Re: [net-next][PATCH v2 1/2] rds: handle unsupported rdma request to fs dax memory

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>]

On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 11:58:42AM -0700, santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com wrote:
> On 5/10/19 11:07 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 11:02:35AM -0700, santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On 5/10/19 10:55 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > > On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 09:11:24AM -0700, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> > > > > On 5/10/2019 5:54 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > > > > On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 04:37:19PM -0700, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> > > > > > > From: Hans Westgaard Ry <hans.westgaard.ry@oracle.com>
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > RDS doesn't support RDMA on memory apertures that require On Demand
> > > > > > > Paging (ODP), such as FS DAX memory. User applications can try to use
> > > > > > > RDS to perform RDMA over such memories and since it doesn't report any
> > > > > > > failure, it can lead to unexpected issues like memory corruption when
> > > > > > > a couple of out of sync file system operations like ftruncate etc. are
> > > > > > > performed.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > This comment doesn't make any sense..
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > > The patch adds a check so that such an attempt to RDMA to/from memory
> > > > > > > apertures requiring ODP will fail.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Reviewed-by: Håkon Bugge <haakon.bugge@oracle.com>
> > > > > > > Reviewed-tested-by: Zhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@oracle.com>
> > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Hans Westgaard Ry <hans.westgaard.ry@oracle.com>
> > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
> > > > > > >     net/rds/rdma.c | 5 +++--
> > > > > > >     1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > > > > > > 
> [...]
> 
> > 
> > Why would you need to detect FS DAX memory? GUP users are not supposed
> > to care.
> > 
> > GUP is supposed to work just 'fine' - other than the usual bugs we
> > have with GUP and any FS backed memory.
> > 
> Am not saying there is any issue with GUP. Let me try to explain the
> issue first. You are aware of various discussions about doing DMA
> or RDMA on FS DAX memory. e.g [1] [2] [3]
> 
> One of the proposal to do safely RDMA on FS DAX memory is/was ODP

It is not about safety. ODP is required in all places that would have
used gup_longterm because ODP avoids th gup_longterm entirely.

> Currently RDS doesn't have support for ODP MR registration
> and hence we don't want user application to do RDMA using
> fastreg/fmr on FS DAX memory which isn't safe.

No, it is safe.

The only issue is you need to determine if this use of GUP is longterm
or short term. Longterm means userspace is in control of how long the
GUP lasts, short term means the kernel is in control.

ie posting a fastreg, sending the data, then un-GUP'ing on completion
is a short term GUP and it is fine on any type of memory.

So if it is a long term pin then it needs to be corrected and the only
thing the comment needs to explain is that it is a long term pin.

Jason