From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ot1-f71.google.com (mail-ot1-f71.google.com [209.85.210.71]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 333738E0001 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2018 08:18:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-ot1-f71.google.com with SMTP id c46-v6so745868otd.12 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2018 05:18:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com. [148.163.158.5]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d88-v6si399367otb.150.2018.09.13.05.18.45 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 13 Sep 2018 05:18:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pps.filterd (m0098414.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.22/8.16.0.22) with SMTP id w8DCIhwM110585 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2018 08:18:45 -0400 Received: from e06smtp07.uk.ibm.com (e06smtp07.uk.ibm.com [195.75.94.103]) by mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 2mfnexx20r-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2018 08:18:44 -0400 Received: from localhost by e06smtp07.uk.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Thu, 13 Sep 2018 13:18:32 +0100 Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 14:18:27 +0200 From: Martin Schwidefsky Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 01/11] asm-generic/tlb: Provide a comment In-Reply-To: <20180913105738.GW24124@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <20180913092110.817204997@infradead.org> <20180913092811.894806629@infradead.org> <20180913123014.0d9321b8@mschwideX1> <20180913105738.GW24124@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20180913141827.1776985e@mschwideX1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: will.deacon@arm.com, aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, npiggin@gmail.com, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux@armlinux.org.uk, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 12:57:38 +0200 Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 12:30:14PM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > > > > + * The mmu_gather data structure is used by the mm code to implement the > > > + * correct and efficient ordering of freeing pages and TLB invalidations. > > > + * > > > + * This correct ordering is: > > > + * > > > + * 1) unhook page > > > + * 2) TLB invalidate page > > > + * 3) free page > > > + * > > > + * That is, we must never free a page before we have ensured there are no live > > > + * translations left to it. Otherwise it might be possible to observe (or > > > + * worse, change) the page content after it has been reused. > > > + * > > > > This first comment already includes the reason why s390 is probably better off > > with its own mmu-gather implementation. It depends on the situation if we have > > > > 1) unhook the page and do a TLB flush at the same time > > 2) free page > > > > or > > > > 1) unhook page > > 2) free page > > 3) final TLB flush of the whole mm > > that's the fullmm case, right? That includes the fullmm case but we use it for e.g. munmap of a single-threaded program as well. > > A variant of the second order we had in the past is to do the mm TLB flush first, > > then the unhooks and frees of the individual pages. The are some tricky corners > > switching between the two variants, see finish_arch_post_lock_switch. > > > > The point is: we *never* have the order 1) unhook, 2) TLB invalidate, 3) free. > > If there is concurrency due to a multi-threaded application we have to do the > > unhook of the page-table entry and the TLB flush with a single instruction. > > You can still get the thing you want if for !fullmm you have a no-op > tlb_flush() implementation, assuming your arch page-table frobbing thing > has the required TLB flush in. We have a non-empty tlb_flush_mmu_tlbonly to do a full-mm flush for two cases 1) batches of page-table entries for single-threaded programs 2) flushing of the pages used for the page-table structure itself In fact only the page-table pages are added to the mmu_gather batch, the target page of the virtual mapping is always freed immediately. > Note that that's not utterly unlike how the PowerPC/Sparc hash things > work, they clear and invalidate entries different from others and don't > use the mmu_gather tlb-flush. We may get something working with a common code mmu_gather, but I fear the day someone makes a "minor" change to that subtly break s390. The debugging of TLB related problems is just horrible.. -- blue skies, Martin. "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.