Re: [PATCH v5 05/15] mm/frame-vector: Use FOLL_LONGTERM

Jason Gunthorpe
2020-11-04T19:02:27Z

On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 10:44:56AM -0800, John Hubbard wrote:
> On 11/4/20 10:17 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 04:41:19PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 04:37:58PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 05:26:58PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > > > What we're discussing is whether gup_fast and pup_fast also obey this,
> > > > > or fall over and can give you the struct page that's backing the
> > > > > dma_mmap_* memory. Since the _fast variant doesn't check for
> > > > > vma->vm_flags, and afaict that's the only thing which closes this gap.
> > > > > And like you restate, that would be a bit a problem. So where's that
> > > > > check which Jason&me aren't spotting?
> > > >
> > > > remap_pte_range uses pte_mkspecial to set up the PTEs, and gup_pte_range
> > > > errors out on pte_special. Of course this only works for the
> > > > CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL case, for other architectures we do have
> > > > a real problem.
> > >
> > > Except that we don't really support pte-level gup-fast without
> > > CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL, and in fact all architectures selecting
> > > HAVE_FAST_GUP also select ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL, so we should be fine.
> >
> > Mm, I thought it was probably the special flag..
> >
> > Knowing that CONFIG_HAVE_FAST_GUP can't be set without
> > CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL is pretty insightful, can we put that in
> > the Kconfig?
> >
> > config HAVE_FAST_GUP
> > depends on MMU
> > depends on ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL
> > bool
> >
> Well, the !CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL case points out in a comment that
> gup-fast is not *completely* unavailable there, so I don't think you want
> to shut it off like that:
>
> /*
> * If we can't determine whether or not a pte is special, then fail immediately
> * for ptes. Note, we can still pin HugeTLB and THP as these are guaranteed not
> * to be special.
> *
> * For a futex to be placed on a THP tail page, get_futex_key requires a
> * get_user_pages_fast_only implementation that can pin pages. Thus it's still
> * useful to have gup_huge_pmd even if we can't operate on ptes.
> */

I saw that once and I really couldn't make sense of it..
What use is having futex's that only work on THP pages? Confused

CH said there was no case of HAVE_FAST_GUP !ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL, is
one hidden someplace then?

Jason