Re: [PATCH v12 2/5] fs/proc/task_mmu: Implement IOCTL to get and optionally clear info about PTEs

[Muhammad Usama Anjum]

On 4/7/23 12:34 PM, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Apr 2023 at 23:04, Muhammad Usama Anjum
> <usama.anjum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 4/7/23 1:00 AM, Michał Mirosław wrote:
>>> On Thu, 6 Apr 2023 at 19:58, Muhammad Usama Anjum
>>> <usama.anjum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [...]
>>>>>> +               cur->len += n_pages;
>>>>>> +               p->found_pages += n_pages;
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +               if (p->max_pages && (p->found_pages == p->max_pages))
>>>>>> +                       return PM_SCAN_FOUND_MAX_PAGES;
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +               return 0;
>>>>>> +       }
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +       if (!p->vec_index || ((p->vec_index + 1) < p->vec_len)) {
>>>>>
>>>>> It looks that `if (p->vec_index < p->vec_len)` is enough here - if we
>>>>> have vec_len == 0 here, then we'd not fit the entry in the userspace
>>>>> buffer anyway. Am I missing something?
>>>> No. I'd explained it with diagram last time:
>>>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/3c8d9ea0-1382-be0c-8dd2-d490eedd3b55@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>
>>>> I'll add a concise comment here.
>>>
>>> So it seems, but I think the code changed a bit and maybe could be
>>> simplified now? Since p->vec_len == 0 is currently not valid, the
>>> field could count only the entries available in p->vec[] -- IOW: not
>>> include p->cur in the count.
>> I see. But this'll not work as we need to count p->cur to don't go above
>> the maximum count, p->vec_size.
> 
> You can subtract 1 from p->vec_size before the page walk to account
> for the buffer in `cur`.
Yeah, it can be done. But I've thought about it. It would look more uglier.
I'll have to subtract 1 from vec_len in the start and then add 1 in the
end. The current algorithm seems simpler.

> 
> [...]
>>>>>> +static inline int pagemap_scan_deposit(struct pagemap_scan_private *p,
>>>>>> +                                      struct page_region __user *vec,
>>>>>> +                                      unsigned long *vec_index)
>>>>>
>>>>> ..._deposit() is used only in single place - please inline.
>>>> It is already inline.
>>>
>>> Sorry. I mean: please paste the code in place of the single call.
>> I've made it a separate function to make the code look better in the caller
>> function and logically easier to understand. This function is ugly.
>> do_pagemap_scan() is also already very long function with lots of things
>> happening. If you still insist, I'll remove this function.
> 
> Please do remove - it will make the copy to userspace code all neatly together.
Will remove it.

> 
> [...]
>>>>>> +                */
>>>>>> +               if (is_written && PM_SCAN_OP_IS_WP(p) &&
>>>>>> +                   ((end - start < HPAGE_SIZE) ||
>>>>>> +                    (p->max_pages &&
>>>>>> +                     (p->max_pages - p->found_pages) < n_pages))) {
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +                       split_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, start);
>>>>>> +                       goto process_smaller_pages;
>>>>>> +               }
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +               if (p->max_pages &&
>>>>>> +                   p->found_pages + n_pages > p->max_pages)
>>>>>> +                       n_pages = p->max_pages - p->found_pages;
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +               ret = pagemap_scan_output(is_written, is_file, is_present,
>>>>>> +                                         is_swap, p, start, n_pages);
>>>>>> +               if (ret < 0)
>>>>>> +                       return ret;
>>>
>>> So let's simplify this:
>>>
>>> if (p->max_pages && n_pages > max_pages - found_pages)
>>>   n_pages = max_pages - found_pages;
>>>
>>> if (is_written && DO_WP && n_pages != HPAGE_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE) {
>>>   split_thp();
>>>   goto process_smaller_pages;
>>> }
>> Clever!! This looks very sleek.
>>
>>>
>>> BTW, THP handling could be extracted to a function that would return
>>> -EAGAIN if it has split the page or it wasn't a THP -- and that would
>>> mean `goto process_smaller_pages`.
>> Other functions in this file handle the THP in this same way. So it feels
>> like more intuitive that we follow to same pattern in this file.
> 
> I'll leave it to you. Extracting THP support would avoid a goto and
> #ifdef inside a function, though (and make the function smaller).
> 
>>>>>> +       /*
>>>>>> +        * Allocate smaller buffer to get output from inside the page walk
>>>>>> +        * functions and walk page range in PAGEMAP_WALK_SIZE size chunks. As
>>>>>> +        * we want to return output to user in compact form where no two
>>>>>> +        * consecutive regions should be continuous and have the same flags.
>>>>>> +        * So store the latest element in p.cur between different walks and
>>>>>> +        * store the p.cur at the end of the walk to the user buffer.
>>>>>> +        */
>>>>>> +       p.vec = kmalloc_array(p.vec_len, sizeof(struct page_region),
>>>>>> +                             GFP_KERNEL);
>>>>>> +       if (!p.vec)
>>>>>> +               return -ENOMEM;
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +       walk_start = walk_end = start;
>>>>>> +       while (walk_end < end && !ret) {
>>>>>
>>>>> The loop will stop if a previous iteration returned ENOSPC (and the
>>>>> error will be lost) - is it intended?
>>>> It is intentional. -ENOSPC means that the user buffer is full even though
>>>> there was more memory to walk over. We don't treat this error. So when
>>>> buffer gets full, we stop walking over further as user buffer has gotten
>>>> full and return as success.
>>>
>>> Thanks. What's the difference between -ENOSPC and
>>> PM_SCAN_FOUND_MAX_PAGES? They seem to result in the same effect (code
>>> flow).
>> -ENOSPC --> user buffer has been filled completely
>> PM_SCAN_FOUND_MAX_PAGES --> max_pages have been found, user buffer may
>>                             still have more space
> 
> What is the difference in code behaviour when those two cases are
> compared? (I'd expect none.)
There is difference:
We add data to user buffer. If it succeeds with return code 0, we engage
the WP. If it succeeds with PM_SCAN_FOUND_MAX_PAGES, we still engage the
WP. But if we get -ENOSPC, we don't perform engage as the data wasn't added
to the user buffer.

> 
> Best Regards
> Michał Mirosław

-- 
BR,
Muhammad Usama Anjum