Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752347AbdF0HGs (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jun 2017 03:06:48 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:36566 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752159AbdF0HGr (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jun 2017 03:06:47 -0400 Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 09:06:43 +0200 From: Michal Hocko To: Prakash Sangappa Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrea Arcangeli , Mike Rapoport , Mike Kravetz , Dave Hansen , Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] userfaultfd: Add feature to request for a signal delivery Message-ID: <20170627070643.GA28078@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <9363561f-a9cd-7ab6-9c11-ab9a99dc89f1@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9363561f-a9cd-7ab6-9c11-ab9a99dc89f1@oracle.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 4800 Lines: 115 This is an user visible API so let's CC linux-api mailing list. On Mon 26-06-17 12:46:13, Prakash Sangappa wrote: > In some cases, userfaultfd mechanism should just deliver a SIGBUS signal > to the faulting process, instead of the page-fault event. Dealing with > page-fault event using a monitor thread can be an overhead in these > cases. For example applications like the database could use the signaling > mechanism for robustness purpose. this is rather confusing. What is the reason that the monitor would be slower than signal delivery and handling? > Database uses hugetlbfs for performance reason. Files on hugetlbfs > filesystem are created and huge pages allocated using fallocate() API. > Pages are deallocated/freed using fallocate() hole punching support. > These files are mmapped and accessed by many processes as shared memory. > The database keeps track of which offsets in the hugetlbfs file have > pages allocated. > > Any access to mapped address over holes in the file, which can occur due > to bugs in the application, is considered invalid and expect the process > to simply receive a SIGBUS. However, currently when a hole in the file is > accessed via the mapped address, kernel/mm attempts to automatically > allocate a page at page fault time, resulting in implicitly filling the > hole in the file. This may not be the desired behavior for applications > like the database that want to explicitly manage page allocations of > hugetlbfs files. So you register UFFD_FEATURE_SIGBUS on each region tha you are unmapping and than just let those offenders die? > Using userfaultfd mechanism, with this support to get a signal, database > application can prevent pages from being allocated implicitly when > processes access mapped address over holes in the file. > > This patch adds the feature to request for a SIGBUS signal to userfaultfd > mechanism. > > See following for previous discussion about the database requirement > leading to this proposal as suggested by Andrea. > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg129224.html Please make those requirements part of the changelog. > Signed-off-by: Prakash > --- > fs/userfaultfd.c | 5 +++++ > include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h | 10 +++++++++- > 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/fs/userfaultfd.c b/fs/userfaultfd.c > index 1d622f2..5686d6d2 100644 > --- a/fs/userfaultfd.c > +++ b/fs/userfaultfd.c > @@ -371,6 +371,11 @@ int handle_userfault(struct vm_fault *vmf, unsigned > long reason) > VM_BUG_ON(reason & ~(VM_UFFD_MISSING|VM_UFFD_WP)); > VM_BUG_ON(!(reason & VM_UFFD_MISSING) ^ !!(reason & VM_UFFD_WP)); > > + if (ctx->features & UFFD_FEATURE_SIGBUS) { > + goto out; > + } > + > /* > * If it's already released don't get it. This avoids to loop > * in __get_user_pages if userfaultfd_release waits on the > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h > b/include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h > index 3b05953..d39d5db 100644 > --- a/include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h > @@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ > UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_REMOVE | \ > UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_UNMAP | \ > UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_HUGETLBFS | \ > - UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_SHMEM) > + UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_SHMEM | \ > + UFFD_FEATURE_SIGBUS) > #define UFFD_API_IOCTLS \ > ((__u64)1 << _UFFDIO_REGISTER | \ > (__u64)1 << _UFFDIO_UNREGISTER | \ > @@ -153,6 +154,12 @@ struct uffdio_api { > * UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_SHMEM works the same as > * UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_HUGETLBFS, but it applies to shmem > * (i.e. tmpfs and other shmem based APIs). > + * > + * UFFD_FEATURE_SIGBUS feature means no page-fault > + * (UFFD_EVENT_PAGEFAULT) event will be delivered, instead > + * a SIGBUS signal will be sent to the faulting process. > + * The application process can enable this behavior by adding > + * it to uffdio_api.features. > */ > #define UFFD_FEATURE_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_WP (1<<0) > #define UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_FORK (1<<1) > @@ -161,6 +168,7 @@ struct uffdio_api { > #define UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_HUGETLBFS (1<<4) > #define UFFD_FEATURE_MISSING_SHMEM (1<<5) > #define UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_UNMAP (1<<6) > +#define UFFD_FEATURE_SIGBUS (1<<7) > __u64 features; > > __u64 ioctls; > -- > 2.7.4 > > -- > To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in > the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, > see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . > Don't email: email@kvack.org -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs