Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Convert WARNs during userptr revoke to SIGBUS

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On 09/10/15 18:26, Chris Wilson wrote:
On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 07:14:02PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 10:03:14AM +0100, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:

On 09/10/15 09:55, Daniel Vetter wrote:
On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 09:40:53AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 09:48:01AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 10:45:47AM +0100, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
The concern is that this isn't how SIG_SEGV works, it's a signal the
thread who made the invalid access gets directly. You never get a SIG_SEGV
for bad access someone else has made. So essentially it's new ABI.

SIGBUS. For which the answer is yes, you can and do get SIGBUS for
actions taken by other processes.

Oh right I always forget that SIGBUS aliases with SIGIO. Anyway if
userspace wants SIGIO we just need to provide it with a pollable fd and
then it can use fcntl to make that happen. That's imo a much better api
than unconditionally throwing around signals. Also we already have the
reset stats ioctl to tell userspace that its gpu context is toats. If
anyone wants that to be pollable (or even send SIGIO) I think we should
extend that, with all the usual "needs userspace&igt" stuff on top.

I don't see that this notification can be optional. Process is confused
about its memory map use so should die. :)

This is not a GPU error/hang - this is the process doing stupid things.

MMU notifiers do not support decision making otherwise we could say
-ETXTBUSY or something on munmap, but we can't. Not even sure that it would
help in all cases, would have to fail clone as well and who knows what.

So what happens if the gpu just keeps using the memory? It'll all be
horribly undefined behaviour and eventually it'll die on an -EFAULT in
execbuf, but does anything else bad happen?

We don't see an EFAULT unless a miracle occurs, and the stale pages
continue to be read/written by other processes (as well as the client).
Horribly undefined behaviour with a misinformation leak.

What other processes? Pages will still be referenced so won't be reused so there is not information leak across unrelated processes. Unless you meant ones involved in object sharing?

But we could improve the revoke mechanism I suppose by marking the object and then revoking it at the next opportunity?

Regards,

Tvrtko
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