From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06784C47088 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2022 16:29:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S234178AbiKVQ3Y (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2022 11:29:24 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:34718 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S233399AbiKVQ3U (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2022 11:29:20 -0500 Received: from smtp-out2.suse.de (smtp-out2.suse.de [IPv6:2001:67c:2178:6::1d]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3FE802F037; Tue, 22 Nov 2022 08:29:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de (imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de [192.168.254.74]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature ECDSA (P-521) server-digest SHA512) (No client certificate requested) by smtp-out2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DF6E31F85D; Tue, 22 Nov 2022 16:29:17 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=suse.cz; s=susede2_rsa; t=1669134557; h=from:from:reply-to:date:date:message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc: mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=i4/RJcDx5W5MDWxatsZO6Jcd+cYSccjZheprFRMkSho=; b=X60dEluFtp4cLi1JihULzmkzaAA9/k4ioOG0n7SnZjElr35p11yH8f4Bssb8T6zKnqjhw2 BDEDmmllzzQfnE37AD6LBoQboXkTfOwklpWC3spbAYDRkpU5ZxaFtM8EabO2lg17w4JmPI FG84E0lRMDGpjDhIqVm+gTJfS8SspQg= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=ed25519-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=suse.cz; s=susede2_ed25519; t=1669134557; h=from:from:reply-to:date:date:message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc: mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=i4/RJcDx5W5MDWxatsZO6Jcd+cYSccjZheprFRMkSho=; b=tytwOJur3SCnNybSVppd+YvRZnEtonPJqvXEuE1IgRt5Krn2SkTFWXTND8eoiVlqfQBoI0 i1KrLu2gVmy/a2Bg== Received: from imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de (imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de [192.168.254.74]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature ECDSA (P-521) server-digest SHA512) (No client certificate requested) by imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4E82B13AA1; Tue, 22 Nov 2022 16:29:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dovecot-director2.suse.de ([192.168.254.65]) by imap2.suse-dmz.suse.de with ESMTPSA id h9BSEt34fGMmOQAAMHmgww (envelope-from ); Tue, 22 Nov 2022 16:29:17 +0000 Message-ID: <8bb93984-a2f4-2029-7cec-bea659e77b6c@suse.cz> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 17:29:16 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.5.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH mm-unstable v1 09/20] mm/gup: reliable R/O long-term pinning in COW mappings Content-Language: en-US To: David Hildenbrand , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: x86@kernel.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-um@lists.infradead.org, etnaviv@lists.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Jason Gunthorpe , John Hubbard , Peter Xu , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Andrea Arcangeli , Hugh Dickins , Nadav Amit , Matthew Wilcox , Mike Kravetz , Muchun Song , Shuah Khan , Lucas Stach , David Airlie , Oded Gabbay , Arnd Bergmann , Christoph Hellwig , Alex Williamson References: <20221116102659.70287-1-david@redhat.com> <20221116102659.70287-10-david@redhat.com> From: Vlastimil Babka In-Reply-To: <20221116102659.70287-10-david@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On 11/16/22 11:26, David Hildenbrand wrote: > We already support reliable R/O pinning of anonymous memory. However, > assume we end up pinning (R/O long-term) a pagecache page or the shared > zeropage inside a writable private ("COW") mapping. The next write access > will trigger a write-fault and replace the pinned page by an exclusive > anonymous page in the process page tables to break COW: the pinned page no > longer corresponds to the page mapped into the process' page table. > > Now that FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE can break COW on anything mapped into a > COW mapping, let's properly break COW first before R/O long-term > pinning something that's not an exclusive anon page inside a COW > mapping. FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE will break COW and map an exclusive anon page > instead that can get pinned safely. > > With this change, we can stop using FOLL_FORCE|FOLL_WRITE for reliable > R/O long-term pinning in COW mappings. > > With this change, the new R/O long-term pinning tests for non-anonymous > memory succeed: > # [RUN] R/O longterm GUP pin ... with shared zeropage > ok 151 Longterm R/O pin is reliable > # [RUN] R/O longterm GUP pin ... with memfd > ok 152 Longterm R/O pin is reliable > # [RUN] R/O longterm GUP pin ... with tmpfile > ok 153 Longterm R/O pin is reliable > # [RUN] R/O longterm GUP pin ... with huge zeropage > ok 154 Longterm R/O pin is reliable > # [RUN] R/O longterm GUP pin ... with memfd hugetlb (2048 kB) > ok 155 Longterm R/O pin is reliable > # [RUN] R/O longterm GUP pin ... with memfd hugetlb (1048576 kB) > ok 156 Longterm R/O pin is reliable > # [RUN] R/O longterm GUP-fast pin ... with shared zeropage > ok 157 Longterm R/O pin is reliable > # [RUN] R/O longterm GUP-fast pin ... with memfd > ok 158 Longterm R/O pin is reliable > # [RUN] R/O longterm GUP-fast pin ... with tmpfile > ok 159 Longterm R/O pin is reliable > # [RUN] R/O longterm GUP-fast pin ... with huge zeropage > ok 160 Longterm R/O pin is reliable > # [RUN] R/O longterm GUP-fast pin ... with memfd hugetlb (2048 kB) > ok 161 Longterm R/O pin is reliable > # [RUN] R/O longterm GUP-fast pin ... with memfd hugetlb (1048576 kB) > ok 162 Longterm R/O pin is reliable > > Note 1: We don't care about short-term R/O-pinning, because they have > snapshot semantics: they are not supposed to observe modifications that > happen after pinning. > > As one example, assume we start direct I/O to read from a page and store > page content into a file: modifications to page content after starting > direct I/O are not guaranteed to end up in the file. So even if we'd pin > the shared zeropage, the end result would be as expected -- getting zeroes > stored to the file. > > Note 2: For shared mappings we'll now always fallback to the slow path to > lookup the VMA when R/O long-term pining. While that's the necessary price > we have to pay right now, it's actually not that bad in practice: most > FOLL_LONGTERM users already specify FOLL_WRITE, for example, along with > FOLL_FORCE because they tried dealing with COW mappings correctly ... > > Note 3: For users that use FOLL_LONGTERM right now without FOLL_WRITE, > such as VFIO, we'd now no longer pin the shared zeropage. Instead, we'd > populate exclusive anon pages that we can pin. There was a concern that > this could affect the memlock limit of existing setups. > > For example, a VM running with VFIO could run into the memlock limit and > fail to run. However, we essentially had the same behavior already in > commit 17839856fd58 ("gup: document and work around "COW can break either > way" issue") which got merged into some enterprise distros, and there were > not any such complaints. So most probably, we're fine. > > Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka