linux-kernel - Re: [OMPI devel] [PATCH v5 0/4] vm: add a syscall to map a process memory into a pipe

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Date:   Wed, 28 Feb 2018 23:12:03 +0000
From:   "Atchley, Scott" <atchleyes@...l.gov>
To:     Open MPI Developers <devel@...ts.open-mpi.org>
CC:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-api@...r.kernel.org" <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        "criu@...nvz.org" <criu@...nvz.org>,
        "gdb@...rceware.org" <gdb@...rceware.org>,
        "rr-dev@...illa.org" <rr-dev@...illa.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andrei Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>
Subject: Re: [OMPI devel] [PATCH v5 0/4] vm: add a syscall to map a process
 memory into a pipe

> On Feb 28, 2018, at 2:12 AM, Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...tuozzo.com> wrote:
> 
> On 02/27/2018 05:18 AM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 12:02:25PM +0300, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
>>> On 02/21/2018 03:44 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>>> On Tue,  9 Jan 2018 08:30:49 +0200 Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> This patches introduces new process_vmsplice system call that combines
>>>>> functionality of process_vm_read and vmsplice.
>>>> 
>>>> All seems fairly strightforward.  The big question is: do we know that
>>>> people will actually use this, and get sufficient value from it to
>>>> justify its addition?
>>> 
>>> Yes, that's what bothers us a lot too :) I've tried to start with finding out if anyone 
>>> used the sys_read/write_process_vm() calls, but failed :( Does anybody know how popular
>>> these syscalls are?
>> 
>> Well, process_vm_readv itself is quite popular, it's used by debuggers nowadays,
>> see e.g.
>> $ strace -qq -esignal=none -eprocess_vm_readv strace -qq -o/dev/null cat /dev/null
> 
> I see. Well, yes, this use-case will not benefit much from remote splice. How about more
> interactive debug by, say, gdb? It may attach, then splice all the memory, then analyze
> the victim code/data w/o copying it to its address space?
> 
> -- Pavel

I may be completely off base, but could a FUSE daemon use this to read memory from the client and dump it to a file descriptor without copying the data into the kernel?