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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>,
	zuoze <zuoze1@huawei.com>,
	gustavoars@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	keescook@chromium.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next] mm: usercopy: add a debugfs interface to bypass the vmalloc check.
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2024 19:56:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z09icnP7QuaLg4Qv@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Z09VwuhfQbbro-gA@pc638.lan>

On Tue, Dec 03, 2024 at 08:02:26PM +0100, Uladzislau Rezki wrote:

I think there are a few other things we can try here.

First, if the copy is small (and I still don't have an answer to that
...), we can skip the vmalloc lookup if the copy doesn't cross a page
boundary.

Second, we could try storing this in a maple tree rather than an rbtree.
That gives us RCU protected lookups rather than under a spinlock.

It might even be worth going to a rwlock first, in case the problem is
that there's severe lock contention.

But I've asked for data on spinlock contention and not received an
answer on that either, so I don't know what to suggest.

Anyway, NACK to the original patch; that's just a horrible idea.


  reply	other threads:[~2024-12-03 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-03  2:31 Ze Zuo
2024-12-03  4:11 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-12-03 11:23   ` zuoze
2024-12-03 12:39     ` Uladzislau Rezki
2024-12-03 13:10       ` zuoze
2024-12-03 13:25         ` Uladzislau Rezki
2024-12-03 13:30         ` Kefeng Wang
2024-12-03 13:39           ` Uladzislau Rezki
2024-12-03 13:45             ` Kefeng Wang
2024-12-03 13:51               ` Uladzislau Rezki
2024-12-03 14:10                 ` Kefeng Wang
2024-12-03 14:20                   ` Uladzislau Rezki
2024-12-03 19:02                     ` Uladzislau Rezki
2024-12-03 19:56                       ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2024-12-04  1:38                         ` zuoze
2024-12-04  4:43                         ` Kees Cook
2024-12-04  7:55                         ` Uladzislau Rezki
2024-12-04  9:21                           ` zuoze
2024-12-04  9:27                             ` Uladzislau Rezki
2024-12-04  8:51                         ` Uladzislau Rezki
2024-12-16  4:24                           ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-12-16 19:18                             ` Uladzislau Rezki
2024-12-04  1:21                       ` zuoze
2024-12-03  6:12 ` Uladzislau Rezki

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