On 2019/8/13 下午7:57, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 04:31:07PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
What kind of issues do you see? Spinlock is to synchronize GUP with MMU
notifier in this series.
A GUP that can't sleep can't pagefault which makes it a really weird
pattern
My understanding is __get_user_pages_fast() assumes caller can fail or
have fallback. And we have graceful fallback to copy_{to|from}_user().
Btw, back to the original question. May I know why synchronize_rcu() is not
suitable? Consider:
We already went over this. You'd need to determine it doesn't somehow
deadlock the mm on reclaim paths. Maybe it is OK, the rcq_gq_wq is
marked WQ_MEM_RECLAIM at least..
Yes, will take a look at this.
I also think Michael was concerned about the latency spikes a long RCU
delay would cause.
I don't think it's a real problem consider MMU notifier could be
preempted or blocked.
Thanks
Jason
