linux-stable.git/include/linux/mmu_notifier.h, branch v5.1.2

mm/mmu_notifier: use structure for invalidate_range_start/end calls v2

2018-12-28T20:11:50+00:00

To avoid having to change many call sites everytime we want to add a
parameter use a structure to group all parameters for the mmu_notifier
invalidate_range_start/end cakks.  No functional changes with this patch.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181205053628.3210-3-jglisse@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse 
Acked-by: Christian König 
Acked-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Ross Zwisler 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: Paolo Bonzini 
Cc: Radim Krcmar 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Felix Kuehling 
Cc: Ralph Campbell 
Cc: John Hubbard 
From: Jérôme Glisse 
Subject: mm/mmu_notifier: use structure for invalidate_range_start/end calls v3

fix build warning in migrate.c when CONFIG_MMU_NOTIFIER=n

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181213171330.8489-3-jglisse@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/mmu_notifier: use structure for invalidate_range_start/end callback

2018-12-28T20:11:50+00:00

Patch series "mmu notifier contextual informations", v2.

This patchset adds contextual information, why an invalidation is
happening, to mmu notifier callback.  This is necessary for user of mmu
notifier that wish to maintains their own data structure without having to
add new fields to struct vm_area_struct (vma).

For instance device can have they own page table that mirror the process
address space.  When a vma is unmap (munmap() syscall) the device driver
can free the device page table for the range.

Today we do not have any information on why a mmu notifier call back is
happening and thus device driver have to assume that it is always an
munmap().  This is inefficient at it means that it needs to re-allocate
device page table on next page fault and rebuild the whole device driver
data structure for the range.

Other use case beside munmap() also exist, for instance it is pointless
for device driver to invalidate the device page table when the
invalidation is for the soft dirtyness tracking.  Or device driver can
optimize away mprotect() that change the page table permission access for
the range.

This patchset enables all this optimizations for device drivers.  I do not
include any of those in this series but another patchset I am posting will
leverage this.

The patchset is pretty simple from a code point of view.  The first two
patches consolidate all mmu notifier arguments into a struct so that it is
easier to add/change arguments.  The last patch adds the contextual
information (munmap, protection, soft dirty, clear, ...).

This patch (of 3):

To avoid having to change many callback definition everytime we want to
add a parameter use a structure to group all parameters for the
mmu_notifier invalidate_range_start/end callback.  No functional changes
with this patch.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_mn.c kerneldoc]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181205053628.3210-2-jglisse@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse 
Acked-by: Jan Kara 
Acked-by: Jason Gunthorpe 	[infiniband]
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Ross Zwisler 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: Paolo Bonzini 
Cc: Radim Krcmar 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Christian Koenig 
Cc: Felix Kuehling 
Cc: Ralph Campbell 
Cc: John Hubbard 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/mmu_notifier.c: remove mmu_notifier_synchronize()

2018-12-28T20:11:46+00:00

Contrary to its name, mmu_notifier_synchronize() does not synchronize the
notifier's SRCU instance, but rather waits for RCU callbacks to finish.
i.e.  it invokes rcu_barrier().  The RCU documentation is quite clear on
this matter, explicitly calling out that rcu_barrier() does not imply
synchronize_rcu().

As there are no callers of mmu_notifier_synchronize() and it's unclear
whether any user of mmu_notifier_call_srcu() will ever want to barrier on
their callbacks, simply remove the function.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181106134705.14197-1-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Jérôme Glisse 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Revert "mm, mmu_notifier: annotate mmu notifiers with blockable invalidate callbacks"

2018-10-26T23:25:19+00:00

Revert 5ff7091f5a2ca ("mm, mmu_notifier: annotate mmu notifiers with
blockable invalidate callbacks").

MMU_INVALIDATE_DOES_NOT_BLOCK flags was the only one used and it is no
longer needed since 93065ac753e4 ("mm, oom: distinguish blockable mode for
mmu notifiers").  We now have a full support for per range !blocking
behavior so we can drop the stop gap workaround which the per notifier
flag was used for.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180827112623.8992-4-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky 
Cc: Jerome Glisse 
Cc: Juergen Gross 
Cc: Tetsuo Handa 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, mmu_notifier: be explicit about range invalition non-blocking mode

2018-10-26T23:25:19+00:00

If invalidate_range_start() is called for !blocking mode then all
callbacks have to guarantee they will no block/sleep.  The same obviously
applies to invalidate_range_end because this operation pairs with the
former and they are called from the same context.  Make sure this is
appropriately documented.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180827112623.8992-3-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Reviewed-by: Jerome Glisse 
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Juergen Gross 
Cc: Tetsuo Handa 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, oom: distinguish blockable mode for mmu notifiers

2018-08-22T17:52:44+00:00

There are several blockable mmu notifiers which might sleep in
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start and that is a problem for the
oom_reaper because it needs to guarantee a forward progress so it cannot
depend on any sleepable locks.

Currently we simply back off and mark an oom victim with blockable mmu
notifiers as done after a short sleep.  That can result in selecting a new
oom victim prematurely because the previous one still hasn't torn its
memory down yet.

We can do much better though.  Even if mmu notifiers use sleepable locks
there is no reason to automatically assume those locks are held.  Moreover
majority of notifiers only care about a portion of the address space and
there is absolutely zero reason to fail when we are unmapping an unrelated
range.  Many notifiers do really block and wait for HW which is harder to
handle and we have to bail out though.

This patch handles the low hanging fruit.
__mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start gets a blockable flag and callbacks
are not allowed to sleep if the flag is set to false.  This is achieved by
using trylock instead of the sleepable lock for most callbacks and
continue as long as we do not block down the call chain.

I think we can improve that even further because there is a common pattern
to do a range lookup first and then do something about that.  The first
part can be done without a sleeping lock in most cases AFAICS.

The oom_reaper end then simply retries if there is at least one notifier
which couldn't make any progress in !blockable mode.  A retry loop is
already implemented to wait for the mmap_sem and this is basically the
same thing.

The simplest way for driver developers to test this code path is to wrap
userspace code which uses these notifiers into a memcg and set the hard
limit to hit the oom.  This can be done e.g.  after the test faults in all
the mmu notifier managed memory and set the hard limit to something really
small.  Then we are looking for a proper process tear down.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: minor code simplification]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180716115058.5559-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Christian König  # AMD notifiers
Acked-by: Leon Romanovsky  # mlx and umem_odp
Reported-by: David Rientjes 
Cc: "David (ChunMing) Zhou" 
Cc: Paolo Bonzini 
Cc: Alex Deucher 
Cc: David Airlie 
Cc: Jani Nikula 
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen 
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi 
Cc: Doug Ledford 
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe 
Cc: Mike Marciniszyn 
Cc: Dennis Dalessandro 
Cc: Sudeep Dutt 
Cc: Ashutosh Dixit 
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich 
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky 
Cc: Juergen Gross 
Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Felix Kuehling 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

docs/vm: rename documentation files to .rst

2018-04-16T20:18:15+00:00

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

mm, mmu_notifier: annotate mmu notifiers with blockable invalidate callbacks

2018-02-01T01:18:38+00:00

Commit 4d4bbd8526a8 ("mm, oom_reaper: skip mm structs with mmu
notifiers") prevented the oom reaper from unmapping private anonymous
memory with the oom reaper when the oom victim mm had mmu notifiers
registered.

The rationale is that doing mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_{start,end}()
around the unmap_page_range(), which is needed, can block and the oom
killer will stall forever waiting for the victim to exit, which may not
be possible without reaping.

That concern is real, but only true for mmu notifiers that have
blockable invalidate_range_{start,end}() callbacks.  This patch adds a
"flags" field to mmu notifier ops that can set a bit to indicate that
these callbacks do not block.

The implementation is steered toward an expensive slowpath, such as
after the oom reaper has grabbed mm->mmap_sem of a still alive oom
victim.

[rientjes@google.com: mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end() can also call the invalidate_range() must not block, fix comment]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1801091339570.240101@chino.kir.corp.google.com
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make mm_has_blockable_invalidate_notifiers() return bool, use rwsem_is_locked()]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1712141329500.74052@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini 
Acked-by: Christian König 
Acked-by: Dimitri Sivanich 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Oded Gabbay 
Cc: Alex Deucher 
Cc: David Airlie 
Cc: Joerg Roedel 
Cc: Doug Ledford 
Cc: Jani Nikula 
Cc: Mike Marciniszyn 
Cc: Sean Hefty 
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky 
Cc: Jérôme Glisse 
Cc: Radim Krčmář 
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/mmu_notifier: avoid call to invalidate_range() in range_end()

2017-11-16T02:21:03+00:00

This is an optimization patch that only affect mmu_notifier users which
rely on the invalidate_range() callback.  This patch avoids calling that
callback twice in a row from inside __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end

Existing pattern (before this patch):
    mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start()
        pte/pmd/pud_clear_flush_notify()
            mmu_notifier_invalidate_range()
    mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end()
        mmu_notifier_invalidate_range()

New pattern (after this patch):
    mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start()
        pte/pmd/pud_clear_flush_notify()
            mmu_notifier_invalidate_range()
    mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_only_end()

We call the invalidate_range callback after clearing the page table
under the page table lock and we skip the call to invalidate_range
inside the __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end() function.

Idea from Andrea Arcangeli

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171017031003.7481-3-jglisse@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Joerg Roedel 
Cc: Suravee Suthikulpanit 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Alistair Popple 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Stephen Rothwell 
Cc: Andrew Donnellan 
Cc: Nadav Amit 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/mmu_notifier: avoid double notification when it is useless

2017-11-16T02:21:03+00:00

This patch only affects users of mmu_notifier->invalidate_range callback
which are device drivers related to ATS/PASID, CAPI, IOMMUv2, SVM ...
and it is an optimization for those users.  Everyone else is unaffected
by it.

When clearing a pte/pmd we are given a choice to notify the event under
the page table lock (notify version of *_clear_flush helpers do call the
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range).  But that notification is not necessary
in all cases.

This patch removes almost all cases where it is useless to have a call
to mmu_notifier_invalidate_range before
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end.  It also adds documentation in all
those cases explaining why.

Below is a more in depth analysis of why this is fine to do this:

For secondary TLB (non CPU TLB) like IOMMU TLB or device TLB (when
device use thing like ATS/PASID to get the IOMMU to walk the CPU page
table to access a process virtual address space).  There is only 2 cases
when you need to notify those secondary TLB while holding page table
lock when clearing a pte/pmd:

  A) page backing address is free before mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end
  B) a page table entry is updated to point to a new page (COW, write fault
     on zero page, __replace_page(), ...)

Case A is obvious you do not want to take the risk for the device to write
to a page that might now be used by something completely different.

Case B is more subtle. For correctness it requires the following sequence
to happen:
  - take page table lock
  - clear page table entry and notify (pmd/pte_huge_clear_flush_notify())
  - set page table entry to point to new page

If clearing the page table entry is not followed by a notify before setting
the new pte/pmd value then you can break memory model like C11 or C++11 for
the device.

Consider the following scenario (device use a feature similar to ATS/
PASID):

Two address addrA and addrB such that |addrA - addrB| >= PAGE_SIZE we
assume they are write protected for COW (other case of B apply too).

[Time N] -----------------------------------------------------------------
CPU-thread-0  {try to write to addrA}
CPU-thread-1  {try to write to addrB}
CPU-thread-2  {}
CPU-thread-3  {}
DEV-thread-0  {read addrA and populate device TLB}
DEV-thread-2  {read addrB and populate device TLB}
[Time N+1] ---------------------------------------------------------------
CPU-thread-0  {COW_step0: {mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(addrA)}}
CPU-thread-1  {COW_step0: {mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(addrB)}}
CPU-thread-2  {}
CPU-thread-3  {}
DEV-thread-0  {}
DEV-thread-2  {}
[Time N+2] ---------------------------------------------------------------
CPU-thread-0  {COW_step1: {update page table point to new page for addrA}}
CPU-thread-1  {COW_step1: {update page table point to new page for addrB}}
CPU-thread-2  {}
CPU-thread-3  {}
DEV-thread-0  {}
DEV-thread-2  {}
[Time N+3] ---------------------------------------------------------------
CPU-thread-0  {preempted}
CPU-thread-1  {preempted}
CPU-thread-2  {write to addrA which is a write to new page}
CPU-thread-3  {}
DEV-thread-0  {}
DEV-thread-2  {}
[Time N+3] ---------------------------------------------------------------
CPU-thread-0  {preempted}
CPU-thread-1  {preempted}
CPU-thread-2  {}
CPU-thread-3  {write to addrB which is a write to new page}
DEV-thread-0  {}
DEV-thread-2  {}
[Time N+4] ---------------------------------------------------------------
CPU-thread-0  {preempted}
CPU-thread-1  {COW_step3: {mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(addrB)}}
CPU-thread-2  {}
CPU-thread-3  {}
DEV-thread-0  {}
DEV-thread-2  {}
[Time N+5] ---------------------------------------------------------------
CPU-thread-0  {preempted}
CPU-thread-1  {}
CPU-thread-2  {}
CPU-thread-3  {}
DEV-thread-0  {read addrA from old page}
DEV-thread-2  {read addrB from new page}

So here because at time N+2 the clear page table entry was not pair with a
notification to invalidate the secondary TLB, the device see the new value
for addrB before seing the new value for addrA.  This break total memory
ordering for the device.

When changing a pte to write protect or to point to a new write protected
page with same content (KSM) it is ok to delay invalidate_range callback
to mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end() outside the page table lock.  This
is true even if the thread doing page table update is preempted right
after releasing page table lock before calling
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end

Thanks to Andrea for thinking of a problematic scenario for COW.

[jglisse@redhat.com: v2]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171017031003.7481-2-jglisse@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170901173011.10745-1-jglisse@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Nadav Amit 
Cc: Joerg Roedel 
Cc: Suravee Suthikulpanit 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Alistair Popple 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Stephen Rothwell 
Cc: Andrew Donnellan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds