Just as a side note, can you please CC me on the whole series next time?
Because this time I had to look up e.g. the introductory email in the
mailing list... Thanks!
On Sat 10-11-18 00:50:41, john.hubb...@gmail.com wrote:
> From: John Hubbard <jhubb...@nvidia.com>
>
> This patch sets and restores the new page->dma_pinned_flags and
> page->dma_pinned_count fields, but does not actually use them for
> anything yet.
>
> In order to use these fields at all, the page must be removed from
> any LRU list that it's on. The patch also adds some precautions that
> prevent the page from getting moved back onto an LRU, once it is
> in this state.
>
> This is in preparation to fix some problems that came up when using
> devices (NICs, GPUs, for example) that set up direct access to a chunk
> of system (CPU) memory, so that they can DMA to/from that memory.
>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <wi...@infradead.org>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mho...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Christopher Lameter <c...@linux.com>
> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <j...@ziepe.ca>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com>
> Cc: Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz>
> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubb...@nvidia.com>
> ---
> include/linux/mm.h | 19 +++++----------
> mm/gup.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> mm/memcontrol.c | 8 +++++++
> mm/swap.c | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 4 files changed, 125 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index 09fbb2c81aba..6c64b1e0b777 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -950,6 +950,10 @@ static inline void put_page(struct page *page)
> {
> page = compound_head(page);
>
> + VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageDmaPinned(page) &&
> + page_ref_count(page) <
> + atomic_read(&page->dma_pinned_count),
> + page);
> /*
> * For devmap managed pages we need to catch refcount transition from
> * 2 to 1, when refcount reach one it means the page is free and we
> @@ -964,21 +968,10 @@ static inline void put_page(struct page *page)
> }
>
> /*
> - * put_user_page() - release a page that had previously been acquired via
> - * a call to one of the get_user_pages*() functions.
> - *
> * Pages that were pinned via get_user_pages*() must be released via
> - * either put_user_page(), or one of the put_user_pages*() routines
> - * below. This is so that eventually, pages that are pinned via
> - * get_user_pages*() can be separately tracked and uniquely handled. In
> - * particular, interactions with RDMA and filesystems need special
> - * handling.
> + * one of these put_user_pages*() routines:
> */
> -static inline void put_user_page(struct page *page)
> -{
> - put_page(page);
> -}
> -
> +void put_user_page(struct page *page);
> void put_user_pages_dirty(struct page **pages, unsigned long npages);
> void put_user_pages_dirty_lock(struct page **pages, unsigned long npages);
> void put_user_pages(struct page **pages, unsigned long npages);
> diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
> index 55a41dee0340..ec1b26591532 100644
> --- a/mm/gup.c
> +++ b/mm/gup.c
> @@ -25,6 +25,50 @@ struct follow_page_context {
> unsigned int page_mask;
> };
>
> +static void pin_page_for_dma(struct page *page)
> +{
> + int ret = 0;
> + struct zone *zone;
> +
> + page = compound_head(page);
> + zone = page_zone(page);
> +
> + spin_lock(zone_gup_lock(zone));
A think you'll need irqsafe lock here as get_user_pages_fast() can get
called from interrupt context in some cases. And so can put_user_page()...
<snip>
> +/*
> + * put_user_page() - release a page that had previously been acquired via
> + * a call to one of the get_user_pages*() functions.
> + *
> + * Usage: Pages that were pinned via get_user_pages*() must be released via
> + * either put_user_page(), or one of the put_user_pages*() routines
> + * below. This is so that eventually, pages that are pinned via
> + * get_user_pages*() can be separately tracked and uniquely handled. In
> + * particular, interactions with RDMA and filesystems need special
> + * handling.
> + */
> +void put_user_page(struct page *page)
> +{
> + struct zone *zone = page_zone(page);
> +
> + page = compound_head(page);
> +
> + if (atomic_dec_and_test(&page->dma_pinned_count)) {
> + spin_lock(zone_gup_lock(zone));
> + /* Re-check while holding the lock, because
> + * pin_page_for_dma() or get_page() may have snuck in right
> + * after the atomic_dec_and_test, and raised the count
> + * above zero again. If so, just leave the flag set. And
> + * because the atomic_dec_and_test above already got the
> + * accounting correct, no other action is required.
> + */
> + VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageLRU(page), page);
> + VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageDmaPinned(page), page);
> +
> + if (atomic_read(&page->dma_pinned_count) == 0) {
We have atomic_dec_and_lock[_irqsave]() exactly for constructs like this.
> + ClearPageDmaPinned(page);
> +
> + if (PageDmaPinnedWasLru(page)) {
> + ClearPageDmaPinnedWasLru(page);
> + putback_lru_page(page);
> + }
> + }
> +
> + spin_unlock(zone_gup_lock(zone));
> + }
> +
> + put_page(page);
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(put_user_page);
> +
Honza
--
Jan Kara <j...@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR
