From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 06/11] mm: support GUP-triggered unsharing via FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE (!hugetlb)
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 19:36:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wgnR6F9vbA0B474J80nYWGbtnHncqPiSiuPCGWf5kbfQA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wj+VpgJ3RfRQNxYS3xN9O01rwWnSBX7mztxFaE6BTLzFw@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 6:42 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> IOW, I think that this stupid (AND UNTESTED) patch should likely just
> fix David's test-case with the hugepage and splice thing..
Looking at that patch, the page lock is entirely pointless.
It existed because of that broken reuse_swap_page() that tried to
count page mappings etc, but once you get rid of that - like we got
rid of it for the regular pages - it's not even needed.
So as we hold the page table lock, and see a page_count() of 1, we
could be done without any page lock at all. So that whole
trylock/unlock is actually unnecessary.
That said, it's possibly woth re-using any swap cache pages at this
point, and that would want the page lock. So some complexity in this
area is likely worth it. Similar to how we did it in commit
f4c4a3f48480 ("mm: free idle swap cache page after COW") for regular
pages.
So that patch is not great, but I think it works as a guiding one.
And notice how *simple* it is. It doesn't require careful counting of
swap entries that depend on page locking.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-18 3:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 127+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-17 11:30 [PATCH v1 00/11] mm: COW fixes part 1: fix the COW security issue for THP and hugetlb David Hildenbrand
2021-12-17 11:30 ` [PATCH v1 01/11] seqlock: provide lockdep-free raw_seqcount_t variant David Hildenbrand
2021-12-17 17:02 ` Nadav Amit
2021-12-17 17:29 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-12-17 17:49 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-12-17 18:01 ` Nadav Amit
2021-12-17 21:28 ` Thomas Gleixner
2021-12-17 22:02 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-12-17 11:30 ` [PATCH v1 02/11] mm: thp: consolidate mapcount logic on THP split David Hildenbrand
2021-12-17 19:06 ` Yang Shi
2021-12-18 14:24 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-12-17 11:30 ` [PATCH v1 03/11] mm: simplify hugetlb and file-THP handling in __page_mapcount() David Hildenbrand
2021-12-17 17:16 ` Nadav Amit
2021-12-17 17:30 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-12-17 18:06 ` Mike Kravetz
2021-12-17 18:11 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-12-17 19:07 ` Yang Shi
2021-12-18 14:31 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-12-17 11:30 ` [PATCH v1 04/11] mm: thp: simlify total_mapcount() David Hildenbrand
2021-12-17 19:12 ` Yang Shi
2021-12-18 14:35 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-12-17 11:30 ` [PATCH v1 05/11] mm: thp: allow for reading the THP mapcount atomically via a raw_seqlock_t David Hildenbrand
2021-12-17 11:30 ` [PATCH v1 06/11] mm: support GUP-triggered unsharing via FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE (!hugetlb) David Hildenbrand
2021-12-17 19:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-17 19:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-17 20:17 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-12-17 20:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-17 20:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-17 20:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-17 20:42 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-12-17 20:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-18 22:52 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2021-12-18 23:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-17 20:47 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-17 20:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-17 21:17 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-12-17 21:04 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-12-18 0:50 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-17 21:15 ` Nadav Amit
2021-12-17 21:20 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-12-18 0:50 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-18 1:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-18 2:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-18 2:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-18 3:36 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2021-12-18 3:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-18 3:30 ` Nadav Amit
2021-12-18 3:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-18 18:42 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-18 21:48 ` Nadav Amit
2021-12-18 22:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-19 0:19 ` Nadav Amit
2021-12-19 0:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-19 6:02 ` Nadav Amit
2021-12-19 8:01 ` John Hubbard
2021-12-19 11:30 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-12-19 17:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-19 17:44 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-12-19 17:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-19 17:59 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-12-19 21:12 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-12-19 21:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-19 21:47 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-12-19 21:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-19 22:02 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-12-19 22:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-19 22:26 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-12-20 18:37 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-12-20 18:52 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-12-20 19:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-20 19:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-20 21:02 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-12-20 21:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-21 1:03 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-21 3:29 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-12-21 8:58 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-12-21 14:28 ` Jason Gunthorpe
[not found] ` <303f21d3-42b4-2f11-3f22-28f89f819080@redhat.com>
2021-12-21 23:54 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-21 17:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-21 17:40 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-12-21 18:00 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <dda021c8-69ec-c660-46be-793ae345a5bb@redhat.com>
2021-12-21 21:11 ` John Hubbard
2021-12-21 18:07 ` Jan Kara
2021-12-21 18:30 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <d23ede12-5df7-2f28-00fd-ea58d85ae400@redhat.com>
2021-12-21 18:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-21 21:16 ` John Hubbard
2021-12-21 19:07 ` Jason Gunthorpe
[not found] ` <3e0868e6-c714-1bf8-163f-389989bf5189@redhat.com>
[not found] ` <dfe1c8d5-6fac-9040-0272-6d77bafa6a16@redhat.com>
2021-12-22 12:41 ` Jan Kara
[not found] ` <4a28e8a0-2efa-8b5e-10b5-38f1fc143a98@redhat.com>
2021-12-22 14:42 ` Jan Kara
[not found] ` <505d3d0f-23ee-0eec-0571-8058b8eedb97@redhat.com>
2021-12-22 16:08 ` Jan Kara
2021-12-22 16:44 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-12-22 18:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-23 12:54 ` Jan Kara
2021-12-23 17:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-23 0:21 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-12-24 2:53 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-24 4:53 ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-01-04 0:33 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-21 23:59 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-12-22 12:44 ` Jan Kara
2021-12-17 20:45 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-12-17 20:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-17 20:55 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-12-17 21:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-17 21:47 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-12-17 21:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-17 22:29 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-12-17 22:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-17 23:29 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-12-17 23:53 ` Nadav Amit
2021-12-18 4:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-18 4:52 ` Nadav Amit
2021-12-18 5:03 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-12-18 5:23 ` Nadav Amit
2021-12-18 18:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-17 22:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-17 22:43 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-12-17 23:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-18 9:57 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-12-18 19:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-18 19:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-12-19 8:43 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-12-17 11:30 ` [PATCH v1 07/11] mm: gup: trigger unsharing via FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE when required (!hugetlb) David Hildenbrand
2021-12-17 11:30 ` [PATCH v1 08/11] mm: hugetlb: support GUP-triggered unsharing via FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE David Hildenbrand
2021-12-17 11:30 ` [PATCH v1 09/11] mm: gup: trigger unsharing via FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE when required (hugetlb) David Hildenbrand
2021-12-17 11:30 ` [PATCH v1 10/11] mm: thp: introduce and use page_trans_huge_anon_shared() David Hildenbrand
2021-12-17 11:30 ` [PATCH v1 11/11] selftests/vm: add tests for the known COW security issues David Hildenbrand
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