ensure device private pages have an owner v2

Jason Gunthorpe jgg at ziepe.ca
Thu Mar 19 00:28:49 UTC 2020


On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 08:32:12PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> When acting on device private mappings a driver needs to know if the
> device (or other entity in case of kvmppc) actually owns this private
> mapping.  This series adds an owner field and converts the migrate_vma
> code over to check it.  I looked into doing the same for
> hmm_range_fault, but as far as I can tell that code has never been
> wired up to actually work for device private memory, so instead of
> trying to fix some unused code the second patch just remove the code.
> We can add it back once we have a working and fully tested code, and
> then should pass the expected owner in the hmm_range structure.
> 
> Changes since v1:
>  - split out the pgmap->owner addition into a separate patch
>  - check pgmap->owner is set for device private mappings
>  - rename the dev_private_owner field in struct migrate_vma to src_owner
>  - refuse to migrate private pages if src_owner is not set
>  - keep the non-fault device private handling in hmm_range_fault

I'm happy enough to take this, did you have plans for a v3?

Thanks,
Jason


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