linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 06/11] mm: support GUP-triggered unsharing via FAULT_FLAG

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <CAHk-=wgnR6F9vbA0B474J80nYWGbtnHncqPiSiuPCGWf5kbfQA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 17 Dec 2021 19:36:47 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>
Cc:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>,
        Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
        Donald Dutile <ddutile@...hat.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK" 
        <linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 06/11] mm: support GUP-triggered unsharing via
 FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE (!hugetlb)

On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 6:42 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> IOW, I think that this stupid (AND UNTESTED) patch should likely just
> fix David's test-case with the hugepage and splice thing..

Looking at that patch, the page lock is entirely pointless.

It existed because of that broken reuse_swap_page() that tried to
count page mappings etc, but once you get rid of that - like we got
rid of it for the regular pages - it's not even needed.

So as we hold the page table lock, and see a page_count() of 1, we
could be done without any page lock at all. So that whole
trylock/unlock is actually unnecessary.

That said, it's possibly woth re-using any swap cache pages at this
point, and that would want the page lock. So some complexity in this
area is likely worth it. Similar to how we did it in commit
f4c4a3f48480 ("mm: free idle swap cache page after COW") for regular
pages.

So that patch is not great, but I think it works as a guiding one.

And notice how *simple* it is. It doesn't require careful counting of
swap entries that depend on page locking.

                Linus