On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 11:57 -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Toshi Kani <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 13:02 -0700, Toshi Kani wrote: > > > On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 11:00 -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > > > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Toshi Kani <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 10:06 -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Dan Williams < > > > > > > [email protected]> > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Toshi Kani <[email protected]> > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Oh, I see. I will setup the memmap array and run the tests > > > > > > > > again. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > But, why does the PMD mapping depend on the memmap array? We > > > > > > > > have observed major performance improvement with PMD. This > > > > > > > > feature should always be enabled with DAX regardless of the > > > > > > > > option to allocate the memmap array. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Several factors drove this decision, I'm open to considering > > > > > > > alternatives but here's the reasoning: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 1/ DAX pmd mappings caused crashes in the get_user_pages path > > > > > > > leading to commit e82c9ed41e8 "dax: disable pmd mappings". The > > > > > > > reason pte mappings don't crash and instead trigger -EFAULT is > > > > > > > due > > > > > > > to the _PAGE_SPECIAL pte bit. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 2/ To enable get_user_pages for DAX, in both the page and huge > > > > > > > -page case, we need a new pte bit _PAGE_DEVMAP. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 3/ Given the pte bits are hard to come I'm assuming we won't get > > > > > > > two, i.e. both _PAGE_DEVMAP and a new _PAGE_SPECIAL for pmds. > > > > > > > Even if we could get a _PAGE_SPECIAL for pmds I'm not in favor > > > > > > > of > > > > > > > pursuing it. > > > > > > > > > > > > Actually, Dave says they aren't that hard to come by for pmds, so we > > > > > > could go add _PMD_SPECIAL if we really wanted to support the limited > > > > > > page-less DAX-pmd case. > > > > > > > > > > > > But I'm still of the opinion that we run away from the page-less > > > > > > case until it can be made a full class citizen with O_DIRECT for pfn > > > > > > support. > > > > > > > > > > I may be missing something, but per vm_normal_page(), I think > > > > > _PAGE_SPECIAL can be substituted by the following check when we do not > > > > > have the memmap. > > > > > > > > > > if ((vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP) || > > > > > ((vma->vm_flags & VM_MIXEDMAP) && (!pfn_valid(pfn)))) { > > > > > > > > > > This is what I did in this patch for follow_trans_huge_pmd(), > > > > > although > > > > > I missed the pfn_valid() check. > > > > > > > > That works for __get_user_pages but not __get_user_pages_fast where we > > > > don't have access to the vma. > > > > > > __get_user_page_fast already refers current->mm, so we should be able to > > > get the vma, and pass it down to gup_pud_range(). > > > > Alternatively, we can obtain the vma from current->mm in gup_huge_pmd() > > when > > the !pfn_valid() condition is met, so that we do not add the code to the > > main path of __get_user_pages_fast. > > The whole point of __get_user_page_fast() is to avoid the overhead of > taking the mm semaphore to access the vma. _PAGE_SPECIAL simply tells > __get_user_pages_fast that it needs to fallback to the > __get_user_pages slow path.
I see. Then, I think gup_huge_pmd() can simply return 0 when !pfn_valid(), instead of VM_BUG_ON. Thanks, -Toshi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
