On 12/9/2021 10:29 AM, Felix Kuehling wrote:
> Am 2021-12-09 um 5:53 a.m. schrieb Alistair Popple:
>> On Thursday, 9 December 2021 5:55:26 AM AEDT Sierra Guiza, Alejandro (Alex) wrote:
>>> On 12/8/2021 11:30 AM, Felix Kuehling wrote:
>>>> Am 2021-12-08 um 11:58 a.m. schrieb Felix Kuehling:
>>>>> Am 2021-12-08 um 6:31 a.m. schrieb Alistair Popple:
>>>>>> On Tuesday, 7 December 2021 5:52:43 AM AEDT Alex Sierra wrote:
>>>>>>> Avoid long term pinning for Coherent device type pages. This could
>>>>>>> interfere with their own device memory manager.
>>>>>>> If caller tries to get user device coherent pages with PIN_LONGTERM flag
>>>>>>> set, those pages will be migrated back to system memory.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Alex Sierra<alex.sierra@amd.com>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>    mm/gup.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>>>>>>>    1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
>>>>>>> index 886d6148d3d0..1572eacf07f4 100644
>>>>>>> --- a/mm/gup.c
>>>>>>> +++ b/mm/gup.c
>>>>>>> @@ -1689,17 +1689,37 @@ struct page *get_dump_page(unsigned long addr)
>>>>>>>    #endif /* CONFIG_ELF_CORE */
>>>>>>>    
>>>>>>>    #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
>>>>>>> +static int migrate_device_page(unsigned long address,
>>>>>>> +				struct page *page)
>>>>>>> +{
>>>>>>> +	struct vm_area_struct *vma = find_vma(current->mm, address);
>>>>>>> +	struct vm_fault vmf = {
>>>>>>> +		.vma = vma,
>>>>>>> +		.address = address & PAGE_MASK,
>>>>>>> +		.flags = FAULT_FLAG_USER,
>>>>>>> +		.pgoff = linear_page_index(vma, address),
>>>>>>> +		.gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL,
>>>>>>> +		.page = page,
>>>>>>> +	};
>>>>>>> +	if (page->pgmap && page->pgmap->ops->migrate_to_ram)
>>>>>>> +		return page->pgmap->ops->migrate_to_ram(&vmf);
>>>>>> How does this synchronise against pgmap being released? As I understand things
>>>>>> at this point we're not holding a reference on either the page or pgmap, so
>>>>>> the page and therefore the pgmap may have been freed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think a similar problem exists for device private fault handling as well and
>>>>>> it has been on my list of things to fix for a while. I think the solution is to
>>>>>> call try_get_page(), except it doesn't work with device pages due to the whole
>>>>>> refcount thing. That issue is blocking a fair bit of work now so I've started
>>>>>> looking into it.
>>>>> At least the page should have been pinned by the __get_user_pages_locked
>>>>> call in __gup_longterm_locked. That refcount is dropped in
>>>>> check_and_migrate_movable_pages when it returns 0 or an error.
>>>> Never mind. We unpin the pages first. Alex, would the migration work if
>>>> we unpinned them afterwards? Also, the normal CPU page fault code path
>>>> seems to make sure the page is locked (check in pfn_swap_entry_to_page)
>>>> before calling migrate_to_ram.
>> I don't think that's true. The check in pfn_swap_entry_to_page() is only for
>> migration entries:
>>
>> 	BUG_ON(is_migration_entry(entry) && !PageLocked(p));
>>
>> As this is coherent memory though why do we have to call into a device driver
>> to do the migration? Couldn't this all be done in the kernel?
> I think you're right. I hadn't thought of that mainly because I'm even
> less familiar with the non-device migration code. Alex, can you give
> that a try? As long as the driver still gets a page-free callback when
> the device page is freed, it should work.

ACK.Will do

Alex Sierra

> Regards,
>    Felix
>
>
>>> No, you can not unpinned after migration. Due to the expected_count VS
>>> page_count condition at migrate_page_move_mapping, during migrate_page call.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Alex Sierra
>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>     Felix
>>>>
>>>>
>>