Re: [PATCH v1 13/15] mm: handling Non-LRU pages returned by vm_normal_pages

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On 5/11/2022 1:50 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 04:34:36PM -0500, Alex Sierra wrote:

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 76e3af9639d9..892c4cc54dc2 100644
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -621,6 +621,13 @@ 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: Technically this should goto check_pfn label. However, page->_mapcount
+ * is never incremented for device pages that are mmap through DAX mechanism
+ * using pmem driver mounted into ext4 filesystem. When these pages are unmap,
+ * zap_pte_range is called and vm_normal_page return a valid page with
+ * page_mapcount() = 0, before page_remove_rmap is called.
+ */
  			return NULL;
? Where does this series cause device coherent to be returned?
In our case, device coherent pages could be obtained as a result of migration(Patches 6/7 of 15), ending up mapped in CPU page tables. Later on, these pages might need to be returned by get_user_pages or other callers through vm_normal_pages. Our approach in this series, is to handle device-coherent-managed pages returned by vm_normal_pages, inside each caller. EX. device coherent pages don’t support LRU lists, NUMA migration or THP.

Wasn't the plan to not set pte_devmap() ?

amdgpu does not set pte_devmap for our DEVICE_COHERENT pages. DEVMAP flags are set by drivers like virtio_fs or pmem, where MEMORY_DEVICE_FS_DAX type is used. This patch series deals with DEVICE_COHERENT pages. My understanding was, that the DAX code and DEVICE_GENERIC would be fixed up later by someone more familiar with it. Were you expecting that we'd fix the DAX usage of pte_devmap flags in this patch series as well?

Regards,
Alex Sierra


Jason




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