similar to: [PATCHv3 1/2] mm: move use_mm/unuse_mm from aio.c to mm/

vhost net module wants to do copy to/from user from a kernel thread, which needs use_mm (like what fs/aio has). Move that into mm/ and export to modules. Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com> --- fs/aio.c | 47 +---------------------------------- include/linux/mmu_context.h | 9 ++++++

vhost net module wants to do copy to/from user from a kernel thread, which needs use_mm (like what fs/aio has). Move that into mm/ and export to modules. Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com> --- fs/aio.c | 47 +---------------------------------- include/linux/mmu_context.h | 9 ++++++

vhost net module wants to do copy to/from user from a kernel thread, which needs use_mm (like what fs/aio has). Move that into mm/ and export to modules. Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange at redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com> --- fs/aio.c | 47

vhost net module wants to do copy to/from user from a kernel thread, which needs use_mm (like what fs/aio has). Move that into mm/ and export to modules. Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange at redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com> --- fs/aio.c | 47

vhost net module wants to do copy to/from user from a kernel thread, which needs use_mm (like what fs/aio has). Move that into mm/ and export to modules. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com> --- fs/aio.c | 47 +---------------------------------- include/linux/mmu_context.h | 9 ++++++ mm/Makefile | 2 +- mm/mmu_context.c

vhost net module wants to do copy to/from user from a kernel thread, which needs use_mm (like what fs/aio has). Move that into mm/ and export to modules. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com> --- fs/aio.c | 47 +---------------------------------- include/linux/mmu_context.h | 9 ++++++ mm/Makefile | 2 +- mm/mmu_context.c

vhost net module wants to do copy to/from user from a kernel thread, which needs use_mm (like what fs/aio has). Move that into mm/ and export to modules. Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange at redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com> --- fs/aio.c | 47

vhost net module wants to do copy to/from user from a kernel thread, which needs use_mm (like what fs/aio has). Move that into mm/ and export to modules. Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange at redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com> --- fs/aio.c | 47

These helpers are only for use with kernel threads, and I will tie them more into the kthread infrastructure going forward. Also move the prototypes to kthread.h - mmu_context.h was a little weird to start with as it otherwise contains very low-level MM bits. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de> --- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_amdkfd.h | 1 +

When mm switched to matches that of active mm, we don't need to increment and then drop the mm count. In a simple benchmark this happens in about 50% of time. Making that conditional reduces contention on that cache line on SMP systems. Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange at redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com> --- mm/mmu_context.c | 9 ++++++---

When mm switched to matches that of active mm, we don't need to increment and then drop the mm count. In a simple benchmark this happens in about 50% of time. Making that conditional reduces contention on that cache line on SMP systems. Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange at redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com> --- mm/mmu_context.c | 9 ++++++---

Switch the function documentation to kerneldoc comments, and add WARN_ON_ONCE asserts that the calling thread is a kernel thread and does not have ->mm set (or has ->mm set in the case of unuse_mm). Also give the functions a kthread_ prefix to better document the use case. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de> --- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_amdkfd.h | 4 +--

Switch the function documentation to kerneldoc comments, and add WARN_ON_ONCE asserts that the calling thread is a kernel thread and does not have ->mm set (or has ->mm set in the case of unuse_mm). Also give the functions a kthread_ prefix to better document the use case. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de> Acked-by: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling at amd.com> ---

When mm switched to matches that of active mm, we don't need to increment and then drop the mm count. Making that conditional reduces contention on that cache line on SMP systems. Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange at redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com> --- mm/mmu_context.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff

When mm switched to matches that of active mm, we don't need to increment and then drop the mm count. Making that conditional reduces contention on that cache line on SMP systems. Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange at redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com> --- mm/mmu_context.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff

Hi all, this series improves the use_mm / unuse_mm interface by better documenting the assumptions, and my taking the set_fs manipulations spread over the callers into the core API. Changes since v1: - drop a few patches - fix a comment typo - cover the newly merged use_mm/unuse_mm caller in vfio

Hi all, this series improves the use_mm / unuse_mm interface by better documenting the assumptions, and my taking the set_fs manipulations spread over the callers into the core API. Changes since v1: - drop a few patches - fix a comment typo - cover the newly merged use_mm/unuse_mm caller in vfio

Hi all, this series improves the use_mm / unuse_mm interface by better documenting the assumptions, and my taking the set_fs manipulations spread over the callers into the core API.

Hi all, this series improves the use_mm / unuse_mm interface by better documenting the assumptions, and my taking the set_fs manipulations spread over the callers into the core API.

This implements vhost: a kernel-level backend for virtio, The main motivation for this work is to reduce virtualization overhead for virtio by removing system calls on data path, without guest changes. For virtio-net, this removes up to 4 system calls per packet: vm exit for kick, reentry for kick, iothread wakeup for packet, interrupt injection for packet. Some more detailed description attached