On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 10:57:44 -0400
Jerome Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 02:12:15PM +1000, Balbir Singh wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Jul 2017 17:14:12 -0400
> > Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Platform with advance system bus (like CAPI or CCIX) allow device
> > > memory to be accessible from CPU in a cache coherent fashion. Add
> > > a new type of ZONE_DEVICE to represent such memory. The use case
> > > are the same as for the un-addressable device memory but without
> > > all the corners cases.
> > >
> >
> > Looks good overall, some comments inline.
> >
>
> [...]
>
> > > /*
> > > @@ -92,6 +100,8 @@ enum memory_type {
> > > * The page_free() callback is called once the page refcount reaches 1
> > > * (ZONE_DEVICE pages never reach 0 refcount unless there is a refcount bug.
> > > * This allows the device driver to implement its own memory management.)
> > > + *
> > > + * For MEMORY_DEVICE_CACHE_COHERENT only the page_free() callback matter.
> >
> > Correct, but I wonder if we should in the long term allow for minor faults
> > (due to coherency) via this interface?
>
> This is something we can explore latter on.
>
> [...]
>
Agreed
> > > diff --git a/kernel/memremap.c b/kernel/memremap.c
> > > index e82456c39a6a..da74775f2247 100644
> > > --- a/kernel/memremap.c
> > > +++ b/kernel/memremap.c
> > > @@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ struct vmem_altmap *to_vmem_altmap(unsigned long memmap_start)
> > >
> > >
> > > #ifdef CONFIG_DEVICE_PRIVATE
> >
> > Does the #ifdef above need to go as well?
>
> Good catch i should make that conditional on DEVICE_PUBLIC or whatever
> the name endup to be. I will make sure i test without DEVICE_PRIVATE
> config before posting again.
>
> [...]
>
I've been testing with this off, I should have sent you a patch, but
I thought I'd also update in the review.
> > > @@ -2541,11 +2551,21 @@ static void migrate_vma_insert_page(struct migrate_vma *migrate,
> > > */
> > > __SetPageUptodate(page);
> > >
> > > - if (is_zone_device_page(page) && is_device_private_page(page)) {
> > > - swp_entry_t swp_entry;
> > > + if (is_zone_device_page(page)) {
> > > + if (is_device_private_page(page)) {
> > > + swp_entry_t swp_entry;
> > >
> > > - swp_entry = make_device_private_entry(page, vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE);
> > > - entry = swp_entry_to_pte(swp_entry);
> > > + swp_entry = make_device_private_entry(page, vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE);
> > > + entry = swp_entry_to_pte(swp_entry);
> > > + }
> > > +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEVICE_PUBLIC)
> >
> > Do we need this #if check? is_device_public_page(page)
> > will return false if the config is disabled
>
> pte_mkdevmap() is not define if ZONE_DEVICE is not enabled hence
> i had to protect this with #if/#endif to avoid build error.
pte_mkdevmap is always defined, could you please share the build
error.
Balbir Singh.
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