On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 11:25:19 -0300 Jason Gunthorpe <j...@ziepe.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 07:14:24AM -0700, Jacob Pan wrote: > > > When the process is killed, mm release can happen before fds are > > > released. If you look at do_exit() in kernel/exit.c: > > > > > > exit_mm() > > > mmput() > > > -> mmu release notifier > > > ... > > > exit_files() > > > close_files() > > > fput() > > > exit_task_work() > > > __fput() > > > -> unbind() > > > > > So unbind is coming anyway, the difference in handling in mmu > > release notifier is whether we silently drop DMA fault vs. > > reporting fault? > > Userspace can significantly delay the final fput triggering the > unbind, the above is only for the trivial case where the process > owning the mm_struct is the only process holding the fd. > Are you talking about FDs owned buy children after fork() or FDs sent over to another process. I think, in either case SVA is not supported. > The destruction of a mm_struct should be treated the same as unmapping > every vma in the process. The observable effect should be no different > than munmap. > Good point. I agree, we should suppress the error in the window before unbind. > Jason [Jacob Pan] _______________________________________________ iommu mailing list iommu@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/iommu
