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[2003:cb:c706:c300:b066:75e3:f1d2:b69b]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id e18-20020a5d5952000000b00236883f2f5csm13821707wri.94.2022.11.22.04.38.38 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 22 Nov 2022 04:38:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <6ace6cd4-3e13-8ec1-4c2a-49e2e14e81a6@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 13:38:38 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.4.1 To: Hans Verkuil , Tomasz Figa , Marek Szyprowski Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, etnaviv@lists.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Jason Gunthorpe , John Hubbard , Peter Xu , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Andrea Arcangeli , Hugh Dickins , Nadav Amit , Vlastimil Babka , Matthew Wilcox , Mike Kravetz , Muchun Song , Lucas Stach , David Airlie , Oded Gabbay , Arnd Bergmann , Mauro Carvalho Chehab References: <20221107161740.144456-1-david@redhat.com> <20221107161740.144456-17-david@redhat.com> <6175d780-3307-854c-448a-8e6c7ad0772c@xs4all.nl> From: David Hildenbrand Organization: Red Hat Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 16/19] mm/frame-vector: remove FOLL_FORCE usage In-Reply-To: <6175d780-3307-854c-448a-8e6c7ad0772c@xs4all.nl> X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Language: en-US X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20221122_043846_364363_F8ED3F57 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 31.93 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On 22.11.22 13:25, Hans Verkuil wrote: > Hi Tomasz, David, > > On 11/8/22 05:45, Tomasz Figa wrote: >> Hi David, >> >> On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 1:19 AM David Hildenbrand wrote: >>> >>> FOLL_FORCE is really only for debugger access. According to commit >>> 707947247e95 ("media: videobuf2-vmalloc: get_userptr: buffers are always >>> writable"), the pinned pages are always writable. >> >> Actually that patch is only a workaround to temporarily disable >> support for read-only pages as they seemed to suffer from some >> corruption issues in the retrieved user pages. We expect to support >> read-only pages as hardware input after. That said, FOLL_FORCE doesn't >> sound like the right thing even in that case, but I don't know the >> background behind it being added here in the first place. +Hans >> Verkuil +Marek Szyprowski do you happen to remember anything about it? > > I tracked the use of 'force' all the way back to the first git commit > (2.6.12-rc1) in the very old video-buf.c. So it is very, very old and the > reason is lost in the mists of time. > > I'm not sure if the 'force' argument of get_user_pages() at that time > even meant the same as FOLL_FORCE today. From what I can tell it has just > been faithfully used ever since, but I have my doubt that anyone understands > the reason behind it since it was never explained. > > Looking at this old LWN article https://lwn.net/Articles/28548/ suggests > that it might be related to calling get_user_pages for write buffers > (non-zero write argument) where you also want to be able to read from the > buffer. That is certainly something that some drivers need to do post-capture > fixups. > > But 'force' was also always set for read buffers, and I don't know if that > was something that was actually needed, or just laziness. > > I assume that removing FOLL_FORCE from 'FOLL_FORCE|FOLL_WRITE' will still > allow drivers to read from the buffer? Yes. The only problematic corner case I can imagine is if someone has a VMA without write permissions (no PROT_WRITE/VM_WRITE) and wants to pin user space pages as a read buffer. We'd specify now FOLL_WRITE without FOLL_FORCE and GUP would reject that: write access without write permissions is invalid. There would be no way around "fixing" this implementation to not specify FOLL_WRITE when only reading from user-space pages. Not sure what the implications are regarding that corruption that was mentioned in 707947247e95. Having said that, I assume such a scenario is unlikely -- but you might know better how user space usually uses this interface. There would be three options: 1) Leave the FOLL_FORCE hack in for now, which I *really* want to avoid. 2) Remove FOLL_FORCE and see if anybody even notices (this patch) and leave the implementation as is for now. 3) Remove FOLL_FORCE and fixup the implementation to only specify FOLL_WRITE if the pages will actually get written to. 3) would most probably ideal, however, I am no expert on that code and can't do it (707947247e95 confuses me). So naive me would go with 2) first. -- Thanks, David / dhildenb _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel