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

[Minchan Kim]

On 05/12/2012 01:48 PM, InKi Dae wrote:

> 2012/5/12 KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro at gmail.com>:
>> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Jerome Glisse <j.glisse at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 6:59 PM, KOSAKI Motohiro
>>> <kosaki.motohiro at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> My point is this ioctl will be restricted to one user (Xserver if i
>>>>> understand) and only this user, there is no fork in it so no need to
>>>>> worry about fork, just setting the vma as locked will be enough.
>>>>>
>>>>> But i don't want people reading this driver suddenly think that what
>>>>> it's doing is ok, it's not, it's hack and can never make to work
>>>>> properly on a general case, that's why it needs a big comment stating,
>>>>> stressing that. I just wanted to make sure Inki and Kyungmin
>>>>> understood that this kind of ioctl should be restricted to carefully
>>>>> selected user and that there is no way to make it general or reliable
>>>>> outside that.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> first off, I'm not drm guy and then I don't intend to insist you. but if
>>>> application don't use fork, get_user_pages() has no downside. I guess we
>>>> don't need VM_LOCKED hack.
>>>>
>>>> but again, up to drm folks.
>>>
>>> You need the VM_LOCKED hack to mare sure that the xorg vma still point
>>> to the same page, afaict with get_user_pages pages can be migrated out
>>> of the anonymous vma so the vma might point to new page, while old
>>> page are still in use by the gpu and not recycle until their refcount
>>> drop to 0.
>>
>> afaik, get_user_pages() prevent page migration. (see
>> migrate_page_move_mapping). but mlock doesn't.
> 
> 
> I'd like to make sure some points before preparing next patch to
> userptr feature.
> 
> in case that userptr ioctl can be accessed by user.
> 1. all the pages from get_user_pages can't be migrated by CMA and also


Yes. I already mentioned it.

> it doesn't need VM_LOCKED or VM_RESERVED flag.


Yes, if you just use that flag to prevent migration.

> 
> 2. if VM_DONTCOPY is set to vma->flags then all the pages to this vma
> are safe from being COW.


Yes.

> 
> 3. userptr ioctl  has limited size and the limited size can be changed
> by only root user. this is for preventing from dropping system
> performance by malicious software.


IMHO, looks good to me but need answer from DRM guy on the question.

> 
> with above actions taken, are there something we didn't care? if so,
> we will preparing next path for the userptr ioctl to be accessed by
> only root user. this means that this feature is used by only X Server
> but isn't used by any users. so we are going to wait something
> resolved fully. of course, as Jerome said, we wil add big comments
> describing this feature enough to next patch.
> 
> Thanks,
> Inki Dae
> 
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Minchan Kim