 16:44:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B635B2182B for ; Tue, 21 May 2019 16:44:14 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1558457054; bh=qQZm8Nb/SzGNYia6YWo9lmooe1BQu0rQ4dsfiiwy4L0=; h=References:In-Reply-To:From:Date:Subject:To:Cc:List-ID:From; b=oVSrHsqASLhGricT0Vc/oozZZIw9EybDc3jeqSPxzr0s10Ykfj18cd86s7qAXogiM g5fXSdFrs+wZ0DLORLcCbyVClNfgBnGHZ3PgqLaQ1RVe5BA159+MlBmki6NqUQZwxQ iPPJrNIjkKhtuEdOH7o8A0Hfn0eD18AakUpCU20k= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729047AbfEUQoN (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 May 2019 12:44:13 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:34298 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728103AbfEUQoM (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 May 2019 12:44:12 -0400 Received: from mail-wr1-f52.google.com (mail-wr1-f52.google.com [209.85.221.52]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 83B4621872 for ; Tue, 21 May 2019 16:44:11 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1558457051; bh=qQZm8Nb/SzGNYia6YWo9lmooe1BQu0rQ4dsfiiwy4L0=; h=References:In-Reply-To:From:Date:Subject:To:Cc:From; b=zpIgXxDCkoO2vVHWlTYLw1c5wyXjd3sIECQdfG1SeUtg/azv7nVZmt5nge5TvMFGf /HflMm9yUHf3EmK+ynkHa4lj7QPGPUSkpCcfalXiSy9ZfBMMleMmq0OHcZXWrkh7D5 arfTpmXPHGf9FtxafSrOwRlr9Il24S3QN3O5gHkM= Received: by mail-wr1-f52.google.com with SMTP id b18so19346338wrq.12 for ; Tue, 21 May 2019 09:44:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAV+CossqlCajKm+RYTnd4R8HEfqjX+C0997OURox2U5h0/NO50+ vun6g4Nytlx/o+RrrmsklVcu5zPKY3jmOm69UeMndw== X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqyiAsj6k2lelSuLzA8lDaQTA5IuKvejy22iJ5REZyntNBokRByJ8IeZaodL+yAi+2uA4IBjt6XmnPRl80KDcsU= X-Received: by 2002:a5d:4a92:: with SMTP id o18mr7798645wrq.80.1558457048163; Tue, 21 May 2019 09:44:08 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <155836064844.2441.10911127801797083064.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <9638a51c-4295-924f-1852-1783c7f3e82d@virtuozzo.com> In-Reply-To: <9638a51c-4295-924f-1852-1783c7f3e82d@virtuozzo.com> From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 09:43:56 -0700 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] mm: process_vm_mmap() -- syscall for duplication a process mapping To: Kirill Tkhai Cc: Andy Lutomirski , Andrew Morton , Dan Williams , Michal Hocko , Keith Busch , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com, Weiny Ira , Andrey Konovalov , arunks@codeaurora.org, Vlastimil Babka , Christoph Lameter , Rik van Riel , Kees Cook , Johannes Weiner , Nicholas Piggin , Mathieu Desnoyers , Shakeel Butt , Roman Gushchin , Andrea Arcangeli , Hugh Dickins , Jerome Glisse , Mel Gorman , daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com, Jann Horn , Adam Borowski , Linux API , LKML , Linux-MM Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 8:52 AM Kirill Tkhai wrote: > > On 21.05.2019 17:43, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 7:01 AM Kirill Tkhai wrote: > >> > > > >> [Summary] > >> > >> New syscall, which allows to clone a remote process VMA > >> into local process VM. The remote process's page table > >> entries related to the VMA are cloned into local process's > >> page table (in any desired address, which makes this different > >> from that happens during fork()). Huge pages are handled > >> appropriately. > >> > >> This allows to improve performance in significant way like > >> it's shows in the example below. > >> > >> [Description] > >> > >> This patchset adds a new syscall, which makes possible > >> to clone a VMA from a process to current process. > >> The syscall supplements the functionality provided > >> by process_vm_writev() and process_vm_readv() syscalls, > >> and it may be useful in many situation. > >> > >> For example, it allows to make a zero copy of data, > >> when process_vm_writev() was previously used: > >> > >> struct iovec local_iov, remote_iov; > >> void *buf; > >> > >> buf = mmap(NULL, n * PAGE_SIZE, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, > >> MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, ...); > >> recv(sock, buf, n * PAGE_SIZE, 0); > >> > >> local_iov->iov_base = buf; > >> local_iov->iov_len = n * PAGE_SIZE; > >> remove_iov = ...; > >> > >> process_vm_writev(pid, &local_iov, 1, &remote_iov, 1 0); > >> munmap(buf, n * PAGE_SIZE); > >> > >> (Note, that above completely ignores error handling) > >> > >> There are several problems with process_vm_writev() in this example: > >> > >> 1)it causes pagefault on remote process memory, and it forces > >> allocation of a new page (if was not preallocated); > > > > I don't see how your new syscall helps. You're writing to remote > > memory. If that memory wasn't allocated, it's going to get allocated > > regardless of whether you use a write-like interface or an mmap-like > > interface. > > No, the talk is not about just another interface for copying memory. > The talk is about borrowing of remote task's VMA and corresponding > page table's content. Syscall allows to copy part of page table > with preallocated pages from remote to local process. See here: > > [task1] [task2] > > buf = mmap(NULL, n * PAGE_SIZE, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, > MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, ...); > > > > buf = process_vm_mmap(pid_of_task1, addr, n * PAGE_SIZE, ...); > munmap(buf); > > > process_vm_mmap() copies PTEs related to memory of buf in task1 to task2 > just like in the way we do during fork syscall. If I understand this correctly, your intended use is to have one task allocate memory and fill it, have the other task clone the VMA, and have the first task free the VMA? If so, that wasn't at all obvious from your original email. Why don't you use splice() instead? splice() the data to the remote task and have the remove task read() it? All these VMA games will result in a lot of flushes, which is bad for performance. Or, depending on your exact constraints, you could map a memfd in both tasks instead, which has the same flushing issues but at least has a sensible API. > > There is no copying of buf memory content, unless COW happens. This is > the principal difference to process_vm_writev(), which just allocates > pages in remote VM. > > > Keep in mind that, on x86, just the hardware part of a > > page fault is very slow -- populating the memory with a syscall > > instead of a fault may well be faster. > > It is not as slow, as disk IO has. Just compare, what happens in case of anonymous > pages related to buf of task1 are swapped: > > 1)process_vm_writev() reads them back into memory; > > 2)process_vm_mmap() just copies swap PTEs from task1 page table > to task2 page table. > > Also, for faster page faults one may use huge pages for the mappings. > But really, it's funny to think about page faults, when there are > disk IO problems I shown. What are you doing that is causing *disk* IO in any of this? I suspect your real problem is that you are using far too large of a buffer. See below. > > >> > >> 2)amount of memory for this example is doubled in a moment -- > >> n pages in current and n pages in remote tasks are occupied > >> at the same time; > > > > This seems disingenuous. If you're writing p pages total in chunks of > > n pages, you will use a total of p pages if you use mmap and p+n if > > you use write. > > I didn't understand this sentence because of many ifs, sorry. Could you > please explain your thought once again? You seem to have a function that tries to populate p pages of memory with data received from a socket. It looks like you're doing something like this: void copy_p_pages(size_t p) { size_t n = some_value(p); char *buf = malloc(n * PAGE_SIZE); for (int i = 0; i < p; i += n*PAGE_SIZE) { read(fd, buf, n*PAGE_SIZE); /* check return value, etc */ process_vm_writev(write n*PAGE_SIZE bytes to remote process); } free(buf); } If you have a *constant* n (i.e. some_value(p) is just a number like 16)), then you aren't doubling memory usage. If you have some_value(p) return p, then you are indeed doubling memory usage. So don't do that! If buf is getting swapped out, you are very likely doing something wrong. If you're using a 100MB buffer or a 10GB, then I'm not surprised you have problems. Try something reasonable like 128kB. For extra fun, you could mlock() that buf, but if you're thrashing on access to a 128kB working set, you will probably also get your *code* swapped out, in which case you pretty much lose. > > For example, if the remote VMA is MAP_ANONYMOUS, do you get > > a CoW copy of it? I assume you don't since the whole point is to > > write to remote memory > > But, no, there *is* COW semantic. We do not copy memory. We copy > page table content. This is just the same we have on fork(), when > children duplicates parent's VMA and related page table subset, > and parent's PTEs lose _PAGE_RW flag. Then you need to document this very carefully, because other people will use your syscall in different ways than you use it. And, if you are doing CoW like this, then your syscall is basically only useful for your really weird use case in which you're using it to import an already-populated VMA. Maybe this is a reasonable feature to add to the kernel, but it needs a benchmark against a reasonable alternative. > > There is all copy_page_range() code reused for that. Please, see [3/7] > for the details. You can't as users of a syscall to read the nitty gritty mm code to figure out what the syscall does from a user's perspective. > > But there are plenty of other questions. > > What happens if the remote VMA is a gate area or other special mapping > > (vDSO, vvar area, etc)? What if the remote memory comes from a driver > > that wasn't expecting the mapping to get magically copied to a > > different process? > > In case of someone wants to duplicate such the mappings, we may consider > that, and extend the interface in the future for VMA types, which are > safe for that. Do you mean that the code you sent rejects this case? If so, please document it. In any case, I looked at the code, and it seems to be trying to handle MAP_SHARED and MAP_ANONYMOUS. I don't see where it would reject copying a vDSO.