linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: soft_dirty: userfaultfd: introduce wrprotect_tlb_flush

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wh1a+Hw4KhT=CokZ=w_XLadOr=bTKBgqX2bhG8ez7KgxQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 7 Jan 2021 12:25:52 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
Cc:     Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
        Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
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        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
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        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: soft_dirty: userfaultfd: introduce wrprotect_tlb_flush_pending

On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 12:17 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> I still think the real fix is "Don't do that then", and just take the
> write lock.

The alternative, of course, is to just make sure the page table flush
is done inside the page table lock (and then we make COW do the copy
inside of it).

But this whole "we know UFFD breaks all rules, we'll add even more
crap to it" approach is horrendous.

               Linus