Re: [PATCH v1] mm/gup: adjust stale comment for RCU GUP-fast

[Aneesh Kumar K V]

On 9/1/22 10:04 PM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 01.09.22 18:28, Peter Xu wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 09:21:19AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>> commit 4b471e8898c3 ("mm, thp: remove infrastructure for handling splitting
>>> PMDs") didn't remove all details about the THP split requirements for
>>> RCU GUP-fast.
>>>
>>> IPI broeadcasts on THP split are no longer required.
>>>
>>> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>  mm/gup.c | 5 ++---
>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
>>> index 5abdaf487460..cfe71f422787 100644
>>> --- a/mm/gup.c
>>> +++ b/mm/gup.c
>>> @@ -2309,9 +2309,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_user_pages_unlocked);
>>>   *
>>>   * Another way to achieve this is to batch up page table containing pages
>>>   * belonging to more than one mm_user, then rcu_sched a callback to free those
>>> - * pages. Disabling interrupts will allow the fast_gup walker to both block
>>> - * the rcu_sched callback, and an IPI that we broadcast for splitting THPs
>>> - * (which is a relatively rare event). The code below adopts this strategy.
>>> + * pages. Disabling interrupts will allow the fast_gup walker to block the
>>> + * rcu_sched callback.
>>
>> This is the comment for fast-gup in general but not only for thp split.
> 
> "an IPI that we broadcast for splitting THP" is about splitting THP.
> 
>>
>> I can understand that we don't need IPI for thp split, but isn't the IPIs
>> still needed for thp collapse (aka pmdp_collapse_flush)?
> 
> That was, unfortunately, never documented -- and as discussed in the
> other thread, arm64 doesn't do that IPI before collapse and might need
> fixing. We'll most probably end up getting rid of that
> (undocumented/forgotten) IPI requirement and fix it in GUP-fast by
> re-rechecking if the PMD changed.
> 

Can you point to the other thread ?

-aneesh