linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] mm: introduce put_user

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Date:   Fri, 5 Oct 2018 12:49:06 -0700
From:   John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>, <john.hubbard@...il.com>
CC:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Christopher Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-rdma <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Jerome Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] mm: introduce put_user_page[s](), placeholder
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On 10/5/18 8:17 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 09:02:24PM -0700, john.hubbard@...il.com wrote:
>> From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
>>
>> Introduces put_user_page(), which simply calls put_page().
>> This provides a way to update all get_user_pages*() callers,
>> so that they call put_user_page(), instead of put_page().
>>
>> Also introduces put_user_pages(), and a few dirty/locked variations,
>> as a replacement for release_pages(), for the same reasons.
>> These may be used for subsequent performance improvements,
>> via batching of pages to be released.
>>
>> This prepares for eventually fixing the problem described
>> in [1], and is following a plan listed in [2], [3], [4].
>>
>> [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/753027/ : "The Trouble with get_user_pages()"
>>
>> [2] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180709080554.21931-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com
>>     Proposed steps for fixing get_user_pages() + DMA problems.
>>
>> [3]https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180710082100.mkdwngdv5kkrcz6n@quack2.suse.cz
>>     Bounce buffers (otherwise [2] is not really viable).
>>
>> [4] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181003162115.GG24030@quack2.suse.cz
>>     Follow-up discussions.
>>
[...]
>>  
>> +/* Placeholder version, until all get_user_pages*() callers are updated. */
>> +static inline void put_user_page(struct page *page)
>> +{
>> +	put_page(page);
>> +}
>> +
>> +/* For get_user_pages*()-pinned pages, use these variants instead of
>> + * release_pages():
>> + */
>> +static inline void put_user_pages_dirty(struct page **pages,
>> +					unsigned long npages)
>> +{
>> +	while (npages) {
>> +		set_page_dirty(pages[npages]);
>> +		put_user_page(pages[npages]);
>> +		--npages;
>> +	}
>> +}
> 
> Shouldn't these do the !PageDirty(page) thing?
> 

Well, not yet. This is the "placeholder" patch, in which I planned to keep
the behavior the same, while I go to all the get_user_pages call sites and change 
put_page() and release_pages() over to use these new routines.

After the call sites are changed, then these routines will be updated to do more.
[2], above has slightly more detail about that.


thanks,
-- 
John Hubbard
NVIDIA