[PATCH v5 05/15] mm/frame-vector: Use FOLL_LONGTERM

John Hubbard jhubbard at nvidia.com
Fri Oct 30 22:55:17 EDT 2020


On 10/30/20 3:08 AM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> This is used by media/videbuf2 for persistent dma mappings, not just
> for a single dma operation and then freed again, so needs
> FOLL_LONGTERM.
> 
> Unfortunately current pup_locked doesn't support FOLL_LONGTERM due to
> locking issues. Rework the code to pull the pup path out from the
> mmap_sem critical section as suggested by Jason.
> 
> By relying entirely on the vma checks in pin_user_pages and follow_pfn

There are vma checks in pin_user_pages(), but this patch changes things
to call pin_user_pages_fast(). And that does not have the vma checks.
More below about this:

> (for vm_flags and vma_is_fsdax) we can also streamline the code a lot.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at ziepe.ca>
> Cc: Pawel Osciak <pawel at osciak.com>
> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com>
> Cc: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park at samsung.com>
> Cc: Tomasz Figa <tfiga at chromium.org>
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab at kernel.org>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard at nvidia.com>
> Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse at redhat.com>
> Cc: Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams at intel.com>
> Cc: linux-mm at kvack.org
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-samsung-soc at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-media at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> --
> v2: Streamline the code and further simplify the loop checks (Jason)
> 
> v5: Review from Tomasz:
> - fix page counting for the follow_pfn case by resetting ret
> - drop gup_flags paramater, now unused
> ---
>   .../media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-memops.c |  3 +-
>   include/linux/mm.h                            |  2 +-
>   mm/frame_vector.c                             | 53 ++++++-------------
>   3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-memops.c b/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-memops.c
> index 6e9e05153f4e..9dd6c27162f4 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-memops.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-memops.c
> @@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ struct frame_vector *vb2_create_framevec(unsigned long start,
>   	unsigned long first, last;
>   	unsigned long nr;
>   	struct frame_vector *vec;
> -	unsigned int flags = FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_WRITE;
>   
>   	first = start >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>   	last = (start + length - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> @@ -48,7 +47,7 @@ struct frame_vector *vb2_create_framevec(unsigned long start,
>   	vec = frame_vector_create(nr);
>   	if (!vec)
>   		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> -	ret = get_vaddr_frames(start & PAGE_MASK, nr, flags, vec);
> +	ret = get_vaddr_frames(start & PAGE_MASK, nr, vec);
>   	if (ret < 0)
>   		goto out_destroy;
>   	/* We accept only complete set of PFNs */
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index ef360fe70aaf..d6b8e30dce2e 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -1765,7 +1765,7 @@ struct frame_vector {
>   struct frame_vector *frame_vector_create(unsigned int nr_frames);
>   void frame_vector_destroy(struct frame_vector *vec);
>   int get_vaddr_frames(unsigned long start, unsigned int nr_pfns,
> -		     unsigned int gup_flags, struct frame_vector *vec);
> +		     struct frame_vector *vec);
>   void put_vaddr_frames(struct frame_vector *vec);
>   int frame_vector_to_pages(struct frame_vector *vec);
>   void frame_vector_to_pfns(struct frame_vector *vec);
> diff --git a/mm/frame_vector.c b/mm/frame_vector.c
> index 10f82d5643b6..f8c34b895c76 100644
> --- a/mm/frame_vector.c
> +++ b/mm/frame_vector.c
> @@ -32,13 +32,12 @@
>    * This function takes care of grabbing mmap_lock as necessary.
>    */
>   int get_vaddr_frames(unsigned long start, unsigned int nr_frames,
> -		     unsigned int gup_flags, struct frame_vector *vec)
> +		     struct frame_vector *vec)
>   {
>   	struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
>   	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
>   	int ret = 0;
>   	int err;
> -	int locked;
>   
>   	if (nr_frames == 0)
>   		return 0;
> @@ -48,40 +47,26 @@ int get_vaddr_frames(unsigned long start, unsigned int nr_frames,
>   
>   	start = untagged_addr(start);
>   
> -	mmap_read_lock(mm);
> -	locked = 1;
> -	vma = find_vma_intersection(mm, start, start + 1);
> -	if (!vma) {
> -		ret = -EFAULT;
> -		goto out;
> -	}
> -
> -	/*
> -	 * While get_vaddr_frames() could be used for transient (kernel
> -	 * controlled lifetime) pinning of memory pages all current
> -	 * users establish long term (userspace controlled lifetime)
> -	 * page pinning. Treat get_vaddr_frames() like
> -	 * get_user_pages_longterm() and disallow it for filesystem-dax
> -	 * mappings.
> -	 */
> -	if (vma_is_fsdax(vma)) {
> -		ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
> -		goto out;
> -	}
> -
> -	if (!(vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP))) {

By removing this check from this location, and changing from
pin_user_pages_locked() to pin_user_pages_fast(), I *think* we end up
losing the check entirely. Is that intended? If so it could use a comment
somewhere to explain why.

thanks,
-- 
John Hubbard
NVIDIA

> +	ret = pin_user_pages_fast(start, nr_frames,
> +				  FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_WRITE | FOLL_LONGTERM,
> +				  (struct page **)(vec->ptrs));
> +	if (ret > 0) {
>   		vec->got_ref = true;
>   		vec->is_pfns = false;
> -		ret = pin_user_pages_locked(start, nr_frames,
> -			gup_flags, (struct page **)(vec->ptrs), &locked);
> -		goto out;
> +		goto out_unlocked;
>   	}
>   
> +	mmap_read_lock(mm);
>   	vec->got_ref = false;
>   	vec->is_pfns = true;
> +	ret = 0;
>   	do {
>   		unsigned long *nums = frame_vector_pfns(vec);
>   
> +		vma = find_vma_intersection(mm, start, start + 1);
> +		if (!vma)
> +			break;
> +
>   		while (ret < nr_frames && start + PAGE_SIZE <= vma->vm_end) {
>   			err = follow_pfn(vma, start, &nums[ret]);
>   			if (err) {
> @@ -92,17 +77,13 @@ int get_vaddr_frames(unsigned long start, unsigned int nr_frames,
>   			start += PAGE_SIZE;
>   			ret++;
>   		}
> -		/*
> -		 * We stop if we have enough pages or if VMA doesn't completely
> -		 * cover the tail page.
> -		 */
> -		if (ret >= nr_frames || start < vma->vm_end)
> +		/* Bail out if VMA doesn't completely cover the tail page. */
> +		if (start < vma->vm_end)
>   			break;
> -		vma = find_vma_intersection(mm, start, start + 1);
> -	} while (vma && vma->vm_flags & (VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP));
> +	} while (ret < nr_frames);
>   out:
> -	if (locked)
> -		mmap_read_unlock(mm);
> +	mmap_read_unlock(mm);
> +out_unlocked:
>   	if (!ret)
>   		ret = -EFAULT;
>   	if (ret > 0)
> 





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