On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 10:41:56AM -0400, jgli...@redhat.com wrote:
> From: Ralph Campbell <rcampb...@nvidia.com>
>
> Private ZONE_DEVICE pages use a special pte entry and thus are not
> present. Properly handle this case in map_pte(), it is already handled
> in check_pte(), the map_pte() part was lost in some rebase most probably.
>
> Without this patch the slow migration path can not migrate back private
> ZONE_DEVICE memory to regular memory. This was found after stress
> testing migration back to system memory. This ultimatly can lead the
> CPU to an infinite page fault loop on the special swap entry.
>
> Changes since v1:
> - properly lock pte directory in map_pte()
>
> Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampb...@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse <jgli...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsinghar...@gmail.com>
> Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
> ---
> mm/page_vma_mapped.c | 9 ++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/page_vma_mapped.c b/mm/page_vma_mapped.c
> index ae3c2a35d61b..bd67e23dce33 100644
> --- a/mm/page_vma_mapped.c
> +++ b/mm/page_vma_mapped.c
> @@ -21,7 +21,14 @@ static bool map_pte(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw)
> if (!is_swap_pte(*pvmw->pte))
> return false;
> } else {
> - if (!pte_present(*pvmw->pte))
> + if (is_swap_pte(*pvmw->pte)) {
> + swp_entry_t entry;
> +
> + /* Handle un-addressable ZONE_DEVICE memory */
> + entry = pte_to_swp_entry(*pvmw->pte);
> + if (!is_device_private_entry(entry))
> + return false;
OK, so we skip this pte from unmap since it's already unmapped? This prevents
try_to_unmap from unmapping it and it gets restored with MIGRATE_PFN_MIGRATE
flag cleared?
Sounds like the right thing, if I understand it correctly
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsinghar...@gmail.com>
Balbir Singh.
