Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] vmsplice unmap gifted pages for recipient

[Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

* Dave Hansen (dave@sr71.net) wrote:
> On 07/25/2013 10:21 AM, Robert Jennings wrote:
> > +static void zap_buf_page(unsigned long useraddr)
> > +{
> > +	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
> > +
> > +	down_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
> > +	vma = find_vma_intersection(current->mm, useraddr,
> > +			useraddr + PAGE_SIZE);
> > +	if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(vma))
> > +		zap_page_range(vma, useraddr, PAGE_SIZE, NULL);
> > +	up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
> > +}
> > +
> >  /**
> >   * splice_to_pipe - fill passed data into a pipe
> >   * @pipe:	pipe to fill
> > @@ -212,8 +224,16 @@ ssize_t splice_to_pipe(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
> >  			buf->len = spd->partial[page_nr].len;
> >  			buf->private = spd->partial[page_nr].private;
> >  			buf->ops = spd->ops;
> > -			if (spd->flags & SPLICE_F_GIFT)
> > +			if (spd->flags & SPLICE_F_GIFT) {
> > +				unsigned long useraddr =
> > +						spd->partial[page_nr].useraddr;
> > +
> > +				if ((spd->flags & SPLICE_F_MOVE) &&
> > +				    !buf->offset && (buf->len == PAGE_SIZE))
> > +					/* Can move page aligned buf */
> > +					zap_buf_page(useraddr);
> >  				buf->flags |= PIPE_BUF_FLAG_GIFT;
> > +			}
> 
> There isn't quite enough context here, but is it going to do this
> zap_buf_page() very often?  Seems a bit wasteful to do the up/down and
> find_vma() every trip through the loop.

The call to zap_buf_page() is in a loop where each pipe buffer is being
processed, but in that loop we have a pipe_wait() where we schedule().
So as things are structured I don't have the ability to hold mmap_sem
for multiple find_vma() calls.