Re: [PATCH] mm/rmap.c: Avoid double faults migrating device private pages

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On 10/17/21 21:52, Alistair Popple wrote:
During migration special page table entries are installed for each page
being migrated. These entries store the pfn and associated permissions
of ptes mapping the page being migarted.

s/migarted/migrated/


Device-private pages use special swap pte entries to distinguish
read-only vs. writeable pages which the migration code checks when
creating migration entries. Normally this follows a fast path in
migrate_vma_collect_pmd() which correctly copies the permissions of
device-private pages over to migration entries when migrating pages back
to the CPU.

However the slow-path falls back to using try_to_migrate() which
unconditionally creates read-only migration entries for device-private
pages. This leads to unnecessary double faults on the CPU as the new
pages are always mapped read-only even when they could be mapped
writeable. Fix this by correctly copying device-private permissions in
try_to_migrate_one().

Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
  mm/rmap.c | 8 ++++++--
  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


Looks very clearly correct to me.

Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>

thanks,
--
John Hubbard
NVIDIA


diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index b9eb5c12f3fe..271de8118cdd 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -1804,6 +1804,7 @@ static bool try_to_migrate_one(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
  		update_hiwater_rss(mm);
if (is_zone_device_page(page)) {
+			unsigned long pfn = page_to_pfn(page);
  			swp_entry_t entry;
  			pte_t swp_pte;
@@ -1812,8 +1813,11 @@ static bool try_to_migrate_one(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
  			 * pte. do_swap_page() will wait until the migration
  			 * pte is removed and then restart fault handling.
  			 */
-			entry = make_readable_migration_entry(
-							page_to_pfn(page));
+			entry = pte_to_swp_entry(pteval);
+			if (is_writable_device_private_entry(entry))
+				entry = make_writable_migration_entry(pfn);
+			else
+				entry = make_readable_migration_entry(pfn);
  			swp_pte = swp_entry_to_pte(entry);
/*






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