On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 09:34:29PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > > On 2019/7/23 下午6:27, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > Yes, since there could be multiple co-current invalidation requests. We need > > > count them to make sure we don't pin wrong pages. > > > > > > > > > > I also wonder about ordering. kvm has this: > > > > /* > > > > * Used to check for invalidations in progress, of the pfn that is > > > > * returned by pfn_to_pfn_prot below. > > > > */ > > > > mmu_seq = kvm->mmu_notifier_seq; > > > > /* > > > > * Ensure the read of mmu_notifier_seq isn't reordered with PTE reads in > > > > * gfn_to_pfn_prot() (which calls get_user_pages()), so that we don't > > > > * risk the page we get a reference to getting unmapped before we have a > > > > * chance to grab the mmu_lock without mmu_notifier_retry() noticing. > > > > * > > > > * This smp_rmb() pairs with the effective smp_wmb() of the combination > > > > * of the pte_unmap_unlock() after the PTE is zapped, and the > > > > * spin_lock() in kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_<page|range_end>() before > > > > * mmu_notifier_seq is incremented. > > > > */ > > > > smp_rmb(); > > > > > > > > does this apply to us? Can't we use a seqlock instead so we do > > > > not need to worry? > > > I'm not familiar with kvm MMU internals, but we do everything under of > > > mmu_lock. > > > > > > Thanks > > I don't think this helps at all. > > > > There's no lock between checking the invalidate counter and > > get user pages fast within vhost_map_prefetch. So it's possible > > that get user pages fast reads PTEs speculatively before > > invalidate is read. > > > > -- > > > In vhost_map_prefetch() we do: > > spin_lock(&vq->mmu_lock); > > ... > > err = -EFAULT; > if (vq->invalidate_count) > goto err; > > ... > > npinned = __get_user_pages_fast(uaddr->uaddr, npages, > uaddr->write, pages); > > ... > > spin_unlock(&vq->mmu_lock); > > Is this not sufficient? > > Thanks So what orders __get_user_pages_fast wrt invalidate_count read? -- MST
