Re: [PATCH 09/19] io_uring: convert to use vm_account

[Jens Axboe]

On 2/7/23 7:55?AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2023 at 07:28:56AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
>> Outside of that, we're now doubling the amount of memory associated with
>> tracking this. That isn't necessarily a showstopper, but it is not
>> ideal. I didn't take a look at the other conversions (again, because
>> they were not sent to me), but seems like the task_struct and flags
>> could just be passed in as they may very well be known to many/most
>> callers?
> 
> For places doing the mm accounting type it cannot use the task struct
> as the underlying mm can be replaced and keep the task, IIRC.
> 
> We just had a bug in VFIO related to this..
> 
> If we could go back from the mm to the task (even a from a destroyed
> mm though) that might work to reduce storage?

Then maybe just nest them:

struct small_one {
	struct mm_struct *mm;
	struct user_struct *user;
};

struct big_one {
	struct small_one foo;
	struct task_struct *task;
	enum vm_account_flags flags;
};

and have the real helpers deal with small_one, and wrappers around that
taking big_one that just passes in the missing bits. Then users that
don't need the extra bits can just use the right API.

-- 
Jens Axboe