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Message-ID: <20190606140239.GA21778@ziepe.ca>
Date:   Thu, 6 Jun 2019 11:02:39 -0300
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
To:     rcampbell@...dia.com
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] mm/hmm: Update HMM documentation

On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 04:29:38PM -0700, rcampbell@...dia.com wrote:
> From: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>
> 
> Update the HMM documentation to reflect the latest API and make a few minor
> wording changes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>
> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
> Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>
> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
> Cc: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@...il.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
>  Documentation/vm/hmm.rst | 139 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
>  1 file changed, 73 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)

Okay, lets start picking up hmm patches in to the new shared hmm.git,
as promised I will take responsibility to send these to Linus. The
tree is here:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma.git/log/?h=hmm

This looks fine to me with one minor comment:

> diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hmm.rst b/Documentation/vm/hmm.rst
> index ec1efa32af3c..7c1e929931a0 100644
> +++ b/Documentation/vm/hmm.rst
>  
> @@ -151,21 +151,27 @@ registration of an hmm_mirror struct::
>  
>   int hmm_mirror_register(struct hmm_mirror *mirror,
>                           struct mm_struct *mm);
> - int hmm_mirror_register_locked(struct hmm_mirror *mirror,
> -                                struct mm_struct *mm);
>  
> -
> -The locked variant is to be used when the driver is already holding mmap_sem
> -of the mm in write mode. The mirror struct has a set of callbacks that are used
> +The mirror struct has a set of callbacks that are used
>  to propagate CPU page tables::
>  
>   struct hmm_mirror_ops {
> +     /* release() - release hmm_mirror
> +      *
> +      * @mirror: pointer to struct hmm_mirror
> +      *
> +      * This is called when the mm_struct is being released.
> +      * The callback should make sure no references to the mirror occur
> +      * after the callback returns.
> +      */

This is not quite accurate (at least, as the other series I sent
intends), the struct hmm_mirror is valid up until
hmm_mirror_unregister() is called - specifically it remains valid
after the release() callback.

I will revise it (and the hmm.h comment it came from) to read the
below. Please let me know if you'd like something else:

	/* release() - release hmm_mirror
	 *
	 * @mirror: pointer to struct hmm_mirror
	 *
	 * This is called when the mm_struct is being released.  The callback
	 * must ensure that all access to any pages obtained from this mirror
	 * is halted before the callback returns. All future access should
	 * fault.
	 */

The key task for release is to fence off all device access to any
related pages as the mm is about to recycle them and the device must
not cause a use-after-free.

I applied it to hmm.git

Thanks,
Jason

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