Re: put_user_page() question

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On Sun, Mar 03, 2019 at 06:00:35AM +0000, Haggai Eran wrote:
> On 3/2/2019 9:54 PM, Ira Weiny wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 09:25:42PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> >> On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 10:28:13AM -0800, Ira Weiny wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 05:22:44PM -0800, John Hubbard wrote:
> >>>> On 2/26/19 5:10 PM, Ira Weiny wrote:
> >>>>> John,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> With your put_user_page patchset, Is there a reason you don't call
> >>>>> put_user_page() in the 2 spots shown in the diff below?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> And Jason, in the second case I find it odd that the driver needs to clear the
> >>>>> invalidate_range() callback prior to the final ib_umem_odp_unmap_dma_pages()
> >>>>> call such that put_user_page() is called.  I am correct that this is how the
> >>>>> pages finally get put in the end?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Ira
> >>>>>
> >>>>> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/umem_odp.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/umem_odp.c
> >>>>> index 730b2fa0942e..a63f5eda02ca 100644
> >>>>> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/umem_odp.c
> >>>>> @@ -687,7 +687,7 @@ int ib_umem_odp_map_dma_pages(struct ib_umem_odp *umem_odp, u64 user_virt,
> >>>>>                  if (ret < 0) {
> >>>>>                          /* Release left over pages when handling errors. */
> >>>>>                          for (++j; j < npages; ++j)
> >>>>> -                               put_page(local_page_list[j]);
> >>>>> +                               put_user_page(local_page_list[j]);
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi Ira,
> >>>>
> >>>> This one I somehow just overlooked. It definitely should have been a put_user_page()
> >>>> call.
> >>>>
> >>>>>                          break;
> >>>>>                  }
> >>>>>          }
> >>>>> @@ -750,7 +750,7 @@ void ib_umem_odp_unmap_dma_pages(struct ib_umem_odp *umem_odp, u64 virt,
> >>>>>                          }
> >>>>>                          /* on demand pinning support */
> >>>>>                          if (!umem->context->invalidate_range)
> >>>>> -                               put_page(page);
> >>>>> +                               put_user_page(page);
> >>>>   
> >>>>
> >>>> ...and this one, I didn't recognize as being part of the pool of pages that
> >>>> were acquired via get_user_pages().  But assuming that it is acquired via
> >>>> get_user_pages(), then of course it also should be changed to put_user_page(),
> >>>> you're right.
> >>>
> >>> Yes I'm 99% sure this matches up with the get_user_pages_remote() in
> >>> ib_umem_odp_map_dma_pages().  But the check for the
> >>> invalidate_range() callback
> >>
> >> invalidate_range does not change, it always set to something if the
> >> driver supports ODP, and since this function accepts a ib_umem_odp it
> >> cannot be called on non-ODP umem's..
> >>
> >> In this case I assume the code can never be called??
> > 
> > Ok, that is what I thought...  So where is the matching put_[user_]page
> > (currently put_page but John's change would be user page) for the
> > get_user_pages_remote() call?  (CC Haggai)
> 
> I also think this code is never called. IIRC, in order to split the 
> on-demand paging patch-set we had an intermediate mode called "on-demand 
> pinning", where the driver would only support page faults, but not 
> invalidations. In this mode the page references are taken when a page 
> fault occurs, but are held until the MR is released. As far as I know no 
> driver uses this mode, so it is probably safe to remove it.
> 
> > 
> > I think this is it and I think it is a bug to have the check here.  Or perhaps
> > the check should be:
> > 
> > 
> > 	if (umem->context->invalidate_range)
> > 		...
> > ???
> 
> The thought behind this interface was that invalidate_range callback 
> would either be set or cleared during the per mm or the umem creation, 
> so it is stable between the map and unmap calls. If it was set during 
> map, then the page reference is immediately released there, so there's 
> no need for another put_page in unmap.

I'm missing something.  I don't see any check for the invalidate_range callback
in ib_umem_odp_map_dma_pages().  So I'm still missing when the pages which get
pinned by the GUP_remote() call there are "put".

It seems like the ib_umem_odp_[un]map_dma_pages() should mirror each other.

Ira

> 
> Regards,
> Haggai



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