Re: [PATCH 3/4] infiniband/mm: convert to the new put_user_page() call

From: John Hubbard
Date: Fri Sep 28 2018 - 23:12:39 EST


On 9/28/18 8:39 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 10:39:47PM -0700, john.hubbard@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
[...]
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c
>> index a41792dbae1f..9430d697cb9f 100644
>> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c
>> @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ static void __ib_umem_release(struct ib_device *dev, struct ib_umem *umem, int d
>> page = sg_page(sg);
>> if (!PageDirty(page) && umem->writable && dirty)
>> set_page_dirty_lock(page);
>> - put_page(page);
>> + put_user_page(page);
>
> Would it make sense to have a release/put_user_pages_dirtied to absorb
> the set_page_dity pattern too? I notice in this patch there is some
> variety here, I wonder what is the right way?
>
> Also, I'm told this code here is a big performance bottleneck when the
> number of pages becomes very long (think >> GB of memory), so having a
> future path to use some kind of batching/threading sound great.
>

Yes. And you asked for this the first time, too. Consistent! :) Sorry for
being slow to pick it up. It looks like there are several patterns, and
we have to support both set_page_dirty() and set_page_dirty_lock(). So
the best combination looks to be adding a few variations of
release_user_pages*(), but leaving put_user_page() alone, because it's
the "do it yourself" basic one. Scatter-gather will be stuck with that.

Here's a differential patch with that, that shows a nice little cleanup in
a couple of IB places, and as you point out, it also provides the hooks for
performance upgrades (via batching) in the future.

Does this API look about right?

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/user_pages.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/user_pages.c
index c7516029af33..48afec362c31 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/user_pages.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/user_pages.c
@@ -123,11 +123,7 @@ void hfi1_release_user_pages(struct mm_struct *mm, struct page **p,
{
size_t i;

- for (i = 0; i < npages; i++) {
- if (dirty)
- set_page_dirty_lock(p[i]);
- put_user_page(p[i]);
- }
+ release_user_pages_lock(p, npages, dirty);

if (mm) { /* during close after signal, mm can be NULL */
down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_user_pages.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_user_pages.c
index 3f8fd42dd7fc..c57a3a6730b6 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_user_pages.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_user_pages.c
@@ -40,13 +40,7 @@
static void __qib_release_user_pages(struct page **p, size_t num_pages,
int dirty)
{
- size_t i;
-
- for (i = 0; i < num_pages; i++) {
- if (dirty)
- set_page_dirty_lock(p[i]);
- put_user_page(p[i]);
- }
+ release_user_pages_lock(p, num_pages, dirty);
}

/*
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 72caf803115f..b280d0181e06 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -138,6 +138,9 @@ extern int overcommit_ratio_handler(struct ctl_table *, int, void __user *,
extern int overcommit_kbytes_handler(struct ctl_table *, int, void __user *,
size_t *, loff_t *);

+int set_page_dirty(struct page *page);
+int set_page_dirty_lock(struct page *page);
+
#define nth_page(page,n) pfn_to_page(page_to_pfn((page)) + (n))

/* to align the pointer to the (next) page boundary */
@@ -949,12 +952,56 @@ static inline void put_user_page(struct page *page)
put_page(page);
}

-/* A drop-in replacement for release_pages(): */
+/* For get_user_pages*()-pinned pages, use these variants instead of
+ * release_pages():
+ */
+static inline void release_user_pages_dirty(struct page **pages,
+ unsigned long npages)
+{
+ while (npages) {
+ set_page_dirty(pages[npages]);
+ put_user_page(pages[npages]);
+ --npages;
+ }
+}
+
+static inline void release_user_pages_dirty_lock(struct page **pages,
+ unsigned long npages)
+{
+ while (npages) {
+ set_page_dirty_lock(pages[npages]);
+ put_user_page(pages[npages]);
+ --npages;
+ }
+}
+
+static inline void release_user_pages_basic(struct page **pages,
+ unsigned long npages)
+{
+ while (npages) {
+ put_user_page(pages[npages]);
+ --npages;
+ }
+}
+
static inline void release_user_pages(struct page **pages,
- unsigned long npages)
+ unsigned long npages,
+ bool set_dirty)
{
- while (npages)
- put_user_page(pages[--npages]);
+ if (set_dirty)
+ release_user_pages_dirty(pages, npages);
+ else
+ release_user_pages_basic(pages, npages);
+}
+
+static inline void release_user_pages_lock(struct page **pages,
+ unsigned long npages,
+ bool set_dirty)
+{
+ if (set_dirty)
+ release_user_pages_dirty_lock(pages, npages);
+ else
+ release_user_pages_basic(pages, npages);
}

#if defined(CONFIG_SPARSEMEM) && !defined(CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP)
@@ -1548,8 +1595,6 @@ int redirty_page_for_writepage(struct writeback_control *wbc,
void account_page_dirtied(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping);
void account_page_cleaned(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping,
struct bdi_writeback *wb);
-int set_page_dirty(struct page *page);
-int set_page_dirty_lock(struct page *page);
void __cancel_dirty_page(struct page *page);
static inline void cancel_dirty_page(struct page *page)
{


> Otherwise this RDMA part seems fine to me, there might be some minor
> conflicts however. I assume you want to run this through the -mm tree?
>
> Acked-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>

Great, thanks for the ACK.


thanks,
--
John Hubbard
NVIDIA