[PATCH v2 hmm 03/11] mm/hmm: Hold a mmgrab from hmm to mm

John Hubbard jhubbard at nvidia.com
Fri Jun 7 02:44:58 UTC 2019


On 6/6/19 11:44 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at mellanox.com>
> 
> So long a a struct hmm pointer exists, so should the struct mm it is
> linked too. Hold the mmgrab() as soon as a hmm is created, and mmdrop() it
> once the hmm refcount goes to zero.
> 
> Since mmdrop() (ie a 0 kref on struct mm) is now impossible with a !NULL
> mm->hmm delete the hmm_hmm_destroy().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at mellanox.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse at redhat.com>
> ---
> v2:
>  - Fix error unwind paths in hmm_get_or_create (Jerome/Jason)
> ---
>  include/linux/hmm.h |  3 ---
>  kernel/fork.c       |  1 -
>  mm/hmm.c            | 22 ++++------------------
>  3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/hmm.h b/include/linux/hmm.h
> index 2d519797cb134a..4ee3acabe5ed22 100644
> --- a/include/linux/hmm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/hmm.h
> @@ -586,14 +586,11 @@ static inline int hmm_vma_fault(struct hmm_mirror *mirror,
>  }
>  
>  /* Below are for HMM internal use only! Not to be used by device driver! */
> -void hmm_mm_destroy(struct mm_struct *mm);
> -
>  static inline void hmm_mm_init(struct mm_struct *mm)
>  {
>  	mm->hmm = NULL;
>  }
>  #else /* IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HMM_MIRROR) */
> -static inline void hmm_mm_destroy(struct mm_struct *mm) {}
>  static inline void hmm_mm_init(struct mm_struct *mm) {}
>  #endif /* IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HMM_MIRROR) */
>  
> diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
> index b2b87d450b80b5..588c768ae72451 100644
> --- a/kernel/fork.c
> +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> @@ -673,7 +673,6 @@ void __mmdrop(struct mm_struct *mm)
>  	WARN_ON_ONCE(mm == current->active_mm);
>  	mm_free_pgd(mm);
>  	destroy_context(mm);
> -	hmm_mm_destroy(mm);


This is particularly welcome, not to have an "HMM is special" case
in such a core part of process/mm code. 


>  	mmu_notifier_mm_destroy(mm);
>  	check_mm(mm);
>  	put_user_ns(mm->user_ns);
> diff --git a/mm/hmm.c b/mm/hmm.c
> index 8796447299023c..cc7c26fda3300e 100644
> --- a/mm/hmm.c
> +++ b/mm/hmm.c
> @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
>  #include <linux/swapops.h>
>  #include <linux/hugetlb.h>
>  #include <linux/memremap.h>
> +#include <linux/sched/mm.h>
>  #include <linux/jump_label.h>
>  #include <linux/dma-mapping.h>
>  #include <linux/mmu_notifier.h>
> @@ -82,6 +83,7 @@ static struct hmm *hmm_get_or_create(struct mm_struct *mm)
>  	hmm->notifiers = 0;
>  	hmm->dead = false;
>  	hmm->mm = mm;
> +	mmgrab(hmm->mm);
>  
>  	spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
>  	if (!mm->hmm)
> @@ -109,6 +111,7 @@ static struct hmm *hmm_get_or_create(struct mm_struct *mm)
>  		mm->hmm = NULL;
>  	spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
>  error:
> +	mmdrop(hmm->mm);
>  	kfree(hmm);
>  	return NULL;
>  }
> @@ -130,6 +133,7 @@ static void hmm_free(struct kref *kref)
>  		mm->hmm = NULL;
>  	spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
>  
> +	mmdrop(hmm->mm);
>  	mmu_notifier_call_srcu(&hmm->rcu, hmm_free_rcu);
>  }
>  
> @@ -138,24 +142,6 @@ static inline void hmm_put(struct hmm *hmm)
>  	kref_put(&hmm->kref, hmm_free);
>  }
>  
> -void hmm_mm_destroy(struct mm_struct *mm)
> -{
> -	struct hmm *hmm;
> -
> -	spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
> -	hmm = mm_get_hmm(mm);
> -	mm->hmm = NULL;
> -	if (hmm) {
> -		hmm->mm = NULL;
> -		hmm->dead = true;
> -		spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
> -		hmm_put(hmm);
> -		return;
> -	}
> -
> -	spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
> -}
> -
>  static void hmm_release(struct mmu_notifier *mn, struct mm_struct *mm)
>  {
>  	struct hmm *hmm = container_of(mn, struct hmm, mmu_notifier);
> 

Failed to find any problems with this. :)

    Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard at nvidia.com>

thanks,
-- 
John Hubbard
NVIDIA


More information about the amd-gfx mailing list