From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wg0-f50.google.com (mail-wg0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B62E6B0038 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 18:34:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-wg0-f50.google.com with SMTP id x13so519774wgg.21 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:34:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from v.hpx.cz (v.hpx.cz. [46.28.110.221]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id eg6si4342272wic.96.2014.09.16.15.34.07 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:34:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 00:34:05 +0200 From: Radim =?utf-8?B?S3LEjW3DocWZ?= Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: Faults which trigger IO release the mmap_sem Message-ID: <20140916223402.GL15807@hpx.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andres Lagar-Cavilla Cc: Paolo Bonzini , Gleb Natapov , Rik van Riel , Peter Zijlstra , Mel Gorman , Andy Lutomirski , Andrew Morton , Andrea Arcangeli , Sasha Levin , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org [Emergency posting to fix the tag and couldn't find unmangled Cc list, so some recipients were dropped, sorry. (I guess you are glad though).] 2014-09-16 14:01-0700, Andres Lagar-Cavilla: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Radim KrA?mA!A? wrote: > > 2014-09-15 13:11-0700, Andres Lagar-Cavilla: > >> +int kvm_get_user_page_retry(struct task_struct *tsk, struct > >> mm_struct *mm, > > > > The suffix '_retry' is not best suited for this. > > On first reading, I imagined we will be retrying something from > > before, > > possibly calling it in a loop, but we are actually doing the first and > > last try in one call. > > We are doing ... the second and third in most scenarios. async_pf did > the first with _NOWAIT. We call this from the async pf retrier, or if > async pf couldn't be notified to the guest. I was thinking more about what the function does, not how we currently use it -- nothing prevents us from using it as first somewhere -- but yeah, even comments would be off then. > >> Apart from this, the patch looks good. The mm/ parts are minimal, so > >> I > >> think it's best to merge it through the KVM tree with someone's > >> Acked-by. > > > > I would prefer to have the last hunk in a separate patch, but still, > > > > Acked-by: Radim KrA?mA!A? > > Awesome, thanks much. > > I'll recut with the VM_BUG_ON from Paolo and your Ack. LMK if anything > else from this email should go into the recut. Ah, sorry, I'm not maintaining mm ... what I meant was Reviewed-by: Radim KrA?mA!A? and I had to leave before I could find a good apology for VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(), so if you are replacing BUG_ON, you might want to look at that one as well. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org