On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM Sooyong Suk <s.suk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 7, 2025 at 12:26 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 04:40:56PM +0900, Sooyong Suk wrote: > > > > There are GUP references to pages that are serving as direct IO > > buffers. > > > > Those pages can be allocated from CMA pageblocks despite they can be > > > > pinned until the DIO is completed. > > > > > > direct I/O is eactly the case that is not FOLL_LONGTERM and one of the > > > reasons to even have the flag. So big fat no to this. > > > > > > > Understood. > > > Hello, thank you for your comment. > > We, Sooyong and I, wanted to get some opinions about this FOLL_LONGTERM > > for direct I/O as CMA memory got pinned pages which had been pinned from > > direct io. > > > > > You also completely failed to address the relevant mailinglist and > > > maintainers. > > > > I added block maintainer Jens Axboe and the block layer maillinst here, > > and added Suren and Sandeep, too. I'm very far from being a block layer expert :) > > Then, what do you think of using PF_MEMALLOC_PIN for this context as below? > This will only remove __GFP_MOVABLE from its allocation flag. > Since __bio_iov_iter_get_pages() indicates that it will pin user or kernel pages, > there seems to be no reason not to use this process flag. I think this will help you only when the pages are faulted in but if __get_user_pages() finds an already mapped page which happens to be allocated from CMA, it will not migrate it. So, you might still end up with unmovable pages inside CMA. > > block/bio.c | 3 +++ > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c > index 65c796ecb..671e28966 100644 > --- a/block/bio.c > +++ b/block/bio.c > @@ -1248,6 +1248,7 @@ static int __bio_iov_iter_get_pages(struct bio *bio, struct iov_iter *iter) > unsigned len, i = 0; > size_t offset; > int ret = 0; > + unsigned int flags; > > /* > * Move page array up in the allocated memory for the bio vecs as far as > @@ -1267,9 +1268,11 @@ static int __bio_iov_iter_get_pages(struct bio *bio, struct iov_iter *iter) > * result to ensure the bio's total size is correct. The remainder of > * the iov data will be picked up in the next bio iteration. > */ > + flags = memalloc_pin_save(); > size = iov_iter_extract_pages(iter, &pages, > UINT_MAX - bio->bi_iter.bi_size, > nr_pages, extraction_flags, &offset); > + memalloc_pin_restore(flags); > if (unlikely(size <= 0)) > return size ? size : -EFAULT; > >
