2019-08-05 16:04:10

by Sergey Senozhatsky

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Subject: [PATCHv2 0/3] convert i915 to new mount API

Hello,

Convert i915 to a new mount API and fix i915_gemfs_init() kernel Oops.

It also appears that we need to EXPORTs put_filesystem(), so i915
can properly put filesystem after it is done with kern_mount().

v2:
- export put_filesystem() [Chris]
- always put_filesystem() in i915_gemfs_init() [Chris]
- improve i915_gemfs_init() error message [Chris]

Sergey Senozhatsky (3):
fs: export put_filesystem()
i915: convert to new mount API
i915: do not leak module ref counter

drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gemfs.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++--------
fs/filesystems.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

--
2.22.0


2019-08-05 16:04:25

by Sergey Senozhatsky

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Subject: [PATCHv2 1/3] fs: export put_filesystem()

Modules can use get_fs_type(), which is exported, but are unable
to put_filesystem(). Export it and let modules to also decrement
corresponding file systems' reference counters.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>
---
fs/filesystems.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/filesystems.c b/fs/filesystems.c
index 9135646e41ac..02669839b584 100644
--- a/fs/filesystems.c
+++ b/fs/filesystems.c
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ void put_filesystem(struct file_system_type *fs)
{
module_put(fs->owner);
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(put_filesystem);

static struct file_system_type **find_filesystem(const char *name, unsigned len)
{
--
2.22.0

2019-08-05 16:05:03

by Sergey Senozhatsky

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Subject: [PATCHv2 3/3] i915: do not leak module ref counter

put_filesystem() must follow get_fs_type().

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gemfs.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gemfs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gemfs.c
index feedc9242072..93ac365ce9ce 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gemfs.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gemfs.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ int i915_gemfs_init(struct drm_i915_private *i915)
return -ENODEV;

gemfs = kern_mount(type);
+ put_filesystem(type);
if (IS_ERR(gemfs))
return PTR_ERR(gemfs);

--
2.22.0

2019-08-05 16:05:57

by Sergey Senozhatsky

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Subject: [PATCHv2 2/3] i915: convert to new mount API

tmpfs does not set ->remount_fs() anymore and its users need
to be converted to new mount API.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
PF: supervisor instruction fetch in kernel mode
PF: error_code(0x0010) - not-present page
RIP: 0010:0x0
Code: Bad RIP value.
Call Trace:
i915_gemfs_init+0x6e/0xa0 [i915]
i915_gem_init_early+0x76/0x90 [i915]
i915_driver_probe+0x30a/0x1640 [i915]
? kernfs_activate+0x5a/0x80
? kernfs_add_one+0xdd/0x130
pci_device_probe+0x9e/0x110
really_probe+0xce/0x230
driver_probe_device+0x4b/0xc0
device_driver_attach+0x4e/0x60
__driver_attach+0x47/0xb0
? device_driver_attach+0x60/0x60
bus_for_each_dev+0x61/0x90
bus_add_driver+0x167/0x1b0
driver_register+0x67/0xaa

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gemfs.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gemfs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gemfs.c
index 099f3397aada..feedc9242072 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gemfs.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gemfs.c
@@ -7,14 +7,17 @@
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/mount.h>
#include <linux/pagemap.h>
+#include <linux/fs_context.h>

#include "i915_drv.h"
#include "i915_gemfs.h"

int i915_gemfs_init(struct drm_i915_private *i915)
{
+ struct fs_context *fc = NULL;
struct file_system_type *type;
struct vfsmount *gemfs;
+ bool ok = true;

type = get_fs_type("tmpfs");
if (!type)
@@ -36,18 +39,29 @@ int i915_gemfs_init(struct drm_i915_private *i915)
struct super_block *sb = gemfs->mnt_sb;
/* FIXME: Disabled until we get W/A for read BW issue. */
char options[] = "huge=never";
- int flags = 0;
- int err;
-
- err = sb->s_op->remount_fs(sb, &flags, options);
- if (err) {
- kern_unmount(gemfs);
- return err;
- }
+
+ ok = false;
+ fc = fs_context_for_reconfigure(sb->s_root, 0, 0);
+ if (IS_ERR(fc))
+ goto out;
+
+ if (!fc->ops->parse_monolithic ||
+ fc->ops->parse_monolithic(fc, options))
+ goto out;
+
+ if (fc->ops->reconfigure && !fc->ops->reconfigure(fc))
+ ok = true;
}

+out:
+ if (!ok)
+ dev_err(i915->drm.dev,
+ "Unable to reconfigure %s. %s\n",
+ "shmemfs for preferred allocation strategy",
+ "Continuing, but performance may suffer");
+ if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(fc))
+ put_fs_context(fc);
i915->mm.gemfs = gemfs;
-
return 0;
}

--
2.22.0

2019-08-05 18:13:59

by Al Viro

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Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/3] i915: convert to new mount API

On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 01:03:06AM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> tmpfs does not set ->remount_fs() anymore and its users need
> to be converted to new mount API.

Could you explain why the devil do you bother with remount at all?
Why not pass the right options when mounting the damn thing?

2019-08-05 18:31:04

by Al Viro

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Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/3] i915: convert to new mount API

On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 07:12:55PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 01:03:06AM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > tmpfs does not set ->remount_fs() anymore and its users need
> > to be converted to new mount API.
>
> Could you explain why the devil do you bother with remount at all?
> Why not pass the right options when mounting the damn thing?

... and while we are at it, I really wonder what's going on with
that gemfs thing - among the other things, this is the only
user of shmem_file_setup_with_mnt(). Sure, you want your own
options, but that brings another question - is there any reason
for having the huge=... per-superblock rather than per-file?

After all, the readers of ->huge in mm/shmem.c are
mm/shmem.c:582: (shmem_huge == SHMEM_HUGE_FORCE || sbinfo->huge) &&
is_huge_enabled(), sbinfo is an explicit argument

mm/shmem.c:1799: switch (sbinfo->huge) {
shmem_getpage_gfp(), sbinfo comes from inode

mm/shmem.c:2113: if (SHMEM_SB(sb)->huge == SHMEM_HUGE_NEVER)
shmem_get_unmapped_area(), sb comes from file

mm/shmem.c:3531: if (sbinfo->huge)
mm/shmem.c:3532: seq_printf(seq, ",huge=%s", shmem_format_huge(sbinfo->huge));
->show_options()
mm/shmem.c:3880: switch (sbinfo->huge) {
shmem_huge_enabled(), sbinfo comes from an inode

And the only caller of is_huge_enabled() is shmem_getattr(), with sbinfo
picked from inode.

So is there any reason why the hugepage policy can't be per-file, with
the current being overridable default?

2019-08-05 19:37:12

by Sedat Dilek

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Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 0/3] convert i915 to new mount API

On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 6:05 PM Sergey Senozhatsky
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Convert i915 to a new mount API and fix i915_gemfs_init() kernel Oops.
>
> It also appears that we need to EXPORTs put_filesystem(), so i915
> can properly put filesystem after it is done with kern_mount().
>
> v2:
> - export put_filesystem() [Chris]
> - always put_filesystem() in i915_gemfs_init() [Chris]
> - improve i915_gemfs_init() error message [Chris]
>
> Sergey Senozhatsky (3):
> fs: export put_filesystem()
> i915: convert to new mount API
> i915: do not leak module ref counter
>

Fee free to add:

Reported-by: Sedat Dilek <[email protected]>

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+icZUXh068m8UFeHDXCKDi0YfL2Z=WoONy7J7DJLqAT1CZ+rQ@mail.gmail.com/

> drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gemfs.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++--------
> fs/filesystems.c | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.22.0
>

2019-08-05 23:35:24

by Al Viro

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Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/3] i915: convert to new mount API

On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 07:12:55PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 01:03:06AM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > tmpfs does not set ->remount_fs() anymore and its users need
> > to be converted to new mount API.
>
> Could you explain why the devil do you bother with remount at all?
> Why not pass the right options when mounting the damn thing?

Incidentally, the only remaining modular user of get_fs_type() is the
same i915_gemfs.c. And I wonder if we should aim for unexporting
the damn thing instead of exporting put_filesystem()...

Note that users in tomoyo and apparmor are bogus - they are in the
instances of ill-defined method that needs to be split and moved,
with the lookups (fs type included) replaced with callers passing
the values they look up and will end up using.

IOW, outside of core VFS we have very few legitimate users, and the
one in kernel/trace might be better off as vfs_submount_by_name().

2019-08-06 01:21:23

by Sergey Senozhatsky

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Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/3] i915: convert to new mount API

On (08/05/19 19:12), Al Viro wrote:
[..]
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 01:03:06AM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > tmpfs does not set ->remount_fs() anymore and its users need
> > to be converted to new mount API.
>
> Could you explain why the devil do you bother with remount at all?

I would redirect this question to i915 developers. As far as I know
i915 performance suffers with huge pages enabled.

> Why not pass the right options when mounting the damn thing?

vfs_kern_mount()? It still requires struct file_system_type, which
we need to get and put.

-ss

2019-08-06 07:51:25

by Hugh Dickins

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Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/3] i915: convert to new mount API

On Mon, 5 Aug 2019, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 07:12:55PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 01:03:06AM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > > tmpfs does not set ->remount_fs() anymore and its users need
> > > to be converted to new mount API.
> >
> > Could you explain why the devil do you bother with remount at all?
> > Why not pass the right options when mounting the damn thing?
>
> ... and while we are at it, I really wonder what's going on with
> that gemfs thing - among the other things, this is the only
> user of shmem_file_setup_with_mnt(). Sure, you want your own
> options, but that brings another question - is there any reason
> for having the huge=... per-superblock rather than per-file?

Yes: we want a default for how files of that superblock are to
allocate their pages, without people having to fcntl or advise
each of their files.

Setting aside the weirder options (within_size, advise) and emergency/
testing override (shmem_huge), we want files on an ordinary default
tmpfs (huge=never) to be allocated with small pages (so users with
access to that filesystem will not consume, and will not waste time
and space on consuming, the more valuable huge pages); but files on a
huge=always tmpfs to be allocated with huge pages whenever possible.

Or am I missing your point? Yes, hugeness can certainly be decided
differently per-file, or even per-extent of file. That is already
made possible through "judicious" use of madvise MADV_HUGEPAGE and
MADV_NOHUGEPAGE on mmaps of the file, carried over from anon THP.

Though personally I'm averse to managing "f"objects through
"m"interfaces, which can get ridiculous (notably, MADV_HUGEPAGE works
on the virtual address of a mapping, but the huge-or-not alignment of
that mapping must have been decided previously). In Google we do use
fcntls F_HUGEPAGE and F_NOHUGEPAGE to override on a per-file basis -
one day I'll get to upstreaming those.

Hugh

>
> After all, the readers of ->huge in mm/shmem.c are
> mm/shmem.c:582: (shmem_huge == SHMEM_HUGE_FORCE || sbinfo->huge) &&
> is_huge_enabled(), sbinfo is an explicit argument
>
> mm/shmem.c:1799: switch (sbinfo->huge) {
> shmem_getpage_gfp(), sbinfo comes from inode
>
> mm/shmem.c:2113: if (SHMEM_SB(sb)->huge == SHMEM_HUGE_NEVER)
> shmem_get_unmapped_area(), sb comes from file
>
> mm/shmem.c:3531: if (sbinfo->huge)
> mm/shmem.c:3532: seq_printf(seq, ",huge=%s", shmem_format_huge(sbinfo->huge));
> ->show_options()
> mm/shmem.c:3880: switch (sbinfo->huge) {
> shmem_huge_enabled(), sbinfo comes from an inode
>
> And the only caller of is_huge_enabled() is shmem_getattr(), with sbinfo
> picked from inode.
>
> So is there any reason why the hugepage policy can't be per-file, with
> the current being overridable default?

2019-08-07 06:31:07

by Christoph Hellwig

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Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/3] i915: convert to new mount API

On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 12:50:10AM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Though personally I'm averse to managing "f"objects through
> "m"interfaces, which can get ridiculous (notably, MADV_HUGEPAGE works
> on the virtual address of a mapping, but the huge-or-not alignment of
> that mapping must have been decided previously). In Google we do use
> fcntls F_HUGEPAGE and F_NOHUGEPAGE to override on a per-file basis -
> one day I'll get to upstreaming those.

Such an interface seems very useful, although the two fcntls seem a bit
odd.

But I think the point here is that the i915 has its own somewhat odd
instance of tmpfs. If we could pass the equivalent of the huge=*
options to shmem_file_setup all that garbage (including the
shmem_file_setup_with_mnt function) could go away.

2019-08-08 01:24:51

by Al Viro

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Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/3] i915: convert to new mount API

On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 12:50:10AM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> that mapping must have been decided previously). In Google we do use
> fcntls F_HUGEPAGE and F_NOHUGEPAGE to override on a per-file basis -
> one day I'll get to upstreaming those.

That'd be nice - we could kill the i915 wierd private shmem instance,
along with some kludges in mm/shmem.c.

2019-08-08 01:51:35

by Al Viro

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Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/3] i915: convert to new mount API

On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 08:30:02AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 12:50:10AM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > Though personally I'm averse to managing "f"objects through
> > "m"interfaces, which can get ridiculous (notably, MADV_HUGEPAGE works
> > on the virtual address of a mapping, but the huge-or-not alignment of
> > that mapping must have been decided previously). In Google we do use
> > fcntls F_HUGEPAGE and F_NOHUGEPAGE to override on a per-file basis -
> > one day I'll get to upstreaming those.
>
> Such an interface seems very useful, although the two fcntls seem a bit
> odd.
>
> But I think the point here is that the i915 has its own somewhat odd
> instance of tmpfs. If we could pass the equivalent of the huge=*
> options to shmem_file_setup all that garbage (including the
> shmem_file_setup_with_mnt function) could go away.

... or follow shmem_file_super() with whatever that fcntl maps to
internally. I would really love to get rid of that i915 kludge.

2019-08-08 16:26:17

by Chris Wilson

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Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/3] i915: convert to new mount API

Quoting Hugh Dickins (2019-08-08 16:54:16)
> On Thu, 8 Aug 2019, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 08:30:02AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 12:50:10AM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > > > Though personally I'm averse to managing "f"objects through
> > > > "m"interfaces, which can get ridiculous (notably, MADV_HUGEPAGE works
> > > > on the virtual address of a mapping, but the huge-or-not alignment of
> > > > that mapping must have been decided previously). In Google we do use
> > > > fcntls F_HUGEPAGE and F_NOHUGEPAGE to override on a per-file basis -
> > > > one day I'll get to upstreaming those.
> > >
> > > Such an interface seems very useful, although the two fcntls seem a bit
> > > odd.
> > >
> > > But I think the point here is that the i915 has its own somewhat odd
> > > instance of tmpfs. If we could pass the equivalent of the huge=*
> > > options to shmem_file_setup all that garbage (including the
> > > shmem_file_setup_with_mnt function) could go away.
> >
> > ... or follow shmem_file_super() with whatever that fcntl maps to
> > internally. I would really love to get rid of that i915 kludge.
>
> As to the immediate problem of i915_gemfs using remount_fs on linux-next,
> IIUC, all that is necessary at the moment is the deletions patch below
> (but I'd prefer that to come from the i915 folks). Since gemfs has no
> need to change the huge option from its default to its default.
>
> As to the future of when they get back to wanting huge pages in gemfs,
> yes, that can probably best be arranged by using the internals of an
> fcntl F_HUGEPAGE on those objects that would benefit from it.
>
> Though my intention there was that the "huge=never" default ought
> to continue to refuse to give huge pages, even when asked by fcntl.
> So a little hackery may still be required, to allow the i915_gemfs
> internal mount to get huge pages when a user mount would not.
>
> As to whether shmem_file_setup_with_mnt() needs to live: I've given
> that no thought, but accept that shm_mnt is such a ragbag of different
> usages, that i915 is right to prefer their own separate gemfs mount.
>
> Hugh
>
> --- mmotm/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gemfs.c 2019-07-21 19:40:16.573703780 -0700
> +++ linux/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gemfs.c 2019-08-08 07:19:23.967689058 -0700
> @@ -24,28 +24,6 @@ int i915_gemfs_init(struct drm_i915_priv
> if (IS_ERR(gemfs))
> return PTR_ERR(gemfs);
>
> - /*
> - * Enable huge-pages for objects that are at least HPAGE_PMD_SIZE, most
> - * likely 2M. Note that within_size may overallocate huge-pages, if say
> - * we allocate an object of size 2M + 4K, we may get 2M + 2M, but under
> - * memory pressure shmem should split any huge-pages which can be
> - * shrunk.
> - */
> -
> - if (has_transparent_hugepage()) {
> - struct super_block *sb = gemfs->mnt_sb;
> - /* FIXME: Disabled until we get W/A for read BW issue. */
> - char options[] = "huge=never";
> - int flags = 0;
> - int err;
> -
> - err = sb->s_op->remount_fs(sb, &flags, options);
> - if (err) {
> - kern_unmount(gemfs);
> - return err;
> - }
> - }

That's perfectly fine; we should probably leave a hint as to why gemfs
exists and include the suggestion of looking at per-file hugepage
controls.

Matthew, how does this affect your current plans? If at all?
-Chris

2019-08-08 17:39:44

by Hugh Dickins

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Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/3] i915: convert to new mount API

On Thu, 8 Aug 2019, Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 08:30:02AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 12:50:10AM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > > Though personally I'm averse to managing "f"objects through
> > > "m"interfaces, which can get ridiculous (notably, MADV_HUGEPAGE works
> > > on the virtual address of a mapping, but the huge-or-not alignment of
> > > that mapping must have been decided previously). In Google we do use
> > > fcntls F_HUGEPAGE and F_NOHUGEPAGE to override on a per-file basis -
> > > one day I'll get to upstreaming those.
> >
> > Such an interface seems very useful, although the two fcntls seem a bit
> > odd.
> >
> > But I think the point here is that the i915 has its own somewhat odd
> > instance of tmpfs. If we could pass the equivalent of the huge=*
> > options to shmem_file_setup all that garbage (including the
> > shmem_file_setup_with_mnt function) could go away.
>
> ... or follow shmem_file_super() with whatever that fcntl maps to
> internally. I would really love to get rid of that i915 kludge.

As to the immediate problem of i915_gemfs using remount_fs on linux-next,
IIUC, all that is necessary at the moment is the deletions patch below
(but I'd prefer that to come from the i915 folks). Since gemfs has no
need to change the huge option from its default to its default.

As to the future of when they get back to wanting huge pages in gemfs,
yes, that can probably best be arranged by using the internals of an
fcntl F_HUGEPAGE on those objects that would benefit from it.

Though my intention there was that the "huge=never" default ought
to continue to refuse to give huge pages, even when asked by fcntl.
So a little hackery may still be required, to allow the i915_gemfs
internal mount to get huge pages when a user mount would not.

As to whether shmem_file_setup_with_mnt() needs to live: I've given
that no thought, but accept that shm_mnt is such a ragbag of different
usages, that i915 is right to prefer their own separate gemfs mount.

Hugh

--- mmotm/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gemfs.c 2019-07-21 19:40:16.573703780 -0700
+++ linux/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gemfs.c 2019-08-08 07:19:23.967689058 -0700
@@ -24,28 +24,6 @@ int i915_gemfs_init(struct drm_i915_priv
if (IS_ERR(gemfs))
return PTR_ERR(gemfs);

- /*
- * Enable huge-pages for objects that are at least HPAGE_PMD_SIZE, most
- * likely 2M. Note that within_size may overallocate huge-pages, if say
- * we allocate an object of size 2M + 4K, we may get 2M + 2M, but under
- * memory pressure shmem should split any huge-pages which can be
- * shrunk.
- */
-
- if (has_transparent_hugepage()) {
- struct super_block *sb = gemfs->mnt_sb;
- /* FIXME: Disabled until we get W/A for read BW issue. */
- char options[] = "huge=never";
- int flags = 0;
- int err;
-
- err = sb->s_op->remount_fs(sb, &flags, options);
- if (err) {
- kern_unmount(gemfs);
- return err;
- }
- }
-
i915->mm.gemfs = gemfs;

return 0;

2019-08-08 18:00:28

by Matthew Auld

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Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/3] i915: convert to new mount API

On 08/08/2019 17:23, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Hugh Dickins (2019-08-08 16:54:16)
>> On Thu, 8 Aug 2019, Al Viro wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 08:30:02AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 12:50:10AM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>>>>> Though personally I'm averse to managing "f"objects through
>>>>> "m"interfaces, which can get ridiculous (notably, MADV_HUGEPAGE works
>>>>> on the virtual address of a mapping, but the huge-or-not alignment of
>>>>> that mapping must have been decided previously). In Google we do use
>>>>> fcntls F_HUGEPAGE and F_NOHUGEPAGE to override on a per-file basis -
>>>>> one day I'll get to upstreaming those.
>>>>
>>>> Such an interface seems very useful, although the two fcntls seem a bit
>>>> odd.
>>>>
>>>> But I think the point here is that the i915 has its own somewhat odd
>>>> instance of tmpfs. If we could pass the equivalent of the huge=*
>>>> options to shmem_file_setup all that garbage (including the
>>>> shmem_file_setup_with_mnt function) could go away.
>>>
>>> ... or follow shmem_file_super() with whatever that fcntl maps to
>>> internally. I would really love to get rid of that i915 kludge.
>>
>> As to the immediate problem of i915_gemfs using remount_fs on linux-next,
>> IIUC, all that is necessary at the moment is the deletions patch below
>> (but I'd prefer that to come from the i915 folks). Since gemfs has no
>> need to change the huge option from its default to its default.
>>
>> As to the future of when they get back to wanting huge pages in gemfs,
>> yes, that can probably best be arranged by using the internals of an
>> fcntl F_HUGEPAGE on those objects that would benefit from it.
>>
>> Though my intention there was that the "huge=never" default ought
>> to continue to refuse to give huge pages, even when asked by fcntl.
>> So a little hackery may still be required, to allow the i915_gemfs
>> internal mount to get huge pages when a user mount would not.
>>
>> As to whether shmem_file_setup_with_mnt() needs to live: I've given
>> that no thought, but accept that shm_mnt is such a ragbag of different
>> usages, that i915 is right to prefer their own separate gemfs mount.
>>
>> Hugh
>>
>> --- mmotm/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gemfs.c 2019-07-21 19:40:16.573703780 -0700
>> +++ linux/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gem/i915_gemfs.c 2019-08-08 07:19:23.967689058 -0700
>> @@ -24,28 +24,6 @@ int i915_gemfs_init(struct drm_i915_priv
>> if (IS_ERR(gemfs))
>> return PTR_ERR(gemfs);
>>
>> - /*
>> - * Enable huge-pages for objects that are at least HPAGE_PMD_SIZE, most
>> - * likely 2M. Note that within_size may overallocate huge-pages, if say
>> - * we allocate an object of size 2M + 4K, we may get 2M + 2M, but under
>> - * memory pressure shmem should split any huge-pages which can be
>> - * shrunk.
>> - */
>> -
>> - if (has_transparent_hugepage()) {
>> - struct super_block *sb = gemfs->mnt_sb;
>> - /* FIXME: Disabled until we get W/A for read BW issue. */
>> - char options[] = "huge=never";
>> - int flags = 0;
>> - int err;
>> -
>> - err = sb->s_op->remount_fs(sb, &flags, options);
>> - if (err) {
>> - kern_unmount(gemfs);
>> - return err;
>> - }
>> - }
>
> That's perfectly fine; we should probably leave a hint as to why gemfs
> exists and include the suggestion of looking at per-file hugepage
> controls.
>
> Matthew, how does this affect your current plans? If at all?
Fine with me.

> -Chris
>