From: Roland Dreier <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Right now, we always pass write==1 to get_user_pages(), even when we
only intend to read the memory. We pass force==1 if we're going for
read-only and force==0 if we want writable. The reasoning behind this
seems to be contained in this out-of-tree changelog from 2005:
Always ask get_user_pages() for writable pages, but pass force=1
if the consumer has only asked for read-only pages. This fixes a
problem registering memory that has just been allocated but not
touched yet, while allowing registration of read-only memory to
continue to work.
However, I don't think the mm works like this today, and indeed GUP
will fault in pages for an untouched read-only mapping just fine with
write and force set to 0. In fact, always passing 1 for write causes
problems with modern kernels, because we end up hitting the "early
C-O-W break" case in __do_fault(), even for read-only mappings where
this makes no sense.
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
This patch comes from me trying to do userspace RDMA on a memory
region exported from a character driver and mapped with
mmap(... PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE ...)
The character driver has a trivial mmap method that just sets vm_ops
and and equally trivial fault method that essentially just does
vmf->page = vmalloc_to_page(buf + (vmf->pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT));
ie the most elementary way to export a vmalloc'ed buffer to userspace.
However, when I tried doing
ibv_reg_mr(... IBV_ACCESS_REMOTE_READ ...)
in userspace on that mmap region, I found that COW was happening and
so neither userspace nor the registered memory ended up pointing at
the kernel buffer anymore, exactly because of the COW in __do_fault()
I mention in the changelog above.
The patch below fixes my test case, and doesn't seem to break any of
the ibverbs examples and other simple tests of userspace verbs that I
tried. But that's far from an exhaustive test suite.
I'd definitely appreciate comments from MM experts here, since I'm not
positive of my understand of G-U-P and friends, and I don't want to
apps because this is wrong in some special case I didn't try.
Also testing from anyone with an RDMA app that does anything at all
fancy with memory allocation or registration would be helpful.
Thanks!
PS Let me know if I didn't go on long enough about this one-line patch
and I can write some more.
drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c
index 71f0c0f..fb5abd3 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ struct ib_umem *ib_umem_get(struct ib_ucontext *context, unsigned long addr,
ret = get_user_pages(current, current->mm, cur_base,
min_t(unsigned long, npages,
PAGE_SIZE / sizeof (struct page *)),
- 1, !umem->writable, page_list, vma_list);
+ umem->writable, 0, page_list, vma_list);
if (ret < 0)
goto out;
--
1.7.8.3
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