On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 06:18:29PM +1100, Alistair Popple wrote: > Some devices require exclusive write access to shared virtual > memory (SVM) ranges to perform atomic operations on that memory. This > requires CPU page tables to be updated to deny access whilst atomic > operations are occurring. > > In order to do this introduce a new swap entry > type (SWP_DEVICE_EXCLUSIVE). When a SVM range needs to be marked for > exclusive access by a device all page table mappings for the particular > range are replaced with device exclusive swap entries. This causes any > CPU access to the page to result in a fault. > > Faults are resovled by replacing the faulting entry with the original > mapping. This results in MMU notifiers being called which a driver uses > to update access permissions such as revoking atomic access. After > notifiers have been called the device will no longer have exclusive > access to the region. This makes alot more sense than the prior versions! I don't know the migration area especially well, but nothing caught my eye in here Jason
