From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Roland Dreier <roland-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>,
"Michael R. Hines"
<mrhines-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>,
Sean Hefty <sean.hefty-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>,
Hal Rosenstock
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Yishai Hadas <yishaih-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>,
Christoph Lameter <cl-vYTEC60ixJUAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>,
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qemu-devel-qX2TKyscuCcdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rdma: don't make pages writeable if not requiested
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:41:35 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130321184135.GA8044@obsidianresearch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130321181633.GC4366-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 08:16:33PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> This is the one I find redundant. Since the write will be done by
> the adaptor under direct control by the application, why does it
> make sense to declare this beforehand? If you don't want to allow
> local write access to memory, just do not post any receive WRs with
> this address. If you posted and regret it, reset the QP to cancel.
This is to support your COW scenario - the app declares before hand to
the kernel that it will write to the memory and the kernel ensures
pages are dedicated to the app at registration time. Or the app says
it will only read and the kernel could leave them shared.
The adaptor enforces the access control to prevent a naughty app from
writing to shared memory - think about mmap'ing libc.so and then using
RDMA to write to the shared pages. It is necessary to ensure that is
impossible.
Jason
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-21 6:18 [PATCH] rdma: don't make pages writeable if not requiested Michael S. Tsirkin
[not found] ` <20130321061838.GA28319-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2013-03-21 6:55 ` Roland Dreier
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2013-03-21 7:03 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
[not found] ` <20130321070357.GD28328-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2013-03-21 7:15 ` Roland Dreier
[not found] ` <CAG4TOxPkhOhGmzeA1K4a0Zw8HxS-QkOr-PCx7mJgA+KkuH3ZiQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2013-03-21 8:51 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
[not found] ` <20130321085107.GE28328-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2013-03-21 9:13 ` Roland Dreier
[not found] ` <CAL1RGDVnkLZU2Vge4o3BwDxnAfGv7TQRMqE6ha3MUt39CVp5NQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2013-03-21 9:39 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
[not found] ` <20130321093946.GG28328-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2013-03-21 17:11 ` Jason Gunthorpe
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2013-03-21 17:15 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
[not found] ` <20130321171525.GE2994-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2013-03-21 17:21 ` Jason Gunthorpe
[not found] ` <20130321172150.GA3118-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2013-03-21 17:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
[not found] ` <20130321174237.GA4060-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2013-03-21 17:57 ` Jason Gunthorpe
[not found] ` <20130321175732.GA3263-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2013-03-21 18:03 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-03-21 18:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
[not found] ` <20130321181633.GC4366-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2013-03-21 18:41 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
[not found] ` <20130321184135.GA8044-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2013-03-21 19:15 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
[not found] ` <20130321191541.GB5272-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2013-03-21 20:09 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2013-03-21 9:32 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
[not found] ` <20130321093230.GF28328-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2013-03-21 11:30 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-03-21 12:23 ` Michael R. Hines
2013-03-21 12:32 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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