linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] mm,drm/ttm: Block fast GUP to TTM huge pages

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Message-ID: <1ed48d99-1cd9-d87b-41dd-4169afc77f70@shipmail.org>
Date:   Thu, 25 Mar 2021 19:13:33 +0100
From:   Thomas Hellström (Intel) 
        <thomas_os@...pmail.org>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
Cc:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        "Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        "dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org" <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        "christian.koenig@....com" <christian.koenig@....com>,
        "airlied@...ux.ie" <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] mm,drm/ttm: Block fast GUP to TTM huge pages


On 3/25/21 6:55 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 06:51:26PM +0100, Thomas Hellström (Intel) wrote:
>> On 3/24/21 9:25 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
>>> On 3/24/21 1:22 PM, Thomas Hellström (Intel) wrote:
>>>>> We also have not been careful at *all* about how _PAGE_BIT_SOFTW* are
>>>>> used.  It's quite possible we can encode another use even in the
>>>>> existing bits.
>>>>>
>>>>> Personally, I'd just try:
>>>>>
>>>>> #define _PAGE_BIT_SOFTW5        57      /* available for programmer */
>>>>>
>>>> OK, I'll follow your advise here. FWIW I grepped for SW1 and it seems
>>>> used in a selftest, but only for PTEs AFAICT.
>>>>
>>>> Oh, and we don't care about 32-bit much anymore?
>>> On x86, we have 64-bit PTEs when running 32-bit kernels if PAE is
>>> enabled.  IOW, we can handle the majority of 32-bit CPUs out there.
>>>
>>> But, yeah, we don't care about 32-bit. :)
>> Hmm,
>>
>> Actually it makes some sense to use SW1, to make it end up in the same dword
>> as the PSE bit, as from what I can tell, reading of a 64-bit pmd_t on 32-bit
>> PAE is not atomic, so in theory a huge pmd could be modified while reading
>> the pmd_t making the dwords inconsistent.... How does that work with fast
>> gup anyway?
> It loops to get an atomic 64 bit value if the arch can't provide an
> atomic 64 bit load

Hmm, ok, I see a READ_ONCE() in gup_pmd_range(), and then the resulting 
pmd is dereferenced either in try_grab_compound_head() or 
__gup_device_huge(), before the pmd is compared to the value the pointer 
is currently pointing to. Couldn't those dereferences be on invalid 
pointers?

/Thomas

>
> Jason