From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751502AbeECSnI (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2018 14:43:08 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:39166 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751342AbeECSnF (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2018 14:43:05 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 May 2018 21:43:01 +0300 From: Leon Romanovsky To: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Lidong Chen , dledford@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, qing.huang@oracle.com, artemyko@mellanox.com, dan.j.williams@intel.com, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, adido@mellanox.com, galsha@mellanox.com, aviadye@mellanox.com, Lidong Chen Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/umem: use tgid instead of pid in ib_umem structure Message-ID: <20180503184301.GD4473@mtr-leonro.local> References: <1525356274-736-1-git-send-email-lidongchen@tencent.com> <20180503153310.GA9738@ziepe.ca> <20180503181235.GB4473@mtr-leonro.local> <20180503182656.GB14956@ziepe.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="hHWLQfXTYDoKhP50" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180503182656.GB14956@ziepe.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.5 (2018-04-13) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --hHWLQfXTYDoKhP50 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 12:26:56PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 09:12:35PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 09:33:10AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 10:04:34PM +0800, Lidong Chen wrote: > > > > The userspace may invoke ibv_reg_mr and ibv_dereg_mr by different threads. > > > > If when ibv_dereg_mr invoke and the thread which invoked ibv_reg_mr has > > > > exited, get_pid_task will return NULL, ib_umem_release does not decrease > > > > mm->pinned_vm. This patch fixes it by use tgid. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Lidong Chen > > > > drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c | 12 ++++++------ > > > > include/rdma/ib_umem.h | 2 +- > > > > 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) > > > > > > Why are we even using a struct pid for this? Does anyone know? > > > > > > > Can it be related to "fork" support? > > Not sure.. > > Ideally we want to hold the struct mm, but we can't hold it long > term, so pid is a surrogate for that. > > > > I'm surprised that struct task isn't held in the struct ib_umem.. > > > > > > > I think that this code can be removed and all accesses to mm_struct can > > be done with "current->mm". > > That sounds wrong for fork support, as the mm used in destroy MUST > exactly match the mm used in create.. > > How does this accounting work in fork anyhow? We are not supporting fork, so this is why I proposed to remove it. Thanks > > Jason --hHWLQfXTYDoKhP50 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEkhr/r4Op1/04yqaB5GN7iDZyWKcFAlrrWDUACgkQ5GN7iDZy WKf4sw//c7zy4xf0dcdK6BLTm21txkqjxdQ15RBej3Il0DRP0WrALvXQrSwdx+zK 0BdcLcY6jCnsLEeDLbttp6H2uPgx6vXH64B7rJjKBWquw5ry0dPs5fEFCbNljSyK wMHzstFh5E+SU/Nd6Y3kBFyyFVoje8bpry4sQR4+8dv6+ynEs0hM0Biw2d9o2yIi fPIdxJLDJr0p6BouW7QfvV1QYdLYWgDu4o5MUk/FLIt70Fb20cldOrsz8RXsBXss EOPl/ZFbfQMWj1srqd+TWFn+ZcmkMwsMioHjceSdy2Gl0HmuRrZBidxYdO/xVr9H 7hiRKHVsDK1l5AggI22DqnE4JO0KpFWXatzgCiOlpk/mof7fVmaOvY9dHNDZIEQO io8Wn9VufL9afs2+2q/DvY5sloWDBFExVdYG8bh4C6t0naw30/l9fxcK0w1fZedL XvtDHQJxgxgqrle36VQrN2lJQENSMUCAHK+HbzeKflLDlM1YfUvPWAu/2EW9OISk InZeKzvWXgtjDu722wUgQ/d7QYiQJnCxqWciknlAi7hOBN++FqLlBiFAS4Sho+gx iFId3QACZnrmBc1goyEipJRGMBVNlIe5a6XPVASIHqcZ9mbxofxlKiYBeLA+3bjU UZQWztUzL9udAPUhpMGnxaLFx+q41r1NzqXku0qUonCaFjrVG0U= =ztQs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hHWLQfXTYDoKhP50--