Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754645AbbEGKvh (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2015 06:51:37 -0400 Received: from e06smtp12.uk.ibm.com ([195.75.94.108]:35543 "EHLO e06smtp12.uk.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750784AbbEGKvf (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 May 2015 06:51:35 -0400 Message-ID: <554B43AA.1050605@de.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 12:51:22 +0200 From: Christian Borntraeger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton CC: David Hildenbrand , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org, yang.shi@windriver.com, bigeasy@linutronix.de, benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, mst@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, David.Laight@ACULAB.COM, hughd@google.com, hocko@suse.cz, ralf@linux-mips.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, airlied@linux.ie, daniel.vetter@intel.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 00/15] decouple pagefault_disable() from preempt_disable() References: <1430934639-2131-1-git-send-email-dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20150506150158.0a927470007e8ea5f3278956@linux-foundation.org> <20150507094819.GC4734@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20150507094819.GC4734@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 15050710-0009-0000-0000-00000411FAB1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1721 Lines: 56 Am 07.05.2015 um 11:48 schrieb Ingo Molnar: > > * Andrew Morton wrote: > >> On Wed, 6 May 2015 19:50:24 +0200 David Hildenbrand wrote: >> >>> As Peter asked me to also do the decoupling in one shot, this is >>> the new series. >>> >>> I recently discovered that might_fault() doesn't call might_sleep() >>> anymore. Therefore bugs like: >>> >>> spin_lock(&lock); >>> rc = copy_to_user(...); >>> spin_unlock(&lock); >>> >>> would not be detected with CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP. The code was >>> changed to disable false positives for code like: >>> >>> pagefault_disable(); >>> rc = copy_to_user(...); >>> pagefault_enable(); >>> >>> Whereby the caller wants do deal with failures. >> >> hm, that was a significant screwup. I wonder how many bugs we >> subsequently added. > > So I'm wondering what the motivation was to allow things like: > > pagefault_disable(); > rc = copy_to_user(...); > pagefault_enable(); > > and to declare it a false positive? > > AFAICS most uses are indeed atomic: > > pagefault_disable(); > ret = futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(curval, uaddr, uval, newval); > pagefault_enable(); > > so why not make it explicitly atomic again? Hmm, I am probably misreading that, but it sound as you suggest to go back to Davids first proposal https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/25/436 which makes might_fault to also contain might_sleep. Correct? Christian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/