Re: [RFC PATCH 6/7] RDMA/rxe: Add support for Send/Recv/Write/Read operations with ODP

[Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 11:43:04AM +0900, Daisuke Matsuda wrote:
> rxe_mr_copy() is used widely to copy data to/from a user MR. requester uses
> it to load payloads of requesting packets; responder uses it to process
> Send, Write, and Read operaetions; completer uses it to copy data from
> response packets of Read and Atomic operations to a user MR.
> 
> Allow these operations to be used with ODP by adding a counterpart function
> rxe_odp_mr_copy(). It is comprised of the following steps:
>  1. Check the driver page table(umem_odp->dma_list) to see if pages being
>     accessed are present with appropriate permission.
>  2. If necessary, trigger page fault to map the pages.
>  3. Convert their user space addresses to kernel logical addresses using
>     PFNs in the driver page table(umem_odp->pfn_list).
>  4. Execute data copy fo/from the pages.
> 
> umem_mutex is used to ensure that dma_list (an array of addresses of an MR)
> is not changed while it is checked and that mapped pages are not
> invalidated before data copy completes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daisuke Matsuda <matsuda-daisuke@fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe.c      |  10 ++
>  drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_loc.h  |   2 +
>  drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_mr.c   |   2 +-
>  drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_odp.c  | 173 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_resp.c |   6 +-
>  5 files changed, 190 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

<...>

> +/* umem mutex is always locked when returning from this function. */
> +static int rxe_odp_map_range(struct rxe_mr *mr, u64 iova, int length, u32 flags)
> +{
> +	struct ib_umem_odp *umem_odp = to_ib_umem_odp(mr->umem);
> +	const int max_tries = 3;
> +	int cnt = 0;
> +
> +	int err;
> +	u64 perm;
> +	bool need_fault;
> +
> +	if (unlikely(length < 1))
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +	perm = ODP_READ_ALLOWED_BIT;
> +	if (!(flags & RXE_PAGEFAULT_RDONLY))
> +		perm |= ODP_WRITE_ALLOWED_BIT;
> +
> +	mutex_lock(&umem_odp->umem_mutex);
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * A successful return from rxe_odp_do_pagefault() does not guarantee
> +	 * that all pages in the range became present. Recheck the DMA address
> +	 * array, allowing max 3 tries for pagefault.
> +	 */
> +	while ((need_fault = rxe_is_pagefault_neccesary(umem_odp,
> +							iova, length, perm))) {
> +
> +		if (cnt >= max_tries)
> +			break;
> +
> +		mutex_unlock(&umem_odp->umem_mutex);
> +
> +		/* rxe_odp_do_pagefault() locks the umem mutex. */

Maybe it is correct and safe to release lock in the middle, but it is
not clear. The whole pattern of taking lock in one function and later
releasing it in another doesn't look right to me.

Thanks