Re: [PATCH RFC 00/15] decouple pagefault_disable() from preempt_disable()

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> wrote:

> Am 07.05.2015 um 11:48 schrieb Ingo Molnar:
> > 
> > * Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Wed,  6 May 2015 19:50:24 +0200 David Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> As Peter asked me to also do the decoupling in one shot, this is
> >>> the new series.
> >>>
> >>> I recently discovered that might_fault() doesn't call might_sleep()
> >>> anymore. Therefore bugs like:
> >>>
> >>>   spin_lock(&lock);
> >>>   rc = copy_to_user(...);
> >>>   spin_unlock(&lock);
> >>>
> >>> would not be detected with CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP. The code was
> >>> changed to disable false positives for code like:
> >>>
> >>>   pagefault_disable();
> >>>   rc = copy_to_user(...);
> >>>   pagefault_enable();
> >>>
> >>> Whereby the caller wants do deal with failures.
> >>
> >> hm, that was a significant screwup.  I wonder how many bugs we
> >> subsequently added.
> > 
> > So I'm wondering what the motivation was to allow things like:
> > 
> >    pagefault_disable();
> >    rc = copy_to_user(...);
> >    pagefault_enable();
> > 
> > and to declare it a false positive?
> > 
> > AFAICS most uses are indeed atomic:
> > 
> >         pagefault_disable();
> >         ret = futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(curval, uaddr, uval, newval);
> >         pagefault_enable();
> > 
> > so why not make it explicitly atomic again?
> 
> Hmm, I am probably misreading that, but it sound as you suggest to go back
> to Davids first proposal
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/25/436
> which makes might_fault to also contain might_sleep. Correct?

Yes, but I'm wondering what I'm missing: is there any deep reason for 
making pagefaults-disabled sections non-atomic?

Thanks,

	Ingo

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