From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: WARNING in __mmdrop
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 21:31:35 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <caff362a-e208-3468-3688-63e1d093a9d3@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190723051828-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org>
On 2019/7/23 下午5:26, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 04:49:01PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>> On 2019/7/23 下午4:10, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 03:53:06PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>>>> On 2019/7/23 下午3:23, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>>>>>> Really let's just use kfree_rcu. It's way cleaner: fire and forget.
>>>>>> Looks not, you need rate limit the fire as you've figured out?
>>>>> See the discussion that followed. Basically no, it's good enough
>>>>> already and is only going to be better.
>>>>>
>>>>>> And in fact,
>>>>>> the synchronization is not even needed, does it help if I leave a comment to
>>>>>> explain?
>>>>> Let's try to figure it out in the mail first. I'm pretty sure the
>>>>> current logic is wrong.
>>>> Here is what the code what to achieve:
>>>>
>>>> - The map was protected by RCU
>>>>
>>>> - Writers are: MMU notifier invalidation callbacks, file operations (ioctls
>>>> etc), meta_prefetch (datapath)
>>>>
>>>> - Readers are: memory accessor
>>>>
>>>> Writer are synchronized through mmu_lock. RCU is used to synchronized
>>>> between writers and readers.
>>>>
>>>> The synchronize_rcu() in vhost_reset_vq_maps() was used to synchronized it
>>>> with readers (memory accessors) in the path of file operations. But in this
>>>> case, vq->mutex was already held, this means it has been serialized with
>>>> memory accessor. That's why I think it could be removed safely.
>>>>
>>>> Anything I miss here?
>>>>
>>> So invalidate callbacks need to reset the map, and they do
>>> not have vq mutex. How can they do this and free
>>> the map safely? They need synchronize_rcu or kfree_rcu right?
>> Invalidation callbacks need but file operations (e.g ioctl) not.
>>
>>
>>> And I worry somewhat that synchronize_rcu in an MMU notifier
>>> is a problem, MMU notifiers are supposed to be quick:
>> Looks not, since it can allow to be blocked and lots of driver depends on
>> this. (E.g mmu_notifier_range_blockable()).
> Right, they can block. So why don't we take a VQ mutex and be
> done with it then? No RCU tricks.
This is how I want to go with RFC and V1. But I end up with deadlock
between vq locks and some MM internal locks. So I decide to use RCU
which is 100% under the control of vhost.
Thanks
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-23 13:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-19 3:35 WARNING in __mmdrop syzbot
2019-07-20 10:08 ` syzbot
2019-07-21 10:02 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-21 12:18 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-22 5:24 ` Jason Wang
2019-07-22 8:08 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-23 4:01 ` Jason Wang
2019-07-23 5:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-23 5:47 ` Jason Wang
2019-07-23 7:23 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-23 7:53 ` Jason Wang
2019-07-23 8:10 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-23 8:49 ` Jason Wang
2019-07-23 9:26 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-23 13:31 ` Jason Wang [this message]
2019-07-25 5:52 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 7:43 ` Jason Wang
2019-07-25 8:28 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 13:21 ` Jason Wang
2019-07-25 13:26 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 14:25 ` Jason Wang
2019-07-26 11:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-26 12:00 ` Jason Wang
2019-07-26 12:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-26 12:53 ` Jason Wang
2019-07-26 13:36 ` Jason Wang
2019-07-26 13:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-29 5:54 ` Jason Wang
2019-07-29 8:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-29 14:24 ` Jason Wang
2019-07-29 14:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-30 7:44 ` Jason Wang
2019-07-30 8:03 ` Jason Wang
2019-07-30 15:08 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-31 8:49 ` Jason Wang
2019-07-31 23:00 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-07-26 13:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-26 14:00 ` Jason Wang
2019-07-26 14:10 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-26 15:03 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-07-29 5:56 ` Jason Wang
2019-07-21 12:28 ` RFC: call_rcu_outstanding (was Re: WARNING in __mmdrop) Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-21 13:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-07-21 17:53 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-21 19:28 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-07-22 7:56 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-22 11:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-07-21 21:08 ` Matthew Wilcox
2019-07-21 23:31 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-07-22 7:52 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-22 11:51 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-07-22 13:41 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-07-22 15:52 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-07-22 16:04 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-07-22 16:15 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-22 16:15 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-07-22 15:14 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-07-22 15:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-22 15:55 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-07-22 16:13 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-22 16:25 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-07-22 16:32 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-22 18:58 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-07-22 5:21 ` WARNING in __mmdrop Jason Wang
2019-07-22 8:02 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-23 3:55 ` Jason Wang
2019-07-23 5:02 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-23 5:48 ` Jason Wang
2019-07-23 7:25 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-23 7:55 ` Jason Wang
2019-07-23 7:56 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-23 8:42 ` Jason Wang
2019-07-23 10:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-23 13:34 ` Jason Wang
2019-07-23 15:02 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-24 2:17 ` Jason Wang
2019-07-24 8:05 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-24 10:08 ` Jason Wang
2019-07-24 18:25 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 3:44 ` Jason Wang
2019-07-25 5:09 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-24 16:53 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-07-24 18:25 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-23 10:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-23 13:37 ` Jason Wang
2019-07-22 14:11 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-07-25 6:02 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-07-25 7:44 ` Jason Wang
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