[RFC] drm/vgem: Don't use get_page in fault handler.

[Thomas Hellström (Intel)]

On 7/7/20 1:07 PM, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Christian König (2020-07-07 11:58:26)
>> Am 07.07.20 um 10:59 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
>>> On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 9:27 AM Lepton Wu <ytht.net at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> For pages which are allocated in ttm with transparent huge pages,
>>>> tail pages have zero as reference count. The current vgem code use
>>>> get_page on them and it will trigger BUG when release_pages get called
>>>> on those pages later.
>>>>
>>>> Here I attach the minimal code to trigger this bug on a qemu VM which
>>>> enables virtio gpu (card1) and vgem (card0). BTW, since the upstream
>>>> virtio gpu has changed to use drm gem and moved away from ttm. So we
>>>> have to use an old kernel like 5.4 to reproduce it. But I guess
>>>> same thing could happen for a real GPU if the real GPU use similar code
>>>> path to allocate pages from ttm. I am not sure about two things: first, do we
>>>> need to fix this? will a real GPU hit this code path? Second, suppose this
>>>> need to be fixed, should this be fixed in ttm side or vgem side?  If we remove
>>>> "huge_flags &= ~__GFP_COMP" from ttm_get_pages, then get_page in vgem works
>>>> fine. But it's there for fix another bug:
>>>> https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbugs.freedesktop.org%2Fshow_bug.cgi%3Fid%3D103138&data=02%7C01%7Cchristian.koenig%40amd.com%7Cfc0831be8fd848abfd8908d82254266d%7C3dd8961fe4884e608e11a82d994e183d%7C0%7C0%7C637297092113216357&sdata=S%2BtLJyB8mqyyE%2BSIjbfHM6FGFuFjrfI50tahpaoJ3wU%3D&reserved=0
>>>> It could also be "fixed" with this patch. But I am really not sure if this is
>>>> the way to go.
>>> For imported dma-buf objects, vgem should not handle this itself, but
>>> forward to the exporter through the dma_buf_mmap stuff. We have
>>> helpers for this all now, probably just not wired up correctly. Trying
>>> to ensure that all combinations of mmap code across all drivers work
>>> the same doesn't work.
>> Yes, Daniel is right what vgem does here is fundamentally broken in many
>> ways.
>>
>> First of all nobody should ever call get_page() on the pages TTM has
>> allocated. Those pages come out of a block box and should not be touched
>> by anybody.
> It doesn't. It's only used on the pages vgem allocates (from shmemfs). So
> I'm really confused as to how ttm gets involved here.
> -Chris

Sounds like vgem is allowing mmap of imported dma-bufs?

/Thomas

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