linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 41/55] iscsi: Assume "sendpage" is okay in iscsi_tcp_segment

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Date:   Tue, 25 Apr 2023 15:13:33 +0200
From:   "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@...il.com>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
        Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
        Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@...cle.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, target-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 41/55] iscsi: Assume "sendpage" is okay in
 iscsi_tcp_segment_map()

On martedì 25 aprile 2023 10:30:30 CEST David Howells wrote:
> Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@...il.com> wrote:
> > > -	if (recv) {
> > > -		segment->atomic_mapped = true;
> > > -		segment->sg_mapped = kmap_atomic(sg_page(sg));
> > > -	} else {
> > > -		segment->atomic_mapped = false;
> > > -		/* the xmit path can sleep with the page mapped so use
> > 
> > kmap */
> > 
> > > -		segment->sg_mapped = kmap(sg_page(sg));
> > > -	}
> > > -
> > > +	segment->atomic_mapped = true;
> > > +	segment->sg_mapped = kmap_atomic(sg_page(sg));
> > 
> > As you probably know, kmap_atomic() is deprecated.
> > 
> > I must admit that I'm not an expert of this code, however, it looks like 
the
> > mapping has no need to rely on the side effects of kmap_atomic() (i.e.,
> > pagefault_disable() and preempt_disable() - but I'm not entirely sure 
about
> > the possibility that preemption should be explicitly disabled along with 
the
> > replacement with kmap_local_page()).
> > 
> > Last year I've been working on several conversions from kmap{,_atomic}() 
to
> > kmap_local_page(), however I'm still not sure to understand what's 
happening
> > here...
> > 
> > Am I missing any important details? Can you please explain why we still 
need
> > that kmap_atomic() instead of kmap_local_page()?
> 
> Actually, it might be worth dropping segment->sg_mapped and segment->data 
and
> only doing the kmap_local when necessary.
> 
> And this:
> 
> 			struct msghdr msg = { .msg_flags = flags };
> 			struct kvec iov = {
> 				.iov_base = segment->data + offset,
> 				.iov_len = copy
> 			};
> 
> 			r = kernel_sendmsg(sk, &msg, &iov, 1, copy);
> 
> should really be using struct bvec, not struct kvec - then the mapping isn't
> necessary.

FWIW, struct bvec looks better suited (despite I have very little knowledge of 
this code).

I assume that you noticed that we also have the unmapping counterpart 
(iscsi_tcp_segment_unmap()) which should also be addressed accordingly.

> It looks like this might be the only place the mapping is used,
> but I'm not 100% certain.

It seems that kmap_atomic() (as well as kmap(), which you deleted) is only 
called by iscsi_tcp_segment_map(), which in turn is called only by  
iscsi_tcp_segment_done(). I can't see any other places where the mapping is 
used.

I hope that this dialogue may help you somehow to choose the best suited way 
to get rid of that deprecated kmap_atomic().

Thanks for taking time to address questions from newcomers :-) 

Fabio

> 
> David