Re: [PATCH v4 29/33] x86/mm: try VMA lock-based page fault handling first

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On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 7:27 AM Holger Hoffstätte
<holger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2023-07-06 00:55, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 5, 2023 at 3:37 PM Holger Hoffstätte
> > <holger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> Jiri, Holger, would you be able to try
> >>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230705171213.2843068-2-surenb@xxxxxxxxxx/
> >>> and see if your issues still exist?
> >>
> >> Just in time! Not 2 minutes ago I finished rebuilding 6.4.2 + the last version of
> >> your patches on a second machine (old Intel Sandy Bridge workstation) to be my
> >> crash test dummy. I removed the BROKEN dependency in mm/Kconfig, manually set
> >> PER_VMA_LOCK=y and ... it seems to work?! Boots fine, Firefox seems to work
> >> (but no exhaustive tests yet). I will also rerun a few reboot laps, just to
> >> exercise this a bit harder and see if something comes up.
> >>
> >> Tomorrow I'll also try again on my Zen2 Thinkpad and will report back.
> >>
> >> Fingers crossed!
> >
> > Thanks! This is promising.
>
> Indeed it was, and still is. :)
>
> This morning I wrangled 6.4.2 + v4 of the patches into all my machines,
> enabled PER_VMA_LOCK=y, removed BROKEN and so far everything has been humming
> along just fine. One machine has been compiling for several hours without issue.
> My Zen2 thinkpad - which was previously really unhappy with enabled PER_VMA_LOCK -
> has booted a few times without hiccup, and Firefox has been happily roaming the
> interwebs for several hours as well. \o/

This is great! Thanks so much for verifying!
Andrew, if it's not too late, maybe we can drop the BROKEN dependency
now that we have this confirmation?

>
> cheers
> Holger





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