Re: [PATCH v2 hmm 00/11] Various revisions from a locking/code review

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>]

On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 03:44:27PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
> 
> For hmm.git:
> 
> This patch series arised out of discussions with Jerome when looking at the
> ODP changes, particularly informed by use after free races we have already
> found and fixed in the ODP code (thanks to syzkaller) working with mmu
> notifiers, and the discussion with Ralph on how to resolve the lifetime model.
> 
> Overall this brings in a simplified locking scheme and easy to explain
> lifetime model:
> 
>  If a hmm_range is valid, then the hmm is valid, if a hmm is valid then the mm
>  is allocated memory.
> 
>  If the mm needs to still be alive (ie to lock the mmap_sem, find a vma, etc)
>  then the mmget must be obtained via mmget_not_zero().
> 
> Locking of mm->hmm is shifted to use the mmap_sem consistently for all
> read/write and unlocked accesses are removed.
> 
> The use unlocked reads on 'hmm->dead' are also eliminated in favour of using
> standard mmget() locking to prevent the mm from being released. Many of the
> debugging checks of !range->hmm and !hmm->mm are dropped in favour of poison -
> which is much clearer as to the lifetime intent.
> 
> The trailing patches are just some random cleanups I noticed when reviewing
> this code.
> 
> This v2 incorporates alot of the good off list changes & feedback Jerome had,
> and all the on-list comments too. However, now that we have the shared git I
> have kept the one line change to nouveau_svm.c rather than the compat
> funtions.
> 
> I believe we can resolve this merge in the DRM tree now and keep the core
> mm/hmm.c clean. DRM maintainers, please correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> It is on top of hmm.git, and I have a git tree of this series to ease testing
> here:
> 
> https://github.com/jgunthorpe/linux/tree/hmm
> 
> There are still some open locking issues, as I think this remains unaddressed:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190527195829.GB18019@mellanox.com/
> 
> I'm looking for some more acks, reviews and tests so this can move ahead to
> hmm.git.

AMD Folks, this is looking pretty good now, can you please give at
least a Tested-by for the new driver code using this that I see in
linux-next?

Thanks,
Jason