[PATCH 2/4] mm/hmm: allow snapshot of the special zero page
Ralph Campbell
rcampbell at nvidia.com
Wed Sep 11 22:28:27 UTC 2019
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.
Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell at nvidia.com>
Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse at redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at mellanox.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
---
mm/hmm.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/hmm.c b/mm/hmm.c
index 06041d4399ff..7217912bef13 100644
--- a/mm/hmm.c
+++ b/mm/hmm.c
@@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ 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;
+ return is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pte)) ? 0 : -EFAULT;
}
*pfn = hmm_device_entry_from_pfn(range, pte_pfn(pte)) | cpu_flags;
--
2.20.1
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