[PATCH hmm 8/8] mm/hmm: add missing call to hmm_pte_need_fault in HMM_PFN_SPECIAL handling

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Mon Mar 16 12:49:53 UTC 2020


On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 09:10:53AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 10:13:47AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 03:35:06PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at mellanox.com>
> > > 
> > > Currently if a special PTE is encountered hmm_range_fault() immediately
> > > returns EFAULT and sets the HMM_PFN_SPECIAL error output (which nothing
> > > uses).
> > > 
> > > EFAULT should only be returned after testing with hmm_pte_need_fault().
> > > 
> > > Also pte_devmap() and pte_special() are exclusive, and there is no need to
> > > check IS_ENABLED, pte_special() is stubbed out to return false on
> > > unsupported architectures.
> > 
> > I think the right fix is to just kill HMM_PFN_SPECIAL and treat any
> > fault on special ptes that aren't the zero page as an error.
>  
> I have another series that is doing that - this change is to make the
> next series make sense and not introduce new control logic too.

Ok.  I had some cleanups like this based of older trees, but if you are
active in this area I think I'll let you handle it.

> Even when this is switched to ERROR it still needs to have the
> hmm_range_fault() logic this patch introduces.

True.


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