linux/mm
Ira Weiny 932f4a630a mm/gup: replace get_user_pages_longterm() with FOLL_LONGTERM
Pach series "Add FOLL_LONGTERM to GUP fast and use it".

HFI1, qib, and mthca, use get_user_pages_fast() due to its performance
advantages.  These pages can be held for a significant time.  But
get_user_pages_fast() does not protect against mapping FS DAX pages.

Introduce FOLL_LONGTERM and use this flag in get_user_pages_fast() which
retains the performance while also adding the FS DAX checks.  XDP has also
shown interest in using this functionality.[1]

In addition we change get_user_pages() to use the new FOLL_LONGTERM flag
and remove the specialized get_user_pages_longterm call.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/3/19/939

"longterm" is a relative thing and at this point is probably a misnomer.
This is really flagging a pin which is going to be given to hardware and
can't move.  I've thought of a couple of alternative names but I think we
have to settle on if we are going to use FL_LAYOUT or something else to
solve the "longterm" problem.  Then I think we can change the flag to a
better name.

Secondly, it depends on how often you are registering memory.  I have
spoken with some RDMA users who consider MR in the performance path...
For the overall application performance.  I don't have the numbers as the
tests for HFI1 were done a long time ago.  But there was a significant
advantage.  Some of which is probably due to the fact that you don't have
to hold mmap_sem.

Finally, architecturally I think it would be good for everyone to use
*_fast.  There are patches submitted to the RDMA list which would allow
the use of *_fast (they reworking the use of mmap_sem) and as soon as they
are accepted I'll submit a patch to convert the RDMA core as well.  Also
to this point others are looking to use *_fast.

As an aside, Jasons pointed out in my previous submission that *_fast and
*_unlocked look very much the same.  I agree and I think further cleanup
will be coming.  But I'm focused on getting the final solution for DAX at
the moment.

This patch (of 7):

This patch starts a series which aims to support FOLL_LONGTERM in
get_user_pages_fast().  Some callers who would like to do a longterm (user
controlled pin) of pages with the fast variant of GUP for performance
purposes.

Rather than have a separate get_user_pages_longterm() call, introduce
FOLL_LONGTERM and change the longterm callers to use it.

This patch does not change any functionality.  In the short term
"longterm" or user controlled pins are unsafe for Filesystems and FS DAX
in particular has been blocked.  However, callers of get_user_pages_fast()
were not "protected".

FOLL_LONGTERM can _only_ be supported with get_user_pages[_fast]() as it
requires vmas to determine if DAX is in use.

NOTE: In merging with the CMA changes we opt to change the
get_user_pages() call in check_and_migrate_cma_pages() to a call of
__get_user_pages_locked() on the newly migrated pages.  This makes the
code read better in that we are calling __get_user_pages_locked() on the
pages before and after a potential migration.

As a side affect some of the interfaces are cleaned up but this is not the
primary purpose of the series.

In review[1] it was asked:

<quote>
> This I don't get - if you do lock down long term mappings performance
> of the actual get_user_pages call shouldn't matter to start with.
>
> What do I miss?

A couple of points.

First "longterm" is a relative thing and at this point is probably a
misnomer.  This is really flagging a pin which is going to be given to
hardware and can't move.  I've thought of a couple of alternative names
but I think we have to settle on if we are going to use FL_LAYOUT or
something else to solve the "longterm" problem.  Then I think we can
change the flag to a better name.

Second, It depends on how often you are registering memory.  I have spoken
with some RDMA users who consider MR in the performance path...  For the
overall application performance.  I don't have the numbers as the tests
for HFI1 were done a long time ago.  But there was a significant
advantage.  Some of which is probably due to the fact that you don't have
to hold mmap_sem.

Finally, architecturally I think it would be good for everyone to use
*_fast.  There are patches submitted to the RDMA list which would allow
the use of *_fast (they reworking the use of mmap_sem) and as soon as they
are accepted I'll submit a patch to convert the RDMA core as well.  Also
to this point others are looking to use *_fast.

As an asside, Jasons pointed out in my previous submission that *_fast and
*_unlocked look very much the same.  I agree and I think further cleanup
will be coming.  But I'm focused on getting the final solution for DAX at
the moment.

</quote>

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190220180255.GA12020@iweiny-DESK2.sc.intel.com/T/#md6abad2569f3bf6c1f03686c8097ab6563e94965

[ira.weiny@intel.com: v3]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190328084422.29911-2-ira.weiny@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190328084422.29911-2-ira.weiny@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190317183438.2057-2-ira.weiny@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-05-14 09:47:45 -07:00
..
kasan arm64 updates for 5.2 2019-05-06 17:54:22 -07:00
backing-dev.c writeback: synchronize sync(2) against cgroup writeback membership switches 2019-01-22 14:39:38 -07:00
balloon_compaction.c virtio_balloon: fix deadlock on OOM 2017-11-14 23:57:38 +02:00
cleancache.c mm: use octal not symbolic permissions 2018-06-15 07:55:25 +09:00
cma_debug.c mm/cma_debug.c: fix the break condition in cma_maxchunk_get() 2019-05-14 09:47:45 -07:00
cma.c memblock: emphasize that memblock_alloc_range() returns a physical address 2019-03-12 10:04:01 -07:00
cma.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
compaction.c mm/compaction.c: abort search if isolation fails 2019-04-04 11:56:15 +01:00
debug_page_ref.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
debug.c mm/debug.c: fix __dump_page when mapping->host is not set 2019-03-29 10:01:37 -07:00
dmapool.c docs/core-api/mm: fix return value descriptions in mm/ 2019-03-05 21:07:20 -08:00
early_ioremap.c mm/early_ioremap: Fix boot hang with earlyprintk=efi,keep 2017-12-11 14:54:44 +01:00
fadvise.c vfs: implement readahead(2) using POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED 2018-08-30 20:01:32 +02:00
failslab.c mm: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions 2019-03-05 21:07:17 -08:00
filemap.c mm: page cache: store only head pages in i_pages 2019-05-14 09:47:45 -07:00
frame_vector.c mm/frame_vector.c: release a semaphore in 'get_vaddr_frames()' 2017-12-14 16:00:48 -08:00
frontswap.c mm: use octal not symbolic permissions 2018-06-15 07:55:25 +09:00
gup_benchmark.c mm/gup: replace get_user_pages_longterm() with FOLL_LONGTERM 2019-05-14 09:47:45 -07:00
gup.c mm/gup: replace get_user_pages_longterm() with FOLL_LONGTERM 2019-05-14 09:47:45 -07:00
highmem.c mm: convert totalram_pages and totalhigh_pages variables to atomic 2018-12-28 12:11:47 -08:00
hmm.c mm/hmm: convert to use vm_fault_t 2019-03-12 10:04:00 -07:00
huge_memory.c mm: page cache: store only head pages in i_pages 2019-05-14 09:47:45 -07:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c mm: rename page_counter's count/limit into usage/max 2018-06-07 17:34:35 -07:00
hugetlb.c mm/hugetlb.c: don't put_page in lock of hugetlb_lock 2019-05-14 09:47:44 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c mm/memory_failure: Remove unused trapno from memory_failure 2018-01-23 12:17:42 -06:00
init-mm.c mm: Allocate the mm_cpumask (mm->cpu_bitmap[]) dynamically based on nr_cpu_ids 2018-07-17 09:35:30 +02:00
internal.h mm, compaction: capture a page under direct compaction 2019-03-05 21:07:17 -08:00
interval_tree.c mm/interval_tree.c: use vma_pages() helper 2018-01-31 17:18:37 -08:00
Kconfig ksm: replace jhash2 with xxhash 2018-12-28 12:11:46 -08:00
Kconfig.debug mm/page_owner: move config option to mm/Kconfig.debug 2019-03-05 21:07:18 -08:00
khugepaged.c mm: page cache: store only head pages in i_pages 2019-05-14 09:47:45 -07:00
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c Merge branch 'core-stacktrace-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2019-05-06 13:11:48 -07:00
ksm.c mm: ksm: do not block on page lock when searching stable tree 2019-03-05 21:07:19 -08:00
list_lru.c numa: make "nr_node_ids" unsigned int 2019-03-05 21:07:19 -08:00
maccess.c Revert "x86/fault: BUG() when uaccess helpers fault on kernel addresses" 2019-02-25 09:10:51 -08:00
madvise.c asm-generic/tlb, arch: Provide CONFIG_HAVE_MMU_GATHER_PAGE_SIZE 2019-04-03 10:32:40 +02:00
Makefile mm: remove nobootmem 2018-10-31 08:54:16 -07:00
memblock.c Printk changes for 5.2 2019-05-07 09:18:12 -07:00
memcontrol.c mm: writeback: use exact memcg dirty counts 2019-04-05 16:02:31 -10:00
memfd.c mm: page cache: store only head pages in i_pages 2019-05-14 09:47:45 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c mm/memory_hotplug.c: drop memory device reference after find_memory_block() 2019-04-26 09:18:04 -07:00
memory-failure.c mm: hwpoison: fix thp split handing in soft_offline_in_use_page() 2019-03-05 21:07:13 -08:00
memory.c Printk changes for 5.2 2019-05-07 09:18:12 -07:00
mempolicy.c mm: mempolicy: make mbind() return -EIO when MPOL_MF_STRICT is specified 2019-03-29 10:01:37 -07:00
mempool.c docs/core-api/mm: fix return value descriptions in mm/ 2019-03-05 21:07:20 -08:00
memtest.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
migrate.c mm: page cache: store only head pages in i_pages 2019-05-14 09:47:45 -07:00
mincore.c Revert "Change mincore() to count "mapped" pages rather than "cached" pages" 2019-01-24 09:04:37 +13:00
mlock.c mm: remove zone_lru_lock() function, access ->lru_lock directly 2019-03-05 21:07:21 -08:00
mm_init.c mm: convert totalram_pages and totalhigh_pages variables to atomic 2018-12-28 12:11:47 -08:00
mmap.c coredump: fix race condition between mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() and core dumping 2019-04-19 09:46:05 -07:00
mmu_context.c
mmu_gather.c asm-generic/tlb: Remove tlb_table_flush() 2019-04-03 10:33:02 +02:00
mmu_notifier.c mm/mmu_notifier: use structure for invalidate_range_start/end calls v2 2018-12-28 12:11:50 -08:00
mmzone.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
mprotect.c mm: update ptep_modify_prot_commit to take old pte value as arg 2019-03-05 21:07:18 -08:00
mremap.c mm,mremap: bail out earlier in mremap_to under map pressure 2019-03-05 21:07:21 -08:00
msync.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
nommu.c mm/gup: cache dev_pagemap while pinning pages 2018-10-26 16:38:15 -07:00
oom_kill.c mm,oom: don't kill global init via memory.oom.group 2019-03-05 21:07:19 -08:00
page_alloc.c mm, page_alloc: disallow __GFP_COMP in alloc_pages_exact() 2019-05-14 09:47:45 -07:00
page_counter.c memcg: introduce memory.min 2018-06-07 17:34:36 -07:00
page_ext.c memblock: drop memblock_alloc_*_nopanic() variants 2019-03-12 10:04:02 -07:00
page_idle.c mm: remove zone_lru_lock() function, access ->lru_lock directly 2019-03-05 21:07:21 -08:00
page_io.c mm/page_io.c: fix polled swap page in 2019-01-04 13:13:48 -08:00
page_isolation.c mm/page_isolation.c: fix a wrong flag in set_migratetype_isolate() 2019-03-29 10:01:37 -07:00
page_owner.c mm/page_owner: Simplify stack trace handling 2019-04-29 12:37:50 +02:00
page_poison.c page_poison: play nicely with KASAN 2019-03-05 21:07:13 -08:00
page_vma_mapped.c mm/rmap: map_pte() was not handling private ZONE_DEVICE page properly 2018-10-31 08:54:11 -07:00
page-writeback.c docs/core-api/mm: fix return value descriptions in mm/ 2019-03-05 21:07:20 -08:00
pagewalk.c mm: kernel-doc: add missing parameter descriptions 2018-04-05 21:36:27 -07:00
percpu-internal.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
percpu-km.c percpu: km: no need to consider pcpu_group_offsets[0] 2019-02-26 13:47:58 -08:00
percpu-stats.c treewide: Use array_size() in vmalloc() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
percpu-vm.c percpu: allow select gfp to be passed to underlying allocators 2018-02-18 05:33:01 -08:00
percpu.c percpu: stop printing kernel addresses 2019-03-18 10:36:36 -07:00
pgtable-generic.c x86/mm: Page size aware flush_tlb_mm_range() 2018-10-09 16:51:11 +02:00
process_vm_access.c mm: docs: add blank lines to silence sphinx "Unexpected indentation" errors 2018-02-06 18:32:48 -08:00
quicklist.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
readahead.c docs/core-api/mm: fix return value descriptions in mm/ 2019-03-05 21:07:20 -08:00
rmap.c mm: remove zone_lru_lock() function, access ->lru_lock directly 2019-03-05 21:07:21 -08:00
rodata_test.c mm: fix RODATA_TEST failure "rodata_test: test data was not read only" 2017-10-03 17:54:24 -07:00
shmem.c mm: page cache: store only head pages in i_pages 2019-05-14 09:47:45 -07:00
slab_common.c mm: add support for kmem caches in DMA32 zone 2019-03-29 10:01:37 -07:00
slab.c mm/slab.c: fix an infinite loop in leaks_show() 2019-05-14 09:47:45 -07:00
slab.h mm: add support for kmem caches in DMA32 zone 2019-03-29 10:01:37 -07:00
slob.c slob: use slab_list instead of lru 2019-05-14 09:47:44 -07:00
slub.c mm/slub.c: update the comment about slab frozen 2019-05-14 09:47:45 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c mm: remove include/linux/bootmem.h 2018-10-31 08:54:16 -07:00
sparse.c mm/hotplug: fix offline undo_isolate_page_range() 2019-03-29 10:01:37 -07:00
swap_cgroup.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
swap_slots.c mm, swap, get_swap_pages: use entry_size instead of cluster in parameter 2018-08-22 10:52:44 -07:00
swap_state.c mm: page cache: store only head pages in i_pages 2019-05-14 09:47:45 -07:00
swap.c mm: remove zone_lru_lock() function, access ->lru_lock directly 2019-03-05 21:07:21 -08:00
swapfile.c mm: swapoff: shmem_unuse() stop eviction without igrab() 2019-04-19 09:46:04 -07:00
truncate.c docs/core-api/mm: fix return value descriptions in mm/ 2019-03-05 21:07:20 -08:00
usercopy.c mm/usercopy.c: no check page span for stack objects 2019-01-08 17:15:11 -08:00
userfaultfd.c hugetlbfs: revert "use i_mmap_rwsem for more pmd sharing synchronization" 2019-01-08 17:15:11 -08:00
util.c mm/util.c: fix strndup_user() comment 2019-04-05 16:02:31 -10:00
vmacache.c mm: get rid of vmacache_flush_all() entirely 2018-09-13 15:18:04 -10:00
vmalloc.c mm/vmalloc: Add flag for freeing of special permsissions 2019-04-30 12:37:58 +02:00
vmpressure.c mm/vmpressure.c: convert to use match_string() helper 2018-06-07 17:34:36 -07:00
vmscan.c mm: generalize putback scan functions 2019-05-14 09:47:45 -07:00
vmstat.c mm/vmstat.c: fix /proc/vmstat format for CONFIG_DEBUG_TLBFLUSH=y CONFIG_SMP=n 2019-04-19 09:46:04 -07:00
workingset.c mm/workingset: remove unused @mapping argument in workingset_eviction() 2019-03-05 21:07:21 -08:00
z3fold.c z3fold: fix possible reclaim races 2018-11-18 10:15:09 -08:00
zbud.c mm: docs: fix parameter names mismatch 2018-02-06 18:32:48 -08:00
zpool.c mm/zpool.c: zpool_evictable: fix mismatch in parameter name and kernel-doc 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
zsmalloc.c mm/zsmalloc.c: fix fall-through annotation 2018-10-26 16:26:35 -07:00
zswap.c mm: convert totalram_pages and totalhigh_pages variables to atomic 2018-12-28 12:11:47 -08:00