netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 4/5] tcp: implement mmap() for zero copy receive

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Message-ID: <7a961ead-e77d-7334-3c29-399e071670fb@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 19 Apr 2018 16:15:33 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
        Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>,
        Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/5] tcp: implement mmap() for zero copy receive



On 04/16/2018 10:33 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Some networks can make sure TCP payload can exactly fit 4KB pages,
> with well chosen MSS/MTU and architectures.
> 
> Implement mmap() system call so that applications can avoid
> copying data without complex splice() games.
> 
> Note that a successful mmap( X bytes) on TCP socket is consuming
> bytes, as if recvmsg() has been done. (tp->copied += X)
> 

Oh well, I should have run this code with LOCKDEP enabled :/

[  974.320412] ======================================================
[  974.326631] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
[  974.332816] 4.16.0-dbx-DEV #40 Not tainted
[  974.336927] ------------------------------------------------------
[  974.343107] b78299096/15790 is trying to acquire lock:
[  974.348246] 000000006074c9cf (sk_lock-AF_INET6){+.+.}, at: tcp_mmap+0x7c/0x550
[  974.355505] 
               but task is already holding lock:
[  974.361366] 000000008dbe063b (&mm->mmap_sem){++++}, at: vm_mmap_pgoff+0x99/0x100
[  974.368801] 
               which lock already depends on the new lock.

[  974.377010] 
               the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
[  974.384501] 
               -> #1 (&mm->mmap_sem){++++}:
[  974.389911]        __might_fault+0x68/0x90
[  974.394025]        _copy_from_user+0x23/0xa0
[  974.398311]        sock_setsockopt+0x4a2/0xac0
[  974.402761]        __sys_setsockopt+0xd9/0xf0
[  974.407118]        SyS_setsockopt+0xe/0x20
[  974.411242]        do_syscall_64+0x6e/0x1a0
[  974.415431]        entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x42/0xb7
[  974.421011] 
               -> #0 (sk_lock-AF_INET6){+.+.}:
[  974.426690]        lock_acquire+0x95/0x1e0
[  974.430813]        lock_sock_nested+0x71/0xa0
[  974.435196]        tcp_mmap+0x7c/0x550
[  974.438940]        sock_mmap+0x23/0x30
[  974.442695]        mmap_region+0x3a4/0x5d0
[  974.446808]        do_mmap+0x313/0x530
[  974.450571]        vm_mmap_pgoff+0xc7/0x100
[  974.454769]        ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x1d5/0x260
[  974.459247]        SyS_mmap+0x1b/0x30
[  974.462936]        do_syscall_64+0x6e/0x1a0
[  974.467114]        entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x42/0xb7
[  974.472678] 
               other info that might help us debug this:

[  974.480677]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:

[  974.486600]        CPU0                    CPU1
[  974.491152]        ----                    ----
[  974.495684]   lock(&mm->mmap_sem);
[  974.499089]                                lock(sk_lock-AF_INET6);
[  974.505285]                                lock(&mm->mmap_sem);
[  974.511211]   lock(sk_lock-AF_INET6);
[  974.514885] 
                *** DEADLOCK ***

[  974.520825] 1 lock held by b78299096/15790:
[  974.525018]  #0: 000000008dbe063b (&mm->mmap_sem){++++}, at: vm_mmap_pgoff+0x99/0x100
[  974.532852] 
               stack backtrace:
[  974.537224] CPU: 25 PID: 15790 Comm: b78299096 Not tainted 4.16.0-dbx-DEV #40
[  974.544371] Hardware name: Intel RML,PCH/Iota_QC_19, BIOS 2.40.0 06/22/2016
[  974.551333] Call Trace:
[  974.553792]  dump_stack+0x70/0xa5
[  974.557111]  print_circular_bug.isra.39+0x1d8/0x1e6
[  974.561982]  __lock_acquire+0x1284/0x1340
[  974.565992]  ? tcp_mmap+0x7c/0x550
[  974.569419]  lock_acquire+0x95/0x1e0
[  974.573011]  ? lock_acquire+0x95/0x1e0
[  974.576767]  ? tcp_mmap+0x7c/0x550
[  974.580167]  lock_sock_nested+0x71/0xa0
[  974.584023]  ? tcp_mmap+0x7c/0x550
[  974.587437]  tcp_mmap+0x7c/0x550
[  974.590677]  sock_mmap+0x23/0x30
[  974.593909]  mmap_region+0x3a4/0x5d0
[  974.597506]  do_mmap+0x313/0x530
[  974.600749]  vm_mmap_pgoff+0xc7/0x100
[  974.604414]  ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x1d5/0x260
[  974.608341]  ? fd_install+0x25/0x30
[  974.611849]  ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xef/0x180
[  974.616641]  SyS_mmap+0x1b/0x30
[  974.619804]  do_syscall_64+0x6e/0x1a0
[  974.623462]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x42/0xb7
[  974.628549] RIP: 0033:0x433749
[  974.631600] RSP: 002b:00007ffd29fdb438 EFLAGS: 00000216 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000009
[  974.639197] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00000000004002e0 RCX: 0000000000433749
[  974.646323] RDX: 0000000000000008 RSI: 0000000000004000 RDI: 0000000020ab7000
[  974.653463] RBP: 00007ffd29fdb460 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: 0000000000000000
[  974.660603] R10: 0000000000000012 R11: 0000000000000216 R12: 0000000000401670
[  974.667737] R13: 0000000000401700 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000


I am not sure we can keep mmap() API, since we probably need to first lock the socket,
then grab vm semaphore.