The basic idea behind cross memory attach is to allow MPI programs doing
intra-node communication to do a single copy of the message rather than a
double copy of the message via shared memory.
The following patch attempts to achieve this by allowing a destination
process, given an address and size from a source process, to copy memory
directly from the source process into its own address space via a system
call. There is also a symmetrical ability to copy from the current
process's address space into a destination process's address space.
- Use of /proc/pid/mem has been considered, but there are issues with
using it:
- Does not allow for specifying iovecs for both src and dest, assuming
preadv or pwritev was implemented either the area read from or
written to would need to be contiguous.
- Currently mem_read allows only processes who are currently
ptrace'ing the target and are still able to ptrace the target to read
from the target. This check could possibly be moved to the open call,
but its not clear exactly what race this restriction is stopping
(reason appears to have been lost)
- Having to send the fd of /proc/self/mem via SCM_RIGHTS on unix
domain socket is a bit ugly from a userspace point of view,
especially when you may have hundreds if not (eventually) thousands
of processes that all need to do this with each other
- Doesn't allow for some future use of the interface we would like to
consider adding in the future (see below)
- Interestingly reading from /proc/pid/mem currently actually
involves two copies! (But this could be fixed pretty easily)
As mentioned previously use of vmsplice instead was considered, but has
problems. Since you need the reader and writer working co-operatively if
the pipe is not drained then you block. Which requires some wrapping to
do non blocking on the send side or polling on the receive. In all to all
communication it requires ordering otherwise you can deadlock. And in the
example of many MPI tasks writing to one MPI task vmsplice serialises the
copying.
There are some cases of MPI collectives where even a single copy interface
does not get us the performance gain we could. For example in an
MPI_Reduce rather than copy the data from the source we would like to
instead use it directly in a mathops (say the reduce is doing a sum) as
this would save us doing a copy. We don't need to keep a copy of the data
from the source. I haven't implemented this, but I think this interface
could in the future do all this through the use of the flags - eg could
specify the math operation and type and the kernel rather than just
copying the data would apply the specified operation between the source
and destination and store it in the destination.
Although we don't have a "second user" of the interface (though I've had
some nibbles from people who may be interested in using it for intra
process messaging which is not MPI). This interface is something which
hardware vendors are already doing for their custom drivers to implement
fast local communication. And so in addition to this being useful for
OpenMPI it would mean the driver maintainers don't have to fix things up
when the mm changes.
There was some discussion about how much faster a true zero copy would
go. Here's a link back to the email with some testing I did on that:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=130105930902915&w=2
There is a basic man page for the proposed interface here:
http://ozlabs.org/~cyeoh/cma/process_vm_readv.txt
This has been implemented for x86 and powerpc, other architecture should
mainly (I think) just need to add syscall numbers for the process_vm_readv
and process_vm_writev. There are 32 bit compatibility versions for
64-bit kernels.
For arch maintainers there are some simple tests to be able to quickly
verify that the syscalls are working correctly here:
http://ozlabs.org/~cyeoh/cma/cma-test-20110718.tgz
Signed-off-by: Chris Yeoh <yeohc@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hch/vfs-queue: (21 commits)
leases: fix write-open/read-lease race
nfs: drop unnecessary locking in llseek
ext4: replace cut'n'pasted llseek code with generic_file_llseek_size
vfs: add generic_file_llseek_size
vfs: do (nearly) lockless generic_file_llseek
direct-io: merge direct_io_walker into __blockdev_direct_IO
direct-io: inline the complete submission path
direct-io: separate map_bh from dio
direct-io: use a slab cache for struct dio
direct-io: rearrange fields in dio/dio_submit to avoid holes
direct-io: fix a wrong comment
direct-io: separate fields only used in the submission path from struct dio
vfs: fix spinning prevention in prune_icache_sb
vfs: add a comment to inode_permission()
vfs: pass all mask flags check_acl and posix_acl_permission
vfs: add hex format for MAY_* flag values
vfs: indicate that the permission functions take all the MAY_* flags
compat: sync compat_stats with statfs.
vfs: add "device" tag to /proc/self/mountstats
cleanup: vfs: small comment fix for block_invalidatepage
...
Fix up trivial conflict in fs/gfs2/file.c (llseek changes)
This was found by inspection while tracking a similar
bug in compat_statfs64, that has been fixed in mainline
since decemeber.
- This fixes a bug where not all of the f_spare fields
were cleared on mips and s390.
- Add the f_flags field to struct compat_statfs
- Copy f_flags to userspace in case someone cares.
- Use __clear_user to copy the f_spare field to userspace
to ensure that all of the elements of f_spare are cleared.
On some architectures f_spare is has 5 ints and on some
architectures f_spare only has 4 ints. Which makes
the previous technique of clearing each int individually
broken.
I don't expect anyone actually uses the old statfs system
call anymore but if they do let them benefit from having
the compat and the native version working the same.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
* 'for-3.2' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (103 commits)
nfs41: implement DESTROY_CLIENTID operation
nfsd4: typo logical vs bitwise negate for want_mask
nfsd4: allow NFS4_SHARE_SIGNAL_DELEG_WHEN_RESRC_AVAIL | NFS4_SHARE_PUSH_DELEG_WHEN_UNCONTENDED
nfsd4: seq->status_flags may be used unitialized
nfsd41: use SEQ4_STATUS_BACKCHANNEL_FAULT when cb_sequence is invalid
nfsd4: implement new 4.1 open reclaim types
nfsd4: remove unneeded CLAIM_DELEGATE_CUR workaround
nfsd4: warn on open failure after create
nfsd4: preallocate open stateid in process_open1()
nfsd4: do idr preallocation with stateid allocation
nfsd4: preallocate nfs4_file in process_open1()
nfsd4: clean up open owners on OPEN failure
nfsd4: simplify process_open1 logic
nfsd4: make is_open_owner boolean
nfsd4: centralize renew_client() calls
nfsd4: typo logical vs bitwise negate
nfs: fix bug about IPv6 address scope checking
nfsd4: more robust ignoring of WANT bits in OPEN
nfsd4: move name-length checks to xdr
nfsd4: move access/deny validity checks to xdr code
...
As promised in feature-removal-schedule.txt it is time to
remove the nfsctl system call.
Userspace has perferred to not use this call throughout 2.6 and it has been
excluded in the default configuration since 2.6.36 (9 months ago).
So this patch removes all the code that was being compiled out.
There are still references to sys_nfsctl in various arch systemcall tables
and related code. These should be cleaned out too, probably in the next
merge window.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Add the appropriate members into struct user_arg_ptr and teach
get_user_arg_ptr() to handle is_compat = T case correctly.
This allows us to remove the compat_do_execve() code from fs/compat.c
and reimplement compat_do_execve() as the trivial wrapper on top of
do_execve_common(is_compat => true).
In fact, this fixes another (minor) bug. "compat_uptr_t str" can
overflow after "str += len" in compat_copy_strings() if a 64bit
application execs via sys32_execve().
Unexport acct_arg_size() and get_arg_page(), fs/compat.c doesn't
need them any longer.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
New helpers: user_statfs() and fd_statfs(), taking userland pathname and
descriptor resp. and filling struct kstatfs. Syscalls of statfs family
(native, compat and foreign - osf and hpux on alpha and parisc resp.)
switched to those. Removes some boilerplate code, simplifies cleanup
on errors...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Fix for a dumb preadv()/pwritev() compat bug - unlike the native
variants, compat_... ones forget to check FMODE_P{READ,WRITE}, so e.g.
on pipe the native preadv() will fail with -ESPIPE and compat one will
act as readv() and succeed. Not critical, but it's a clear bug with trivial
fix.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
f_flags and f_spare fields were not copied to userspace when
compat_sys_[f]statfs64 called.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The commit 7ed1ee6118 ("Take statfs variants to fs/statfs.c")
separates out statfs syscalls from fs/open.c. Thus the comment
should be changed also.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Note: this patch targets 2.6.37 and tries to be as simple as possible.
That is why it adds more copy-and-paste horror into fs/compat.c and
uglifies fs/exec.c, this will be cleanuped later.
compat_copy_strings() plays with bprm->vma/mm directly and thus has
two problems: it lacks the RLIMIT_STACK check and argv/envp memory
is not visible to oom killer.
Export acct_arg_size() and get_arg_page(), change compat_copy_strings()
to use get_arg_page(), change compat_do_execve() to do acct_arg_size(0)
as do_execve() does.
Add the fatal_signal_pending/cond_resched checks into compat_count() and
compat_copy_strings(), this matches the code in fs/exec.c and certainly
makes sense.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The definition of PAGE_CACHE_MASK in <linux/pagemap.h> is needed to use
MAX_RW_COUNT, and on x86-64 that gets done indirectly through the
architecture header includes. But on MIPS and s390 that doesn't happen,
and we need to make sure that fs/compat.c includes pagemap.h explicitly.
Introduced in commit 435f49a518 ("readv/writev: do the same
MAX_RW_COUNT truncation that read/write does").
Reported-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com> (S390)
Reported-by: wu zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com> (MIPS)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We used to protect against overflow, but rather than return an error, do
what read/write does, namely to limit the total size to MAX_RW_COUNT.
This is not only more consistent, but it also means that any broken
low-level read/write routine that still keeps counts in 'int' can't
break.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This merges the staging-next tree to Linus's tree and resolves
some conflicts that were present due to changes in other trees that were
affected by files here.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* 'for-2.6.37' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (99 commits)
svcrpc: svc_tcp_sendto XPT_DEAD check is redundant
svcrpc: no need for XPT_DEAD check in svc_xprt_enqueue
svcrpc: assume svc_delete_xprt() called only once
svcrpc: never clear XPT_BUSY on dead xprt
nfsd4: fix connection allocation in sequence()
nfsd4: only require krb5 principal for NFSv4.0 callbacks
nfsd4: move minorversion to client
nfsd4: delay session removal till free_client
nfsd4: separate callback change and callback probe
nfsd4: callback program number is per-session
nfsd4: track backchannel connections
nfsd4: confirm only on succesful create_session
nfsd4: make backchannel sequence number per-session
nfsd4: use client pointer to backchannel session
nfsd4: move callback setup into session init code
nfsd4: don't cache seq_misordered replies
SUNRPC: Properly initialize sock_xprt.srcaddr in all cases
SUNRPC: Use conventional switch statement when reclassifying sockets
sunrpc/xprtrdma: clean up workqueue usage
sunrpc: Turn list_for_each-s into the ..._entry-s
...
Fix up trivial conflicts (two different deprecation notices added in
separate branches) in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
smbfs has been scheduled for removal in 2.6.27, so
maybe we can now move it to drivers/staging on the
way out.
smbfs still uses the big kernel lock and nobody
is going to fix that, so we should be getting
rid of it soon.
This removes the 32 bit compat mount and ioctl
handling code, which is implemented in common fs
code, and moves all smbfs related files into
drivers/staging/smbfs.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
In 32-bit compatibility mode, the error handling for
compat_do_readv_writev() may free an uninitialized pointer, potentially
leading to all sorts of ugly memory corruption. This is reliably
triggerable by unprivileged users by invoking the readv()/writev()
syscalls with an invalid iovec pointer. The below patch fixes this to
emulate the non-compat version.
Introduced by commit b83733639a ("compat: factor out
compat_rw_copy_check_uvector from compat_do_readv_writev")
Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org (2.6.35)
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add CONFIG_NFSD_DEPRECATED, default to y.
Only include deprecated interface if this is defined.
This allows distros to remove this interface before the official
removal, and allows developers to test without it.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
