[PATCH v1] drm/ttm: Refcount allocated tail pages

Dmitry Osipenko dmitry.osipenko at collabora.com
Mon Aug 15 09:54:23 UTC 2022


Higher order pages allocated using alloc_pages() aren't refcounted and they
need to be refcounted, otherwise it's impossible to map them by KVM. This
patch sets the refcount of the tail pages and fixes the KVM memory mapping
faults.

Without this change guest virgl driver can't map host buffers into guest
and can't provide OpenGL 4.5 profile support to the guest. The host
mappings are also needed for enabling the Venus driver using host GPU
drivers that are utilizing TTM.

Based on a patch proposed by Trigger Huang.

Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Cc: Trigger Huang <Trigger.Huang at gmail.com>
Link: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2021/11/26/venus-on-qemu-enabling-new-virtual-vulkan-driver/#qcom1343
Tested-by: Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko at collabora.com> # AMDGPU (Qemu and crosvm)
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko at collabora.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_pool.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_pool.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_pool.c
index 21b61631f73a..11e92bb149c9 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_pool.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_pool.c
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ static struct page *ttm_pool_alloc_page(struct ttm_pool *pool, gfp_t gfp_flags,
 	unsigned long attr = DMA_ATTR_FORCE_CONTIGUOUS;
 	struct ttm_pool_dma *dma;
 	struct page *p;
+	unsigned int i;
 	void *vaddr;
 
 	/* Don't set the __GFP_COMP flag for higher order allocations.
@@ -93,8 +94,10 @@ static struct page *ttm_pool_alloc_page(struct ttm_pool *pool, gfp_t gfp_flags,
 
 	if (!pool->use_dma_alloc) {
 		p = alloc_pages(gfp_flags, order);
-		if (p)
+		if (p) {
 			p->private = order;
+			goto ref_tail_pages;
+		}
 		return p;
 	}
 
@@ -120,6 +123,23 @@ static struct page *ttm_pool_alloc_page(struct ttm_pool *pool, gfp_t gfp_flags,
 
 	dma->vaddr = (unsigned long)vaddr | order;
 	p->private = (unsigned long)dma;
+
+ref_tail_pages:
+	/*
+	 * KVM requires mapped tail pages to be refcounted because put_page()
+	 * is invoked on them in the end of the page fault handling, and thus,
+	 * tail pages need to be protected from the premature releasing.
+	 * In fact, KVM page fault handler refuses to map tail pages to guest
+	 * if they aren't refcounted because hva_to_pfn_remapped() checks the
+	 * refcount specifically for this case.
+	 *
+	 * In particular, unreferenced tail pages result in a KVM "Bad address"
+	 * failure for VMMs that use VirtIO-GPU when guest's Mesa VirGL driver
+	 * accesses mapped host TTM buffer that contains tail pages.
+	 */
+	for (i = 1; i < 1 << order; i++)
+		page_ref_inc(p + i);
+
 	return p;
 
 error_free:
@@ -133,6 +153,7 @@ static void ttm_pool_free_page(struct ttm_pool *pool, enum ttm_caching caching,
 {
 	unsigned long attr = DMA_ATTR_FORCE_CONTIGUOUS;
 	struct ttm_pool_dma *dma;
+	unsigned int i;
 	void *vaddr;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86
@@ -142,6 +163,8 @@ static void ttm_pool_free_page(struct ttm_pool *pool, enum ttm_caching caching,
 	if (caching != ttm_cached && !PageHighMem(p))
 		set_pages_wb(p, 1 << order);
 #endif
+	for (i = 1; i < 1 << order; i++)
+		page_ref_dec(p + i);
 
 	if (!pool || !pool->use_dma_alloc) {
 		__free_pages(p, order);
-- 
2.37.2



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