Re: [PATCH] dma-resv: lockdep-prime address_space->i_mmap_rwsem for dma-resv

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On 7/28/20 3:58 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
GPU drivers need this in their shrinkers, to be able to throw out
mmap'ed buffers. Note that we also need dma_resv_lock in shrinkers,
but that loop is resolved by trylocking in shrinkers.

So full hierarchy is now (ignore some of the other branches we already
have primed):

mmap_read_lock -> dma_resv -> shrinkers -> i_mmap_lock_write

I hope that's not inconsistent with anything mm or fs does, adding
relevant people.

Looks OK to me. The mapping_dirty_helpers run under the i_mmap_lock, but don't allocate any memory AFAICT.

Since huge page-table-entry splitting may happen under the i_mmap_lock from unmap_mapping_range() it might be worth figuring out how new page directory pages are allocated, though.

/Thomas






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