Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] mm/gup.c: Migrate device coherent pages when pinning instead of failing

[David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>]

On 07.02.22 05:26, Alistair Popple wrote:
> Currently any attempts to pin a device coherent page will fail. This is
> because device coherent pages need to be managed by a device driver, and
> pinning them would prevent a driver from migrating them off the device.
> 
> However this is no reason to fail pinning of these pages. These are
> coherent and accessible from the CPU so can be migrated just like
> pinning ZONE_MOVABLE pages. So instead of failing all attempts to pin
> them first try migrating them out of ZONE_DEVICE.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com>
> ---
> 
> Changes for v2:
> 
>  - Added Felix's Acked-by
>  - Fixed missing check for dpage == NULL
> 
>  mm/gup.c | 105 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 95 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
> index 56d9577..5e826db 100644
> --- a/mm/gup.c
> +++ b/mm/gup.c
> @@ -1861,6 +1861,60 @@ struct page *get_dump_page(unsigned long addr)
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
>  /*
> + * Migrates a device coherent page back to normal memory. Caller should have a
> + * reference on page which will be copied to the new page if migration is
> + * successful or dropped on failure.
> + */
> +static struct page *migrate_device_page(struct page *page,
> +					unsigned int gup_flags)
> +{
> +	struct page *dpage;
> +	struct migrate_vma args;
> +	unsigned long src_pfn, dst_pfn = 0;
> +
> +	lock_page(page);
> +	src_pfn = migrate_pfn(page_to_pfn(page)) | MIGRATE_PFN_MIGRATE;
> +	args.src = &src_pfn;
> +	args.dst = &dst_pfn;
> +	args.cpages = 1;
> +	args.npages = 1;
> +	args.vma = NULL;
> +	migrate_vma_setup(&args);
> +	if (!(src_pfn & MIGRATE_PFN_MIGRATE))
> +		return NULL;
> +
> +	dpage = alloc_pages(GFP_USER | __GFP_NOWARN, 0);
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * get/pin the new page now so we don't have to retry gup after
> +	 * migrating. We already have a reference so this should never fail.
> +	 */
> +	if (dpage && WARN_ON_ONCE(!try_grab_page(dpage, gup_flags))) {
> +		__free_pages(dpage, 0);
> +		dpage = NULL;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (dpage) {
> +		lock_page(dpage);
> +		dst_pfn = migrate_pfn(page_to_pfn(dpage));
> +	}
> +
> +	migrate_vma_pages(&args);
> +	if (src_pfn & MIGRATE_PFN_MIGRATE)
> +		copy_highpage(dpage, page);
> +	migrate_vma_finalize(&args);
> +	if (dpage && !(src_pfn & MIGRATE_PFN_MIGRATE)) {
> +		if (gup_flags & FOLL_PIN)
> +			unpin_user_page(dpage);
> +		else
> +			put_page(dpage);
> +		dpage = NULL;
> +	}
> +
> +	return dpage;
> +}
> +
> +/*
>   * Check whether all pages are pinnable, if so return number of pages.  If some
>   * pages are not pinnable, migrate them, and unpin all pages. Return zero if
>   * pages were migrated, or if some pages were not successfully isolated.
> @@ -1888,15 +1942,40 @@ static long check_and_migrate_movable_pages(unsigned long nr_pages,
>  			continue;
>  		prev_head = head;
>  		/*
> -		 * If we get a movable page, since we are going to be pinning
> -		 * these entries, try to move them out if possible.
> +		 * Device coherent pages are managed by a driver and should not
> +		 * be pinned indefinitely as it prevents the driver moving the
> +		 * page. So when trying to pin with FOLL_LONGTERM instead try
> +		 * migrating page out of device memory.
>  		 */
>  		if (is_dev_private_or_coherent_page(head)) {
> +			/*
> +			 * device private pages will get faulted in during gup
> +			 * so it shouldn't be possible to see one here.
> +			 */
>  			WARN_ON_ONCE(is_device_private_page(head));
> -			ret = -EFAULT;
> -			goto unpin_pages;
> +			WARN_ON_ONCE(PageCompound(head));
> +
> +			/*
> +			 * migration will fail if the page is pinned, so convert
> +			 * the pin on the source page to a normal reference.
> +			 */
> +			if (gup_flags & FOLL_PIN) {
> +				get_page(head);
> +				unpin_user_page(head);
> +			}
> +
> +			pages[i] = migrate_device_page(head, gup_flags);



For ordinary migrate_pages(), we'll unpin all pages and return 0 so the
caller will retry pinning by walking the page tables again.

Why can't we apply the same mechanism here? This "let's avoid another
walk" looks unnecessary complicated to me, but I might be wrong.

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb