From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
"stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>,
linux-rdma <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] mm: introduce get_user_pages_longterm
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 09:02:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171201160204.GI7754@ziepe.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171201101218.mxjyv4fc4cjwhf2o@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 11:12:18AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 30-11-17 12:01:17, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 10:32:42AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > > Who and how many LRU pages can pin that way and how do you prevent nasty
> > > > users to DoS systems this way?
> > >
> > > I assume this is something the RDMA community has had to contend with?
> > > I'm not an RDMA person, I'm just here to fix dax.
> >
> > The RDMA implementation respects the mlock rlimit
>
> OK, so then I am kind of lost in why do we need a special g-u-p variant.
> The documentation doesn't say and quite contrary it assumes that the
> caller knows what he is doing. This cannot be the right approach.
I thought it was because get_user_pages_longterm is supposed to fail
on DAX mappings?
And maybe we should think about moving the rlimit accounting into this
new function too someday?
Jason
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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
"stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>,
linux-rdma <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] mm: introduce get_user_pages_longterm
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 09:02:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171201160204.GI7754@ziepe.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171201101218.mxjyv4fc4cjwhf2o@dhcp22.suse.cz>
On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 11:12:18AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 30-11-17 12:01:17, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 10:32:42AM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > > Who and how many LRU pages can pin that way and how do you prevent nasty
> > > > users to DoS systems this way?
> > >
> > > I assume this is something the RDMA community has had to contend with?
> > > I'm not an RDMA person, I'm just here to fix dax.
> >
> > The RDMA implementation respects the mlock rlimit
>
> OK, so then I am kind of lost in why do we need a special g-u-p variant.
> The documentation doesn't say and quite contrary it assumes that the
> caller knows what he is doing. This cannot be the right approach.
I thought it was because get_user_pages_longterm is supposed to fail
on DAX mappings?
And maybe we should think about moving the rlimit accounting into this
new function too someday?
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-01 16:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-29 18:05 [PATCH v3 0/4] introduce get_user_pages_longterm() Dan Williams
2017-11-29 18:05 ` Dan Williams
2017-11-29 18:05 ` Dan Williams
2017-11-29 18:05 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] mm: introduce get_user_pages_longterm Dan Williams
2017-11-29 18:05 ` Dan Williams
2017-11-29 18:05 ` Dan Williams
2017-11-30 9:53 ` Michal Hocko
2017-11-30 9:53 ` Michal Hocko
2017-11-30 16:39 ` Dan Williams
2017-11-30 16:39 ` Dan Williams
2017-11-30 17:42 ` Michal Hocko
2017-11-30 17:42 ` Michal Hocko
2017-11-30 18:03 ` Dan Williams
2017-11-30 18:03 ` Dan Williams
2017-11-30 18:03 ` Dan Williams
2017-11-30 18:17 ` Michal Hocko
2017-11-30 18:17 ` Michal Hocko
2017-11-30 18:17 ` Michal Hocko
2017-11-30 18:32 ` Dan Williams
2017-11-30 18:32 ` Dan Williams
2017-11-30 19:01 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2017-11-30 19:01 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2017-12-01 10:12 ` Michal Hocko
2017-12-01 10:12 ` Michal Hocko
2017-12-01 10:12 ` Michal Hocko
2017-12-01 10:12 ` Michal Hocko
2017-12-01 16:02 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2017-12-01 16:02 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2017-12-01 16:29 ` Dan Williams
2017-12-01 16:29 ` Dan Williams
2017-12-01 16:29 ` Dan Williams
2017-12-01 16:31 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2017-12-01 16:31 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2017-12-04 9:31 ` Michal Hocko
2017-12-04 9:31 ` Michal Hocko
2017-12-04 17:01 ` Dan Williams
2017-12-04 17:01 ` Dan Williams
2017-12-04 17:01 ` Dan Williams
2017-11-29 18:05 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] mm: fail get_vaddr_frames() for filesystem-dax mappings Dan Williams
2017-11-29 18:05 ` Dan Williams
2017-11-29 18:05 ` Dan Williams
2017-11-29 18:05 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] [media] v4l2: disable filesystem-dax mapping support Dan Williams
2017-11-29 18:05 ` Dan Williams
2017-11-29 18:05 ` Dan Williams
2017-11-29 18:05 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] IB/core: disable memory registration of fileystem-dax vmas Dan Williams
2017-11-29 18:05 ` Dan Williams
2017-11-29 18:05 ` Dan Williams
2017-11-29 18:36 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2017-11-29 18:36 ` Jason Gunthorpe
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