On Wed, 29 Jun 2022 11:59:26 +0200 David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 29.06.22 05:54, Alex Sierra wrote: > > With DEVICE_COHERENT, we'll soon have vm_normal_pages() return > > device-managed anonymous pages that are not LRU pages. Although they > > behave like normal pages for purposes of mapping in CPU page, and for > > COW. They do not support LRU lists, NUMA migration or THP. > > > > Callers to follow_page that expect LRU pages, are also checked for > > device zone pages due to DEVICE_COHERENT type. > > Can we rephrase that to (because zeropage) > > "Callers to follow_page() currently don't expect ZONE_DEVICE pages, > however, with DEVICE_COHERENT we might now return ZONE_DEVICE. Check for > ZONE_DEVICE pages in applicable users of follow_page() as well." I made that change to my copy. > > --- a/mm/memory.c > > +++ b/mm/memory.c > > @@ -624,6 +624,13 @@ struct page *vm_normal_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, > > if (is_zero_pfn(pfn)) > > return NULL; > > if (pte_devmap(pte)) > > +/* > > + * NOTE: New uers of ZONE_DEVICE will not set pte_devmap() and will have > > s/uers/users/ > > > + * refcounts incremented on their struct pages when they are inserted into > > + * PTEs, thus they are safe to return here. Legacy ZONE_DEVICE pages that set > > + * pte_devmap() do not have refcounts. Example of legacy ZONE_DEVICE is > > + * MEMORY_DEVICE_FS_DAX type in pmem or virtio_fs drivers. > > + */ And let's regularize that comment placement? --- a/mm/memory.c~mm-handling-non-lru-pages-returned-by-vm_normal_pages-fix +++ a/mm/memory.c @@ -632,16 +632,16 @@ struct page *vm_normal_page(struct vm_ar return NULL; if (is_zero_pfn(pfn)) return NULL; + /* + * NOTE: New users of ZONE_DEVICE will not set pte_devmap() + * and will have refcounts incremented on their struct pages + * when they are inserted into PTEs, thus they are safe to + * return here. Legacy ZONE_DEVICE pages that set pte_devmap() + * do not have refcounts. Example of legacy ZONE_DEVICE is + * MEMORY_DEVICE_FS_DAX type in pmem or virtio_fs drivers. + */ if (pte_devmap(pte)) -/* - * NOTE: New uers of ZONE_DEVICE will not set pte_devmap() and will have - * refcounts incremented on their struct pages when they are inserted into - * PTEs, thus they are safe to return here. Legacy ZONE_DEVICE pages that set - * pte_devmap() do not have refcounts. Example of legacy ZONE_DEVICE is - * MEMORY_DEVICE_FS_DAX type in pmem or virtio_fs drivers. - */ return NULL; - print_bad_pte(vma, addr, pte, NULL); return NULL; } _
