linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 07/12] mm/gup: track FOLL

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Message-ID: <20200205113541.mi4kys5erldwxiog@box>
Date:   Wed, 5 Feb 2020 14:35:41 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:     John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
        Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 07/12] mm/gup: track FOLL_PIN pages

On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 03:41:12PM -0800, John Hubbard wrote:
> Add tracking of pages that were pinned via FOLL_PIN. This tracking is
> implemented via overloading of page->_refcount: pins are added by
> adding GUP_PIN_COUNTING_BIAS (1024) to the refcount. This provides a
> fuzzy indication of pinning, and it can have false positives (and that's
> OK). Please see the pre-existing
> Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst for details.
> 
> As mentioned in pin_user_pages.rst, callers who effectively set FOLL_PIN
> (typically via pin_user_pages*()) are required to ultimately free such
> pages via unpin_user_page().
> 
> Please also note the limitation, discussed in pin_user_pages.rst under
> the "TODO: for 1GB and larger huge pages" section. (That limitation will
> be removed in a following patch.)
> 
> The effect of a FOLL_PIN flag is similar to that of FOLL_GET, and may be
> thought of as "FOLL_GET for DIO and/or RDMA use".
> 
> Pages that have been pinned via FOLL_PIN are identifiable via a
> new function call:
> 
>    bool page_maybe_dma_pinned(struct page *page);
> 
> What to do in response to encountering such a page, is left to later
> patchsets. There is discussion about this in [1], [2], [3], and [4].
> 
> This also changes a BUG_ON(), to a WARN_ON(), in follow_page_mask().
> 
> [1] Some slow progress on get_user_pages() (Apr 2, 2019):
>     https://lwn.net/Articles/784574/
> [2] DMA and get_user_pages() (LPC: Dec 12, 2018):
>     https://lwn.net/Articles/774411/
> [3] The trouble with get_user_pages() (Apr 30, 2018):
>     https://lwn.net/Articles/753027/
> [4] LWN kernel index: get_user_pages():
>     https://lwn.net/Kernel/Index/#Memory_management-get_user_pages
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
> Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
> Suggested-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>
> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>

Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov