From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [patch 2/2]: introduce fast_gup From: Peter Zijlstra In-Reply-To: <480C81C4.8030200@qumranet.com> References: <20080328025455.GA8083@wotan.suse.de> <20080328030023.GC8083@wotan.suse.de> <1208444605.7115.2.camel@twins> <480C81C4.8030200@qumranet.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:30:13 +0200 Message-Id: <1208781013.7115.173.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Avi Kivity Cc: Linus Torvalds , Nick Piggin , Andrew Morton , shaggy@austin.ibm.com, axboe@kernel.dk, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Clark Williams , Ingo Molnar List-ID: On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 15:00 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Finally, I don't think that comment is correct in the first place. It's > > not that simple. The thing is, even *with* the memory barrier in place, we > > may have: > > > > CPU#1 CPU#2 > > ===== ===== > > > > fast_gup: > > - read low word > > > > native_set_pte_present: > > - set low word to 0 > > - set high word to new value > > > > - read high word > > > > - set low word to new value > > > > and so you read a low word that is associated with a *different* high > > word! Notice? > > > > So trivial memory ordering is _not_ enough. > > > > So I think the code literally needs to be something like this > > > > #ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE > > > > static inline pte_t native_get_pte(pte_t *ptep) > > { > > pte_t pte; > > > > retry: > > pte.pte_low = ptep->pte_low; > > smp_rmb(); > > pte.pte_high = ptep->pte_high; > > smp_rmb(); > > if (unlikely(pte.pte_low != ptep->pte_low) > > goto retry; > > return pte; > > } > > > > > > I think this is still broken. Suppose that after reading pte_high > native_set_pte() is called again on another cpu, changing pte_low back > to the original value (but with a different pte_high). You now have > pte_low from second native_set_pte() but pte_high from the first > native_set_pte(). I think the idea was that for user pages we only use set_pte_present() which does the low=0 thing first. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org