[PATCH] drm/amdkfd: Handle lack of READ permissions in SVM mapping

Kent Russell kent.russell at amd.com
Thu Jul 24 13:59:54 UTC 2025


HMM assumes that pages have READ permissions by default. Inside
svm_range_validate_and_map, we add READ permissions then add WRITE
permissions if the VMA isn't read-only. This will conflict with regions
that only have PROT_WRITE or have PROT_NONE. When that happens,
svm_range_restore_work will continue to retry, silently, giving the
impression of a hang if pr_debug isn't enabled to show the retries..

If pages don't have READ permissions, simply unmap them and continue. If
they weren't mapped in the first place, this would be a no-op. Since x86
doesn't support write-only, and PROT_NONE doesn't allow reads or writes
anyways, this will allow the svm range validation to continue without
getting stuck in a loop forever on mappings we can't use with HMM.

Signed-off-by: Kent Russell <kent.russell at amd.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_svm.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_svm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_svm.c
index e23b5a0f31f2..597b8ac92848 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_svm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_svm.c
@@ -1713,6 +1713,24 @@ static int svm_range_validate_and_map(struct mm_struct *mm,
 
 			next = min(vma->vm_end, end);
 			npages = (next - addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+			/* HMM requires at least READ permissions. If provided with PROT_NONE,
+			 * unmap the memory. If it's not already mapped, this is a no-op
+			 * If PROT_WRITE is provided without READ, warn first then unmap
+			 */
+			if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_READ)) {
+				unsigned long e, s;
+
+				if (vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE)
+					pr_debug("VM_WRITE without VM_READ is not supported");
+				s = max(start, prange->start);
+				e = min(end, prange->last);
+				if (e >= s)
+					svm_range_unmap_from_gpus(prange, s, e,
+						       KFD_SVM_UNMAP_TRIGGER_UNMAP_FROM_CPU);
+				addr = next;
+				continue;
+			}
+
 			WRITE_ONCE(p->svms.faulting_task, current);
 			r = amdgpu_hmm_range_get_pages(&prange->notifier, addr, npages,
 						       readonly, owner, NULL,
-- 
2.43.0



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