On Wed 16-11-16 11:51:32, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 12:50:21AM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 05:24:57AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> > > Currently we have two different structures for passing fault information
> > > around - struct vm_fault and struct fault_env. DAX will need more
> > > information in struct vm_fault to handle its faults so the content of
> > > that structure would become event closer to fault_env. Furthermore it
> > > would need to generate struct fault_env to be able to call some of the
> > > generic functions. So at this point I don't think there's much use in
> > > keeping these two structures separate. Just embed into struct vm_fault
> > > all that is needed to use it for both purposes.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz>
> >
> > I'm not necessary dislike this, but I remember Peter had objections before
> > when I proposed something similar.
> >
> > Peter?
>
> My objection was that it would be a layering violation. The 'filesystem'
> shouldn't know about page-tables, all it should do is return a page
> matching a specific offset.
>
> So fault_env manages the core vm parts and has the page-table bits in,
> vm_fault manages the filesystem interface and gets us a page given an
> offset.
>
> Now, I'm entirely out of touch wrt DAX, so I've not idea what that
> needs/wants.
Yeah, DAX does not have 'struct page' for its pages so it directly installs
PFNs in the page tables. As a result it needs to know about page tables and
stuff. Now I've abstracted knowledge about that into helper functions back
in mm/ but still we need to pass the information through the ->fault handler
into those helpers and vm_fault structure is simply natural for that.
So far we have tried to avoid that but the result was not pretty (special
return codes from DAX ->fault handlers essentially leaking information
about DAX internal locking into mm/ code to direct generic mm code to do
the right thing for DAX).
Honza
> > > diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> > > index a92c8d73aeaf..657eb69eb87e 100644
> > > --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> > > +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> > > @@ -292,10 +292,16 @@ extern pgprot_t protection_map[16];
> > > * pgoff should be used in favour of virtual_address, if possible.
> > > */
> > > struct vm_fault {
> > > + struct vm_area_struct *vma; /* Target VMA */
> > > unsigned int flags; /* FAULT_FLAG_xxx flags */
> > > gfp_t gfp_mask; /* gfp mask to be used for allocations
> > > */
> > > pgoff_t pgoff; /* Logical page offset based on vma */
> > > + unsigned long address; /* Faulting virtual address */
> > > + void __user *virtual_address; /* Faulting virtual address masked by
> > > + * PAGE_MASK */
> > > + pmd_t *pmd; /* Pointer to pmd entry matching
> > > + * the 'address'
> > > + */
> > >
> > > struct page *cow_page; /* Handler may choose to COW */
> > > struct page *page; /* ->fault handlers should return a
>
> Egads, horrific commenting style that :-)
--
Jan Kara <j...@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR
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