linux/mm
Jérôme Glisse 0f10851ea4 mm/mmu_notifier: avoid double notification when it is useless
This patch only affects users of mmu_notifier->invalidate_range callback
which are device drivers related to ATS/PASID, CAPI, IOMMUv2, SVM ...
and it is an optimization for those users.  Everyone else is unaffected
by it.

When clearing a pte/pmd we are given a choice to notify the event under
the page table lock (notify version of *_clear_flush helpers do call the
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range).  But that notification is not necessary
in all cases.

This patch removes almost all cases where it is useless to have a call
to mmu_notifier_invalidate_range before
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end.  It also adds documentation in all
those cases explaining why.

Below is a more in depth analysis of why this is fine to do this:

For secondary TLB (non CPU TLB) like IOMMU TLB or device TLB (when
device use thing like ATS/PASID to get the IOMMU to walk the CPU page
table to access a process virtual address space).  There is only 2 cases
when you need to notify those secondary TLB while holding page table
lock when clearing a pte/pmd:

  A) page backing address is free before mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end
  B) a page table entry is updated to point to a new page (COW, write fault
     on zero page, __replace_page(), ...)

Case A is obvious you do not want to take the risk for the device to write
to a page that might now be used by something completely different.

Case B is more subtle. For correctness it requires the following sequence
to happen:
  - take page table lock
  - clear page table entry and notify (pmd/pte_huge_clear_flush_notify())
  - set page table entry to point to new page

If clearing the page table entry is not followed by a notify before setting
the new pte/pmd value then you can break memory model like C11 or C++11 for
the device.

Consider the following scenario (device use a feature similar to ATS/
PASID):

Two address addrA and addrB such that |addrA - addrB| >= PAGE_SIZE we
assume they are write protected for COW (other case of B apply too).

[Time N] -----------------------------------------------------------------
CPU-thread-0  {try to write to addrA}
CPU-thread-1  {try to write to addrB}
CPU-thread-2  {}
CPU-thread-3  {}
DEV-thread-0  {read addrA and populate device TLB}
DEV-thread-2  {read addrB and populate device TLB}
[Time N+1] ---------------------------------------------------------------
CPU-thread-0  {COW_step0: {mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(addrA)}}
CPU-thread-1  {COW_step0: {mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(addrB)}}
CPU-thread-2  {}
CPU-thread-3  {}
DEV-thread-0  {}
DEV-thread-2  {}
[Time N+2] ---------------------------------------------------------------
CPU-thread-0  {COW_step1: {update page table point to new page for addrA}}
CPU-thread-1  {COW_step1: {update page table point to new page for addrB}}
CPU-thread-2  {}
CPU-thread-3  {}
DEV-thread-0  {}
DEV-thread-2  {}
[Time N+3] ---------------------------------------------------------------
CPU-thread-0  {preempted}
CPU-thread-1  {preempted}
CPU-thread-2  {write to addrA which is a write to new page}
CPU-thread-3  {}
DEV-thread-0  {}
DEV-thread-2  {}
[Time N+3] ---------------------------------------------------------------
CPU-thread-0  {preempted}
CPU-thread-1  {preempted}
CPU-thread-2  {}
CPU-thread-3  {write to addrB which is a write to new page}
DEV-thread-0  {}
DEV-thread-2  {}
[Time N+4] ---------------------------------------------------------------
CPU-thread-0  {preempted}
CPU-thread-1  {COW_step3: {mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(addrB)}}
CPU-thread-2  {}
CPU-thread-3  {}
DEV-thread-0  {}
DEV-thread-2  {}
[Time N+5] ---------------------------------------------------------------
CPU-thread-0  {preempted}
CPU-thread-1  {}
CPU-thread-2  {}
CPU-thread-3  {}
DEV-thread-0  {read addrA from old page}
DEV-thread-2  {read addrB from new page}

So here because at time N+2 the clear page table entry was not pair with a
notification to invalidate the secondary TLB, the device see the new value
for addrB before seing the new value for addrA.  This break total memory
ordering for the device.

When changing a pte to write protect or to point to a new write protected
page with same content (KSM) it is ok to delay invalidate_range callback
to mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end() outside the page table lock.  This
is true even if the thread doing page table update is preempted right
after releasing page table lock before calling
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end

Thanks to Andrea for thinking of a problematic scenario for COW.

[jglisse@redhat.com: v2]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171017031003.7481-2-jglisse@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170901173011.10745-1-jglisse@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Cc: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-15 18:21:03 -08:00
..
kasan slab, slub, slob: add slab_flags_t 2017-11-15 18:21:01 -08:00
Kconfig mm/hmm: avoid bloating arch that do not make use of HMM 2017-09-08 18:26:46 -07:00
Kconfig.debug mm: enable page poisoning early at boot 2017-05-03 15:52:10 -07:00
Makefile License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
backing-dev.c backing-dev: kill unused pdflush_proc_obsolete() 2017-10-06 08:15:15 -06:00
balloon_compaction.c mm/migrate: new migrate mode MIGRATE_SYNC_NO_COPY 2017-09-08 18:26:46 -07:00
bootmem.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
cleancache.c fs: switch ->s_uuid to uuid_t 2017-06-05 16:59:12 +02:00
cma.c mm/cma.c: take __GFP_NOWARN into account in cma_alloc() 2017-10-13 16:18:32 -07:00
cma.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
cma_debug.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
compaction.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
debug.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
debug_page_ref.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
dmapool.c lib/vsprintf.c: remove %Z support 2017-02-27 18:43:47 -08:00
early_ioremap.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
fadvise.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
failslab.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
filemap.c mm: have filemap_check_and_advance_wb_err clear AS_EIO/AS_ENOSPC 2017-10-03 17:54:24 -07:00
frame_vector.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
frontswap.c mm, frontswap: convert frontswap_enabled to static key 2016-07-26 16:19:19 -07:00
gup.c Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/mm, to pick up fixes 2017-10-20 13:06:52 +02:00
highmem.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
hmm.c mm/hmm: avoid bloating arch that do not make use of HMM 2017-09-08 18:26:46 -07:00
huge_memory.c mm/mmu_notifier: avoid double notification when it is useless 2017-11-15 18:21:03 -08:00
hugetlb.c mm/mmu_notifier: avoid double notification when it is useless 2017-11-15 18:21:03 -08:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c mm, hugetlb_cgroup: round limit_in_bytes down to hugepage size 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c mm: hwpoison: call shake_page() unconditionally 2017-05-03 15:52:12 -07:00
init-mm.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
internal.h mm, oom: do not rely on TIF_MEMDIE for memory reserves access 2017-09-06 17:27:30 -07:00
interval_tree.c lib/interval_tree: fast overlap detection 2017-09-08 18:26:49 -07:00
khugepaged.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
kmemcheck.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
kmemleak-test.c mm: convert printk(KERN_<LEVEL> to pr_<level> 2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
kmemleak.c mm: kmemleak: treat vm_struct as alternative reference to vmalloc'ed objects 2017-07-06 16:24:34 -07:00
ksm.c mm/mmu_notifier: avoid double notification when it is useless 2017-11-15 18:21:03 -08:00
list_lru.c mm: memcontrol: use vmalloc fallback for large kmem memcg arrays 2017-10-03 17:54:25 -07:00
maccess.c x86: remove more uaccess_32.h complexity 2016-05-22 17:21:27 -07:00
madvise.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
memblock.c mm/memblock.c: make the index explicit argument of for_each_memblock_type 2017-11-15 18:21:02 -08:00
memcontrol.c mm: slabinfo: remove CONFIG_SLABINFO 2017-11-15 18:21:01 -08:00
memory-failure.c x86/mm, mm/hwpoison: Clear PRESENT bit for kernel 1:1 mappings of poison pages 2017-08-17 10:30:49 +02:00
memory.c mm: swap: SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO: skip swapcache only if swapped page has no other reference 2017-11-15 18:21:02 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c mm, memory_hotplug: remove timeout from __offline_memory 2017-11-15 18:21:02 -08:00
mempolicy.c mm/mempolicy: fix NUMA_INTERLEAVE_HIT counter 2017-10-13 16:18:32 -07:00
mempool.c mm/mempool.c: use kmalloc_array_node() 2017-11-15 18:21:02 -08:00
memtest.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
migrate.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
mincore.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
mlock.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
mm_init.c mm: convert printk(KERN_<LEVEL> to pr_<level> 2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
mmap.c lib/interval_tree: fast overlap detection 2017-09-08 18:26:49 -07:00
mmu_context.c sched/headers: Prepare to move the task_lock()/unlock() APIs to <linux/sched/task.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:38 +01:00
mmu_notifier.c mm/mmu_notifier: kill invalidate_page 2017-08-31 16:13:00 -07:00
mmzone.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
mprotect.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
mremap.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
msync.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
nobootmem.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
nommu.c Merge branch 'work.set_fs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-09-14 18:13:32 -07:00
oom_kill.c mm: oom: show unreclaimable slab info when unreclaimable slabs > user memory 2017-11-15 18:21:01 -08:00
page-writeback.c mm/page-writeback.c: print a warning if the vm dirtiness settings are illogical 2017-11-15 18:21:03 -08:00
page_alloc.c mm, page_alloc: fail has_unmovable_pages when seeing reserved pages 2017-11-15 18:21:02 -08:00
page_counter.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
page_ext.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
page_idle.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
page_io.c mm, swap: skip swapcache for swapin of synchronous device 2017-11-15 18:21:02 -08:00
page_isolation.c mm: distinguish CMA and MOVABLE isolation in has_unmovable_pages() 2017-11-15 18:21:02 -08:00
page_owner.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
page_poison.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
page_vma_mapped.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
pagewalk.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
percpu-internal.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
percpu-km.c percpu: replace area map allocator with bitmap 2017-07-26 17:41:05 -04:00
percpu-stats.c percpu: fix starting offset for chunk statistics traversal 2017-09-27 14:45:57 -07:00
percpu-vm.c percpu: fix static checker warnings in pcpu_destroy_chunk 2017-06-29 11:23:38 -04:00
percpu.c mm, percpu: add support for __GFP_NOWARN flag 2017-10-19 13:13:49 +01:00
pgtable-generic.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
process_vm_access.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/mm.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:28 +01:00
quicklist.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
readahead.c mm: don't cap request size based on read-ahead setting 2016-12-12 18:55:08 -08:00
rmap.c mm/mmu_notifier: avoid double notification when it is useless 2017-11-15 18:21:03 -08:00
rodata_test.c mm: fix RODATA_TEST failure "rodata_test: test data was not read only" 2017-10-03 17:54:24 -07:00
shmem.c mm: treewide: remove GFP_TEMPORARY allocation flag 2017-09-13 18:53:16 -07:00
slab.c slab, slub, slob: convert slab_flags_t to 32-bit 2017-11-15 18:21:01 -08:00
slab.h slab, slub, slob: add slab_flags_t 2017-11-15 18:21:01 -08:00
slab_common.c slab, slub, slob: add slab_flags_t 2017-11-15 18:21:01 -08:00
slob.c slab, slub, slob: add slab_flags_t 2017-11-15 18:21:01 -08:00
slub.c slub: fix sysfs duplicate filename creation when slub_debug=O 2017-11-15 18:21:01 -08:00
sparse-vmemmap.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
sparse.c Merge branch 'x86/mm' into x86/asm, to merge branches 2017-11-10 08:05:30 +01:00
swap.c mm: avoid marking swap cached page as lazyfree 2017-10-03 17:54:24 -07:00
swap_cgroup.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
swap_slots.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
swap_state.c mm, swap: fix false error message in __swp_swapcount() 2017-11-15 18:21:02 -08:00
swapfile.c mm: swap: SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO: skip swapcache only if swapped page has no other reference 2017-11-15 18:21:02 -08:00
truncate.c mm/truncate.c: fix THP handling in invalidate_mapping_pages() 2017-07-10 16:32:32 -07:00
usercopy.c mm/usercopy: Drop extra is_vmalloc_or_module() check 2017-04-05 12:30:18 -07:00
userfaultfd.c userfaultfd: shmem: wire up shmem_mfill_zeropage_pte 2017-09-06 17:27:28 -07:00
util.c mm: rename global_page_state to global_zone_page_state 2017-09-06 17:27:29 -07:00
vmacache.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
vmalloc.c Revert "vmalloc: back off when the current task is killed" 2017-10-13 16:18:32 -07:00
vmpressure.c mm, vmpressure: pass-through notification support 2017-07-10 16:32:31 -07:00
vmscan.c Merge branch 'for-4.15/block' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-11-14 15:32:19 -08:00
vmstat.c mm: consider the number in local CPUs when reading NUMA stats 2017-09-08 18:26:47 -07:00
workingset.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
z3fold.c z3fold: fix stale list handling 2017-10-03 17:54:24 -07:00
zbud.c mm/zbud.c: use list_last_entry() instead of list_tail_entry() 2016-01-15 11:40:52 -08:00
zpool.c
zsmalloc.c zsmalloc: calling zs_map_object() from irq is a bug 2017-11-15 18:21:03 -08:00
zswap.c mm/zswap.c: delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in zswap_dstmem_prepare() 2017-07-06 16:24:35 -07:00