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Miller" , sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch RFC 00/15] mm/highmem: Provide a preemptible variant of kmap_atomic & friends In-Reply-To: <20200920082353.GG438822@phenom.ffwll.local> References: <20200919091751.011116649@linutronix.de> <87pn6hc6g1.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> <20200920082353.GG438822@phenom.ffwll.local> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 19:24:49 +0200 Message-ID: <87h7rscqe6.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: On Sun, Sep 20 2020 at 10:23, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 08:23:26AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 19 2020 at 12:37, Daniel Vetter wrote: >> > On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 12:35 PM Daniel Vetter wrote: >> >> I think it should be the case, but I want to double check: Will >> >> copy_*_user be allowed within a kmap_temporary section? This would >> >> allow us to ditch an absolute pile of slowpaths. >> > >> > (coffee just kicked in) copy_*_user is ofc allowed, but if you hit a >> > page fault you get a short read/write. This looks like it would remove >> > the need to handle these in a slowpath, since page faults can now be >> > served in this new kmap_temporary sections. But this sounds too good >> > to be true, so I'm wondering what I'm missing. >> >> In principle we could allow pagefaults, but not with the currently >> proposed interface which can be called from any context. Obviously if >> called from atomic context it can't handle user page faults. > > Yeah that's clear, but does the implemention need to disable pagefaults > unconditionally? As I wrote in the other reply it's not required and the final interface will neither disable preemption nor pagefaults (except for the atomic wrapper around it). Thanks, tglx