[PATCH v5 00/13] Support DEVICE_GENERIC memory in migrate_vma_*
Sierra Guiza, Alejandro (Alex)
alex.sierra at amd.com
Fri Aug 13 05:18:50 UTC 2021
On 8/12/2021 1:34 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Do you have a pointer to a git branch with this series and all dependencies
> to ease testing?
Hi Christoph,
Yes, actually tomorrow we're planning to send a new version with
detailed instructions
on how to setup and run each of the tests. This will also contain a link
to download our
kernel repo with all these patches.
Regards,
Alejandro S.
>
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 01:30:47AM -0500, Alex Sierra wrote:
>> v1:
>> AMD is building a system architecture for the Frontier supercomputer with a
>> coherent interconnect between CPUs and GPUs. This hardware architecture allows
>> the CPUs to coherently access GPU device memory. We have hardware in our labs
>> and we are working with our partner HPE on the BIOS, firmware and software
>> for delivery to the DOE.
>>
>> The system BIOS advertises the GPU device memory (aka VRAM) as SPM
>> (special purpose memory) in the UEFI system address map. The amdgpu driver looks
>> it up with lookup_resource and registers it with devmap as MEMORY_DEVICE_GENERIC
>> using devm_memremap_pages.
>>
>> Now we're trying to migrate data to and from that memory using the migrate_vma_*
>> helpers so we can support page-based migration in our unified memory allocations,
>> while also supporting CPU access to those pages.
>>
>> This patch series makes a few changes to make MEMORY_DEVICE_GENERIC pages behave
>> correctly in the migrate_vma_* helpers. We are looking for feedback about this
>> approach. If we're close, what's needed to make our patches acceptable upstream?
>> If we're not close, any suggestions how else to achieve what we are trying to do
>> (i.e. page migration and coherent CPU access to VRAM)?
>>
>> This work is based on HMM and our SVM memory manager that was recently upstreamed
>> to Dave Airlie's drm-next branch
>> https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcgit.freedesktop.org%2Fdrm%2Fdrm%2Flog%2F%3Fh%3Ddrm-next&data=04%7C01%7Calex.sierra%40amd.com%7Ce4e14caf03de403b1e2208d95d5b378b%7C3dd8961fe4884e608e11a82d994e183d%7C0%7C0%7C637643468663206442%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=W7NRFXF0t1bqAzsV1RZh4MAPly26c7XPn8kCKvaj%2FMw%3D&reserved=0
>> On top of that we did some rework of our VRAM management for migrations to remove
>> some incorrect assumptions, allow partially successful migrations and GPU memory
>> mappings that mix pages in VRAM and system memory.
>> https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flore.kernel.org%2Fdri-devel%2F20210527205606.2660-6-Felix.Kuehling%40amd.com%2FT%2F%23r996356015e295780eb50453e7dbd5d0d68b47cbc&data=04%7C01%7Calex.sierra%40amd.com%7Ce4e14caf03de403b1e2208d95d5b378b%7C3dd8961fe4884e608e11a82d994e183d%7C0%7C0%7C637643468663206442%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=GZZrxedpAlYLfDgO1Y3jvpFacG313SXiUT3ErB4xO0Q%3D&reserved=0
>>
>> v2:
>> This patch series version has merged "[RFC PATCH v3 0/2]
>> mm: remove extra ZONE_DEVICE struct page refcount" patch series made by
>> Ralph Campbell. It also applies at the top of these series, our changes
>> to support device generic type in migration_vma helpers.
>> This has been tested in systems with device memory that has coherent
>> access by CPU.
>>
>> Also addresses the following feedback made in v1:
>> - Isolate in one patch kernel/resource.c modification, based
>> on Christoph's feedback.
>> - Add helpers check for generic and private type to avoid
>> duplicated long lines.
>>
>> v3:
>> - Include cover letter from v1.
>> - Rename dax_layout_is_idle_page func to dax_page_unused in patch
>> ext4/xfs: add page refcount helper.
>>
>> v4:
>> - Add support for zone device generic type in lib/test_hmm and
>> tool/testing/selftest/vm/hmm-tests.
>> - Add missing page refcount helper to fuse/dax.c. This was included in
>> one of Ralph Campbell's patches.
>>
>> v5:
>> - Cosmetic changes on patches 3, 5 and 13
>> - Bug founded at test_hmm, remove devmem->pagemap.type = MEMORY_DEVICE_PRIVATE
>> at dmirror_allocate_chunk that was forcing to configure pagemap.type to
>> MEMORY_DEVICE_PRIVATE.
>> - A bug was found while running one of the xfstest (generic/413) used to
>> validate fs_dax device type. This was first introduced by patch: "mm: remove
>> extra ZONE_DEVICE struct page refcount" whic is part of these patch series.
>> The bug was showed as WARNING message at try_grab_page function call, due to
>> a page refcounter equal to zero. Part of "mm: remove extra ZONE_DEVICE struct
>> page refcount" changes, was to initialize page refcounter to zero. Therefore,
>> a special condition was added to try_grab_page on this v5, were it checks for
>> device zone pages too. It is included in the same patch.
>>
>> This is how mm changes from these patch series have been validated:
>> - hmm-tests were run using device private and device generic types. This last,
>> just added in these patch series. efi_fake_mem was used to mimic SPM memory
>> for device generic.
>> - xfstests tool was used to validate fs-dax device type and page refcounter
>> changes. DAX configuration was used along with emulated Persisten Memory set as
>> memmap=4G!4G memmap=4G!9G. xfstests were run from ext4 and generic lists. Some
>> of them, did not run due to limitations in configuration. Ex. test not
>> supporting specific file system or DAX mode.
>> Only three tests failed, generic/356/357 and ext4/049. However, these failures
>> were consistent before and after applying these patch series.
>> xfstest configuration:
>> TEST_DEV=/dev/pmem0
>> TEST_DIR=/mnt/ram0
>> SCRATCH_DEV=/dev/pmem1
>> SCRATCH_MNT=/mnt/ram1
>> TEST_FS_MOUNT_OPTS="-o dax"
>> EXT_MOUNT_OPTIONS="-o dax"
>> MKFS_OPTIONS="-b4096"
>> xfstest passed list:
>> Ext4:
>> 001,003,005,021,022,023,025,026,030,031,032,036,037,038,042,043,044,271,306
>> Generic:
>> 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,11,12,13,14,15,16,20,21,22,23,24,25,28,29,30,31,32,33,35,37,
>> 50,52,53,58,60,61,62,63,64,67,69,70,71,75,76,78,79,80,82,84,86,87,88,91,92,94,
>> 96,97,98,99,103,105,112,113,114,117,120,124,126,129,130,131,135,141,169,184,
>> 198,207,210,211,212,213,214,215,221,223,225,228,236,237,240,244,245,246,247,
>> 248,249,255,257,258,263,277,286,294,306,307,308,309,313,315,316,318,319,337,
>> 346,360,361,371,375,377,379,380,383,384,385,386,389,391,392,393,394,400,401,
>> 403,404,406,409,410,411,412,413,417,420,422,423,424,425,426,427,428
>>
>> Patches 1-2 Rebased Ralph Campbell's ZONE_DEVICE page refcounting patches.
>>
>> Patches 4-5 are for context to show how we are looking up the SPM
>> memory and registering it with devmap.
>>
>> Patches 3,6-8 are the changes we are trying to upstream or rework to
>> make them acceptable upstream.
>>
>> Patches 9-13 add ZONE_DEVICE Generic type support into the hmm test.
>>
>> Alex Sierra (11):
>> kernel: resource: lookup_resource as exported symbol
>> drm/amdkfd: add SPM support for SVM
>> drm/amdkfd: generic type as sys mem on migration to ram
>> include/linux/mm.h: helpers to check zone device generic type
>> mm: add generic type support to migrate_vma helpers
>> mm: call pgmap->ops->page_free for DEVICE_GENERIC pages
>> lib: test_hmm add ioctl to get zone device type
>> lib: test_hmm add module param for zone device type
>> lib: add support for device generic type in test_hmm
>> tools: update hmm-test to support device generic type
>> tools: update test_hmm script to support SP config
>>
>> Ralph Campbell (2):
>> ext4/xfs: add page refcount helper
>> mm: remove extra ZONE_DEVICE struct page refcount
>>
>> arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_uvmem.c | 2 +-
>> drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_migrate.c | 22 ++-
>> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_dmem.c | 2 +-
>> fs/dax.c | 8 +-
>> fs/ext4/inode.c | 5 +-
>> fs/fuse/dax.c | 4 +-
>> fs/xfs/xfs_file.c | 4 +-
>> include/linux/dax.h | 10 +
>> include/linux/memremap.h | 7 +-
>> include/linux/mm.h | 54 +-----
>> kernel/resource.c | 1 +
>> lib/test_hmm.c | 231 +++++++++++++++--------
>> lib/test_hmm_uapi.h | 16 ++
>> mm/internal.h | 8 +
>> mm/memremap.c | 69 ++-----
>> mm/migrate.c | 25 +--
>> mm/page_alloc.c | 3 +
>> mm/swap.c | 45 +----
>> tools/testing/selftests/vm/hmm-tests.c | 142 ++++++++++++--
>> tools/testing/selftests/vm/test_hmm.sh | 20 +-
>> 20 files changed, 405 insertions(+), 273 deletions(-)
>>
>> --
>> 2.32.0
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