Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86: Convert vdso to use vm_fault_t

From: Souptick Joarder
Date: Tue Aug 28 2018 - 02:18:32 EST


On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 11:35 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 09:01:48PM +0530, Souptick Joarder wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 6:44 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, 3 Aug 2018, Souptick Joarder wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 2:47 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, 3 Jul 2018, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >> Return vm_fault_t codes directly from the appropriate mm routines instead
> > > > >> of converting from errnos ourselves. Fixes a minor bug where we'd return
> > > > >> SIGBUS instead of the correct OOM code if we ran out of memory allocating
> > > > >> page tables.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > >
> > > > > Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thomas, are these 3 patches part of this series will be queued
> > > > for 4.19 ?
> > >
> > > I don't know. I expected that these go through the mm tree, but if nobody
> > > feels responsible, I could pick up the whole lot. But I'd like to see acks
> > > from the mm folks for [1/3] and [3/3]
> > >
> > > https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180703123910.2180-1-willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > tglx
> > >
> >
> > Any comment from mm reviewers for patch [1/3] and [3/3] ??
> >
> > https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180703123910.2180-1-willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> I think at this point, it would probably be best to ask Andrew to pick
> up all three of these patches.

Do we need to repost these three patches or lkml link
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180703123910.2180-1-willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
is fine to request Andrew ??


> In addition to these three, I see the following places that need to be changed:
>
> Documentation/gpu/drm-mm.rst:300: int (*fault)(struct vm_fault *vmf);
ok, I will add this.

>
> drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_ttm.c:117:static int virtio_gpu_ttm_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> - #if 0 code. convert anyway.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/2/795
Gerd Hoffmann, agreed to remove this dead code, but queued for 4.20.
I think, this shouldn't be a blocker for us.

>
> drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_drv.h:68:int vkms_gem_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf);
> drivers/gpu/drm/vkms/vkms_gem.c:46:int vkms_gem_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)

This was not queued for 4.19. Would you like to see this patch in 4.19-rc-x ?
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/30/767

>
> fs/ext4/ext4.h:2472:extern int ext4_page_mkwrite(struct vm_fault *vmf);
> fs/ext4/ext4.h:2473:extern int ext4_filemap_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf);
> fs/ext4/inode.c:6154:int ext4_page_mkwrite(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> fs/ext4/inode.c:6251:int ext4_filemap_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)

I have this patch ready in my local tree based on review comment
from Ted. Ted was planning to take it in next merge window.
I will post it on mailing list.

>
> fs/iomap.c:1059:int iomap_page_mkwrite(struct vm_fault *vmf, const struct iomap_ops *ops)
> include/linux/iomap.h:144:int iomap_page_mkwrite(struct vm_fault *vmf, const struct iomap_ops *ops);
> - I saw you just resent this patch.

Now added to mm-tree.

> mm/filemap.c:2751:int filemap_page_mkwrite(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> - This is the NOMMU case, so I suspect your testing didn't catch it.
Sorry, I missed it.