[PATCH 2/2 v3] drm/exynos: added userptr feature.

[Minchan Kim]

On 05/10/2012 04:31 PM, Kyungmin Park wrote:

> On 5/10/12, Minchan Kim <minchan at kernel.org> wrote:
>> On 05/10/2012 03:53 PM, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
>>
>>> (5/10/12 12:58 AM), Minchan Kim wrote:
>>>> On 05/10/2012 10:39 AM, Inki Dae wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Jerome,
>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: Jerome Glisse [mailto:j.glisse at gmail.com]
>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 11:46 PM
>>>>>> To: Inki Dae
>>>>>> Cc: airlied at linux.ie; dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org;
>>>>>> kyungmin.park at samsung.com; sw0312.kim at samsung.com; linux-mm at kvack.org
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v3] drm/exynos: added userptr feature.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Inki Dae<inki.dae at samsung.com>  wrote:
>>>>>>> this feature is used to import user space region allocated by
>>>>>>> malloc()
>>>>>> or
>>>>>>> mmaped into a gem. and to guarantee the pages to user space not to be
>>>>>>> swapped out, the VMAs within the user space would be locked and then
>>>>>> unlocked
>>>>>>> when the pages are released.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> but this lock might result in significant degradation of system
>>>>>> performance
>>>>>>> because the pages couldn't be swapped out so we limit user-desired
>>>>>> userptr
>>>>>>> size to pre-defined.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Inki Dae<inki.dae at samsung.com>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park<kyungmin.park at samsung.com>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Again i would like feedback from mm people (adding cc). I am not sure
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you, I missed adding mm as cc.
>>>>>
>>>>>> locking the vma is the right anwser as i said in my previous mail,
>>>>>> userspace can munlock it in your back, maybe VM_RESERVED is better.
>>>>>
>>>>> I know that with VM_RESERVED flag, also we can avoid the pages from
>>>>> being
>>>>> swapped out. but these pages should be unlocked anytime we want
>>>>> because we
>>>>> could allocate all pages on system and lock them, which in turn, it may
>>>>> result in significant deterioration of system performance.(maybe other
>>>>> processes requesting free memory would be blocked) so I used
>>>>> VM_LOCKED flags
>>>>> instead. but I'm not sure this way is best also.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyway even not considering that you don't check at all that process
>>>>>> don't go over the limit of locked page see mm/mlock.c RLIMIT_MEMLOCK
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you for your advices.
>>>>>
>>>>>> for how it's done. Also you mlock complete vma but the userptr you get
>>>>>> might be inside say 16M vma and you only care about 1M of userptr, if
>>>>>> you mark the whole vma as locked than anytime a new page is fault in
>>>>>> the vma else where than in the buffer you are interested then it got
>>>>>> allocated for ever until the gem buffer is destroy, i am not sure of
>>>>>> what happen to the vma on next malloc if it grows or not (i would
>>>>>> think it won't grow at it would have different flags than new
>>>>>> anonymous memory).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I don't know history in detail because you didn't have sent full
>>>> patches to linux-mm and
>>>> I didn't read the below code, either.
>>>> Just read your description and reply of Jerome. Apparently, there is
>>>> something I missed.
>>>>
>>>> Your goal is to avoid swap out some user pages which is used in kernel
>>>> at the same time. Right?
>>>> Let's use get_user_pages. Is there any issue you can't use it?
>>>
>>> Maybe because get_user_pages() is fork unsafe? dunno.
>>
>>
>> If there is such problem, I think user program should handle it by
>> MADV_DONTFORK
>> and make to allow write by only parent process.
> Please read the original patches and discuss the root cause. Does it
> harm to pass user space memory to kernel space and how to make is
> possible at DRM?


Where can I read original discussion history?
I am not expert of DRAM so I can answer only mm stuff and it's why Jerome ccing mm-list.
About mm stuff, I think it's no harm for kernel to use user space memory if it uses carefully.
If you are saying about permission, at least, DRM code can check it by can_do_mlock and checking lock_limit.
If you are saying another security, I'm not right person to discuss it.
please Ccing security at kernel.org.

Thanks.

> 
> Thank you,
> Kyungmin Park
>>
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