linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 20/21] PCI/P2PDMA: Introduce pci_mmap

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Message-ID: <99242789-66a6-bbd2-b56a-e47891f4522e@deltatee.com>
Date:   Wed, 29 Jun 2022 10:00:09 -0600
From:   Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Stephen Bates <sbates@...thlin.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Don Dutile <ddutile@...hat.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
        Minturn Dave B <dave.b.minturn@...el.com>,
        Jason Ekstrand <jason@...kstrand.net>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Xiong Jianxin <jianxin.xiong@...el.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>,
        Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
        Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>,
        Martin Oliveira <martin.oliveira@...eticom.com>,
        Chaitanya Kulkarni <ckulkarnilinux@...il.com>,
        Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 20/21] PCI/P2PDMA: Introduce pci_mmap_p2pmem()




On 2022-06-29 00:48, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 10:12:32AM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
>> A pseudo mount is used to allocate an inode for each PCI device. The
>> inode's address_space is used in the file doing the mmap so that all
>> VMAs are collected and can be unmapped if the PCI device is unbound.
>> After unmapping, the VMAs are iterated through and their pages are
>> put so the device can continue to be unbound. An active flag is used
>> to signal to VMAs not to allocate any further P2P memory once the
>> removal process starts. The flag is synchronized with concurrent
>> access with an RCU lock.
> 
> Can't we come up with a way of doing this without all the pseudo-fs
> garbagage?  I really hate all the overhead for that in the next
> nvme patch as well.

I assume you still want to be able to unmap the VMAs on unbind and not
just hang?

I'll see if I can come up with something to do the a similar thing using
vm_private data or some such.

I was not a fan of the extra code for this either, but I was given to
understand that it was the standard way to collect and cleanup VMAs.

Thanks for the reviews,

Logan