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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 10/19] net: skb: Switch to using vm_account
On Mon, Feb 06, 2023 at 03:36:49PM +1100, Alistair Popple wrote:

> >> But then I don't really know how RDS works, Santos?
> >>
> >> Regardless, maybe the vm_account should be stored in the
> >> rds_msg_zcopy_info ?
> >
> > On first glance that looks like a better spot. Thanks for the
> > idea.
>
> That works fine for RDS but not for skbuff.

I would definately put the RDS stuff like that..

> We still need a vm_account in the struct sock or somewhere else for
> that. For example in msg_zerocopy_realloc() we only have a struct
> ubuf_info_msgzc available. We can't add a struct vm_account field to
> that because ultimately it is stored in struct sk_buff->ck[] which
> is not large enough to contain ubuf_info_msgzc + vm_account.

Well, AFAICT this is using iov_iter to get the pages and in general
iov_iter - eg as used for O_DIRECT - doesn't charge anything.

If this does somehow allow a userspace to hold pin a page for a long
time then it is already technically wrong because it doesn't use
FOLL_LONGTERM.

Arguably FOLL_LONGTERM should be the key precondition to require
accounting.

So I wonder if it should just be deleted?

Jason

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