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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 hmm 00/11] Add mmu_notifier_get/put for managing mmu
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On 8/6/19 4:15 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
> 
> This series introduces a new registration flow for mmu_notifiers based on
> the idea that the user would like to get a single refcounted piece of
> memory for a mm, keyed to its use.
> 
> For instance many users of mmu_notifiers use an interval tree or similar
> to dispatch notifications to some object. There are many objects but only
> one notifier subscription per mm holding the tree.
> 
> Of the 12 places that call mmu_notifier_register:
>   - 7 are maintaining some kind of obvious mapping of mm_struct to
>     mmu_notifier registration, ie in some linked list or hash table. Of
>     the 7 this series converts 4 (gru, hmm, RDMA, radeon)
> 
>   - 3 (hfi1, gntdev, vhost) are registering multiple notifiers, but each
>     one immediately does some VA range filtering, ie with an interval tree.
>     These would be better with a global subsystem-wide range filter and
>     could convert to this API.
> 
>   - 2 (kvm, amd_iommu) are deliberately using a single mm at a time, and
>     really can't use this API. One of the intel-svm's modes is also in this
>     list
> 
> The 3/7 unconverted drivers are:
>   - intel-svm
>     This driver tracks mm's in a global linked list 'global_svm_list'
>     and would benefit from this API.
> 
>     Its flow is a bit complex, since it also wants a set of non-shared
>     notifiers.
> 
>   - i915_gem_usrptr
>     This driver tracks mm's in a per-device hash
>     table (dev_priv->mm_structs), but only has an optional use of
>     mmu_notifiers.  Since it still seems to need the hash table it is
>     difficult to convert.
> 
>   - amdkfd/kfd_process
>     This driver is using a global SRCU hash table to track mm's
> 
>     The control flow here is very complicated and the driver is relying on
>     this hash table to be fast on the ioctl syscall path.
> 
>     It would definitely benefit, but only if the ioctl path didn't need to
>     do the search so often.
> 
> This series is already entangled with patches in the hmm & RDMA tree and
> will require some git topic branches for the RDMA ODP stuff. I intend for
> it to go through the hmm tree.
> 
> There is a git version here:
> 
> https://github.com/jgunthorpe/linux/commits/mmu_notifier
> 
> Which has the required pre-patches for the RDMA ODP conversion that are
> still being reviewed.
> 
> Jason Gunthorpe (11):
>    mm/mmu_notifiers: hoist do_mmu_notifier_register down_write to the
>      caller
>    mm/mmu_notifiers: do not speculatively allocate a mmu_notifier_mm
>    mm/mmu_notifiers: add a get/put scheme for the registration
>    misc/sgi-gru: use mmu_notifier_get/put for struct gru_mm_struct
>    hmm: use mmu_notifier_get/put for 'struct hmm'
>    RDMA/odp: use mmu_notifier_get/put for 'struct ib_ucontext_per_mm'
>    RDMA/odp: remove ib_ucontext from ib_umem
>    drm/radeon: use mmu_notifier_get/put for struct radeon_mn
>    drm/amdkfd: fix a use after free race with mmu_notifer unregister
>    drm/amdkfd: use mmu_notifier_put
>    mm/mmu_notifiers: remove unregister_no_release
> 
>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_drv.c  |   1 +
>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_priv.h    |   3 -
>   drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_process.c |  88 ++++-----
>   drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drm.c    |   3 +
>   drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon.h          |   3 -
>   drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_device.c   |   2 -
>   drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_drv.c      |   2 +
>   drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_mn.c       | 157 ++++------------
>   drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c           |   4 +-
>   drivers/infiniband/core/umem_odp.c       | 183 ++++++------------
>   drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c     |   3 -
>   drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c    |   1 +
>   drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c        |   5 -
>   drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufile.c           |   1 +
>   drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutables.h         |   2 -
>   drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grutlbpurge.c       |  84 +++------
>   include/linux/hmm.h                      |  12 +-
>   include/linux/mm_types.h                 |   6 -
>   include/linux/mmu_notifier.h             |  40 +++-
>   include/rdma/ib_umem.h                   |   2 +-
>   include/rdma/ib_umem_odp.h               |  10 +-
>   include/rdma/ib_verbs.h                  |   3 -
>   kernel/fork.c                            |   1 -
>   mm/hmm.c                                 | 121 +++---------
>   mm/mmu_notifier.c                        | 230 +++++++++++++++++------
>   25 files changed, 408 insertions(+), 559 deletions(-)

For the core MM, HMM, and nouveau changes you can add:
Tested-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>