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Date:	Tue, 16 Sep 2014 22:51:10 +0200
From:	Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
To:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:	Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@...gle.com>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@...il.com>,
	Paul Cassella <cassella@...y.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Peter Feiner <pfeiner@...gle.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: Faults which trigger IO release the mmap_sem

2014-09-15 13:11-0700, Andres Lagar-Cavilla:
> +int kvm_get_user_page_retry(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,

The suffix '_retry' is not best suited for this.
On first reading, I imagined we will be retrying something from before,
possibly calling it in a loop, but we are actually doing the first and
last try in one call.

Hard to find something that conveys our lock-dropping mechanic,
'_polite' is my best candidate at the moment.

> +	int flags = FOLL_TOUCH | FOLL_HWPOISON |

(FOLL_HWPOISON wasn't used before, but it's harmless.)

2014-09-16 15:51+0200, Paolo Bonzini:
> Il 15/09/2014 22:11, Andres Lagar-Cavilla ha scritto:
> > @@ -1177,9 +1210,15 @@ static int hva_to_pfn_slow(unsigned long addr, bool *async, bool write_fault,
> >  		npages = get_user_page_nowait(current, current->mm,
> >  					      addr, write_fault, page);
> >  		up_read(&current->mm->mmap_sem);
> > -	} else
> > -		npages = get_user_pages_fast(addr, 1, write_fault,
> > -					     page);
> > +	} else {
> > +		/*
> > +		 * By now we have tried gup_fast, and possible async_pf, and we
                                        ^
(If we really tried get_user_pages_fast, we wouldn't be here, so I'd
 prepend two underscores here as well.)

> > +		 * are certainly not atomic. Time to retry the gup, allowing
> > +		 * mmap semaphore to be relinquished in the case of IO.
> > +		 */
> > +		npages = kvm_get_user_page_retry(current, current->mm, addr,
> > +						 write_fault, page);
> 
> This is a separate logical change.  Was this:
> 
> 	down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> 	npages = get_user_pages(NULL, mm, addr, 1, 1, 0, NULL, NULL);
> 	up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> 
> the intention rather than get_user_pages_fast?

I believe so as well.

(Looking at get_user_pages_fast and __get_user_pages_fast made my
 abstraction detector very sad.)

> I think a first patch should introduce kvm_get_user_page_retry ("Retry a
> fault after a gup with FOLL_NOWAIT.") and the second would add
> FOLL_TRIED ("This properly relinquishes mmap semaphore if the
> filemap/swap has to wait on page lock (and retries the gup to completion
> after that").

Not sure if that would help to understand the goal ...

> Apart from this, the patch looks good.  The mm/ parts are minimal, so I
> think it's best to merge it through the KVM tree with someone's Acked-by.

I would prefer to have the last hunk in a separate patch, but still,

Acked-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
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