Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] mm/hmm: allow snapshot of the special zero page

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On 10/21/19 11:49 AM, Jerome Glisse wrote:
On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 01:48:13PM -0700, Ralph Campbell wrote:
Allow hmm_range_fault() to return success (0) when the CPU pagetable
entry points to the special shared zero page.
The caller can then handle the zero page by possibly clearing device
private memory instead of DMAing a zero page.

I do not understand why you are talking about DMA. GPU can work
on main memory and migrating to GPU memory is optional and should
not involve this function at all.

Good point. This is the device accessing the zero page over PCIe
or another bus, not migrating a zero page to device private memory.
I'll update the wording.


Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

NAK please keep semantic or change it fully. See the alternative
below.

---
  mm/hmm.c | 4 +++-
  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/hmm.c b/mm/hmm.c
index 5df0dbf77e89..f62b119722a3 100644
--- a/mm/hmm.c
+++ b/mm/hmm.c
@@ -530,7 +530,9 @@ static int hmm_vma_handle_pte(struct mm_walk *walk, unsigned long addr,
  			return -EBUSY;
  	} else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL) && pte_special(pte)) {
  		*pfn = range->values[HMM_PFN_SPECIAL];
-		return -EFAULT;
+		if (!is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pte)))
+			return -EFAULT;
+		return 0;

An acceptable change would be to turn the branch into:
	} else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL) && pte_special(pte)) {
		if (!is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pte))) {
			*pfn = range->values[HMM_PFN_SPECIAL];
			return -EFAULT;
		}
		/* Fall-through for zero pfn (if write was needed the above
		 * hmm_pte_need_faul() would had catched it).
		 */
	}


Except this will return the zero pfn with no indication that it is special
(i.e., doesn't have a struct page).




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