Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] mm/gup: consistently name GUP-fast functions

[Peter Xu]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 09:44:58AM -0400, Peter Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 09:17:47AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > On 02.04.24 14:55, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > > Let's consistently call the "fast-only" part of GUP "GUP-fast" and rename
> > > all relevant internal functions to start with "gup_fast", to make it
> > > clearer that this is not ordinary GUP. The current mixture of
> > > "lockless", "gup" and "gup_fast" is confusing.
> > > 
> > > Further, avoid the term "huge" when talking about a "leaf" -- for
> > > example, we nowadays check pmd_leaf() because pmd_huge() is gone. For the
> > > "hugepd"/"hugepte" stuff, it's part of the name ("is_hugepd"), so that
> > > stays.
> > > 
> > > What remains is the "external" interface:
> > > * get_user_pages_fast_only()
> > > * get_user_pages_fast()
> > > * pin_user_pages_fast()
> > > 
> > > The high-level internal functions for GUP-fast (+slow fallback) are now:
> > > * internal_get_user_pages_fast() -> gup_fast_fallback()
> > > * lockless_pages_from_mm() -> gup_fast()
> > > 
> > > The basic GUP-fast walker functions:
> > > * gup_pgd_range() -> gup_fast_pgd_range()
> > > * gup_p4d_range() -> gup_fast_p4d_range()
> > > * gup_pud_range() -> gup_fast_pud_range()
> > > * gup_pmd_range() -> gup_fast_pmd_range()
> > > * gup_pte_range() -> gup_fast_pte_range()
> > > * gup_huge_pgd()  -> gup_fast_pgd_leaf()
> > > * gup_huge_pud()  -> gup_fast_pud_leaf()
> > > * gup_huge_pmd()  -> gup_fast_pmd_leaf()
> > > 
> > > The weird hugepd stuff:
> > > * gup_huge_pd() -> gup_fast_hugepd()
> > > * gup_hugepte() -> gup_fast_hugepte()
> > 
> > I just realized that we end up calling these from follow_hugepd() as well.
> > And something seems to be off, because gup_fast_hugepd() won't have the VMA
> > even in the slow-GUP case to pass it to gup_must_unshare().
> > 
> > So these are GUP-fast functions and the terminology seem correct. But the
> > usage from follow_hugepd() is questionable,
> > 
> > commit a12083d721d703f985f4403d6b333cc449f838f6
> > Author: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date:   Wed Mar 27 11:23:31 2024 -0400
> > 
> >     mm/gup: handle hugepd for follow_page()
> > 
> > 
> > states "With previous refactors on fast-gup gup_huge_pd(), most of the code
> > can be leveraged", which doesn't look quite true just staring the the
> > gup_must_unshare() call where we don't pass the VMA. Also,
> > "unlikely(pte_val(pte) != pte_val(ptep_get(ptep)" doesn't make any sense for
> > slow GUP ...
> 
> Yes it's not needed, just doesn't look worthwhile to put another helper on
> top just for this.  I mentioned this in the commit message here:
> 
>   There's something not needed for follow page, for example, gup_hugepte()
>   tries to detect pgtable entry change which will never happen with slow
>   gup (which has the pgtable lock held), but that's not a problem to check.
> 
> > 
> > @Peter, any insights?
> 
> However I think we should pass vma in for sure, I guess I overlooked that,
> and it didn't expose in my tests too as I probably missed ./cow.
> 
> I'll prepare a separate patch on top of this series and the gup-fast rename
> patches (I saw this one just reached mm-stable), and I'll see whether I can
> test it too if I can find a Power system fast enough.  I'll probably drop
> the "fast" in the hugepd function names too.

Hmm, so when I enable 2M hugetlb I found ./cow is even failing on x86.

  # ./cow  | grep -B1 "not ok"
  # [RUN] vmsplice() + unmap in child ... with hugetlb (2048 kB)
  not ok 161 No leak from parent into child
  --
  # [RUN] vmsplice() + unmap in child with mprotect() optimization ... with hugetlb (2048 kB)
  not ok 215 No leak from parent into child
  --
  # [RUN] vmsplice() before fork(), unmap in parent after fork() ... with hugetlb (2048 kB)
  not ok 269 No leak from child into parent
  --
  # [RUN] vmsplice() + unmap in parent after fork() ... with hugetlb (2048 kB)
  not ok 323 No leak from child into parent

And it looks like it was always failing.. perhaps since the start?  We
didn't do the same on hugetlb v.s. normal anon from that regard on the
vmsplice() fix.

I drafted a patch to allow refcount>1 detection as the same, then all tests
pass for me, as below.

David, I'd like to double check with you before I post anything: is that
your intention to do so when working on the R/O pinning or not?

Thanks,

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