linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 hmm 02/11] mm/mmu_notifiers: do not speculatively allocate a mmu_notifier

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Message-ID: <d2d8d6a8-7ac5-8f04-c11a-61140fccc5e1@nvidia.com>
Date:   Wed, 14 Aug 2019 13:32:13 -0700
From:   Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>
CC:     Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        "Kuehling, Felix" <Felix.Kuehling@....com>,
        "Alex Deucher" <alexander.deucher@....com>,
        Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
        "David (ChunMing) Zhou" <David1.Zhou@....com>,
        Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@....com>,
        <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>, <amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        <iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        <intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Gavin Shan <shangw@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Andrea Righi <andrea@...terlinux.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 hmm 02/11] mm/mmu_notifiers: do not speculatively
 allocate a mmu_notifier_mm


On 8/6/19 4:15 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>
> 
> A prior commit e0f3c3f78da2 ("mm/mmu_notifier: init notifier if necessary")
> made an attempt at doing this, but had to be reverted as calling
> the GFP_KERNEL allocator under the i_mmap_mutex causes deadlock, see
> commit 35cfa2b0b491 ("mm/mmu_notifier: allocate mmu_notifier in advance").
> 
> However, we can avoid that problem by doing the allocation only under
> the mmap_sem, which is already happening.
> 
> Since all writers to mm->mmu_notifier_mm hold the write side of the
> mmap_sem reading it under that sem is deterministic and we can use that to
> decide if the allocation path is required, without speculation.
> 
> The actual update to mmu_notifier_mm must still be done under the
> mm_take_all_locks() to ensure read-side coherency.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>

Looks good to me.
Reviewed-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>