Re: [patch 1/4] mmu_notifier: Core code

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To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@...>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...>, Robin Holt <holt@...>, Avi Kivity <avi@...>, Izik Eidus <izike@...>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...>, <kvm-devel@...>, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...>, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...>, <steiner@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <linux-mm@...>, <daniel.blueman@...>, Hugh Dickins <hugh@...>
Date: Friday, January 25, 2008 - 2:39 pm

> +#define mmu_notifier(function, mm, args...)				\
...

					__mn->ops->function(__mn, mm, args);	\
I realize it is a minor nit, but since we put the continuation in column
81 in the next define, can we do the same here and make this more
readable?

...




I think the hlist_del needs to be before the function callout so we can free
the structure without a use-after-free issue.

		hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(mn, n,
					  &mm->mmu_notifier.head, hlist) {
			hlist_del_rcu(&mn->hlist);
			if (mn->ops->release)
				mn->ops->release(mn, mm);




Remove


Shouldn't this really be protected by the down_write(mmap_sem)?  Maybe:
	BUG_ON(!rwsem_is_write_locked(&mm->mmap_sem));

	hlist_add_head_rcu(&mn->hlist, &mm->mmu_notifier.head);


hlist_del_rcu?  Ditto on the lock.


static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(mmu_rmap_notifier_list_lock);


	spin_lock(&mmu_rmap_notifier_list_lock);
	hlist_add_head_rcu(&mrn->hlist, &mmu_rmap_notifier_list);
	spin_unlock(&mmu_rmap_notifier_list_lock);


	spin_lock(&mmu_rmap_notifier_list_lock);
	hlist_del_rcu(&mrn->hlist);
	spin_unlock(&mmu_rmap_notifier_list_lock);



Can we consider moving this notifier or introducing an additional notifier
in the release or a flag to this one indicating early/late.

The GRU that Jack is concerned with would benefit from the early in
that it could just invalidate the GRU context and immediately all GRU
TLB entries are invalid.  I believe Jack would like to also be able to
remove his entry from the mmu_notifier list in an effort to avoid the
page and range callouts.

XPMEM, would also benefit from a call early.  We could make all the
segments as being torn down and start the recalls.  We already have
this code in and working (have since it was first written 6 years ago).
In this case, all segments are torn down with a single message to each
of the importing partitions.  In contrast, the teardown code which would
happen now would be one set of messages for each vma.

Thanks,
Robin
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Messages in current thread:
[patch 1/4] mmu_notifier: Core code, Christoph Lameter, (Fri Jan 25, 1:56 am)
Re: [patch 1/4] mmu_notifier: Core code, Robin Holt, (Fri Jan 25, 2:39 pm)
Re: [patch 1/4] mmu_notifier: Core code, Christoph Lameter, (Fri Jan 25, 2:47 pm)
Re: [patch 1/4] mmu_notifier: Core code, Robin Holt, (Fri Jan 25, 2:56 pm)
Re: [patch 1/4] mmu_notifier: Core code, Christoph Lameter, (Fri Jan 25, 3:03 pm)
Re: [patch 1/4] mmu_notifier: Core code, Robin Holt, (Fri Jan 25, 3:35 pm)
Re: [patch 1/4] mmu_notifier: Core code, Christoph Lameter, (Fri Jan 25, 5:18 pm)
Re: [patch 1/4] mmu_notifier: Core code, Robin Holt, (Sat Jan 26, 8:01 am)
Re: [patch 1/4] mmu_notifier: Core code, Christoph Lameter, (Mon Jan 28, 2:44 pm)
Re: [patch 1/4] mmu_notifier: Core code, Christoph Lameter, (Fri Jan 25, 4:10 pm)
Re: [patch 1/4] mmu_notifier: Core code, Robin Holt, (Sat Jan 26, 7:56 am)
Re: [patch 1/4] mmu_notifier: Core code, Christoph Lameter, (Mon Jan 28, 2:51 pm)