[RFC PATCH 1/2] mm,drm/ttm: Block fast GUP to TTM huge pages

[Williams, Dan J]

On Sun, 2021-03-21 at 19:45 +0100, Thomas Hellström (Intel) wrote:
> TTM sets up huge page-table-entries both to system- and device
> memory,
> and we don't want gup to assume there are always valid backing struct
> pages for these. For PTEs this is handled by setting the pte_special
> bit,
> but for the huge PUDs and PMDs, we have neither pmd_special nor
> pud_special. Normally, huge TTM entries are identified by looking at
> vma_is_special_huge(), but fast gup can't do that, so as an
> alternative
> define _devmap entries for which there are no backing dev_pagemap as
> special, update documentation and make huge TTM entries _devmap,
> after
> verifying that there is no backing dev_pagemap.

Please do not abuse p{m,u}d_devmap like this. I'm in the process of
removing get_devpagemap() from the gup-fast path [1]. Instead there
should be space for p{m,u}d_special in the page table entries (at least
for x86-64). So the fix is to remove that old assumption that huge
pages can never be special.

[1]: 
http://lore.kernel.org/r/161604050866.1463742.7759521510383551055.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com