[PATCH v2 2/3] mm/gup.c: Migrate device coherent pages when pinning instead of failing
Alistair Popple
apopple at nvidia.com
Thu Feb 10 23:41:05 UTC 2022
On Thursday, 10 February 2022 10:47:35 PM AEDT David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 10.02.22 12:39, Alistair Popple wrote:
> > On Thursday, 10 February 2022 9:53:38 PM AEDT David Hildenbrand wrote:
> >> On 07.02.22 05:26, Alistair Popple wrote:
> >>> Currently any attempts to pin a device coherent page will fail. This is
> >>> because device coherent pages need to be managed by a device driver, and
> >>> pinning them would prevent a driver from migrating them off the device.
> >>>
> >>> However this is no reason to fail pinning of these pages. These are
> >>> coherent and accessible from the CPU so can be migrated just like
> >>> pinning ZONE_MOVABLE pages. So instead of failing all attempts to pin
> >>> them first try migrating them out of ZONE_DEVICE.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple at nvidia.com>
> >>> Acked-by: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling at amd.com>
> >>> ---
> >>>
> >>> Changes for v2:
> >>>
> >>> - Added Felix's Acked-by
> >>> - Fixed missing check for dpage == NULL
> >>>
> >>> mm/gup.c | 105 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> >>> 1 file changed, 95 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
> >>> index 56d9577..5e826db 100644
> >>> --- a/mm/gup.c
> >>> +++ b/mm/gup.c
> >>> @@ -1861,6 +1861,60 @@ struct page *get_dump_page(unsigned long addr)
> >>>
> >>> #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
> >>> /*
> >>> + * Migrates a device coherent page back to normal memory. Caller should have a
> >>> + * reference on page which will be copied to the new page if migration is
> >>> + * successful or dropped on failure.
> >>> + */
> >>> +static struct page *migrate_device_page(struct page *page,
> >>> + unsigned int gup_flags)
> >>> +{
> >>> + struct page *dpage;
> >>> + struct migrate_vma args;
> >>> + unsigned long src_pfn, dst_pfn = 0;
> >>> +
> >>> + lock_page(page);
> >>> + src_pfn = migrate_pfn(page_to_pfn(page)) | MIGRATE_PFN_MIGRATE;
> >>> + args.src = &src_pfn;
> >>> + args.dst = &dst_pfn;
> >>> + args.cpages = 1;
> >>> + args.npages = 1;
> >>> + args.vma = NULL;
> >>> + migrate_vma_setup(&args);
> >>> + if (!(src_pfn & MIGRATE_PFN_MIGRATE))
> >>> + return NULL;
> >>> +
> >>> + dpage = alloc_pages(GFP_USER | __GFP_NOWARN, 0);
> >>> +
> >>> + /*
> >>> + * get/pin the new page now so we don't have to retry gup after
> >>> + * migrating. We already have a reference so this should never fail.
> >>> + */
> >>> + if (dpage && WARN_ON_ONCE(!try_grab_page(dpage, gup_flags))) {
> >>> + __free_pages(dpage, 0);
> >>> + dpage = NULL;
> >>> + }
> >>> +
> >>> + if (dpage) {
> >>> + lock_page(dpage);
> >>> + dst_pfn = migrate_pfn(page_to_pfn(dpage));
> >>> + }
> >>> +
> >>> + migrate_vma_pages(&args);
> >>> + if (src_pfn & MIGRATE_PFN_MIGRATE)
> >>> + copy_highpage(dpage, page);
> >>> + migrate_vma_finalize(&args);
> >>> + if (dpage && !(src_pfn & MIGRATE_PFN_MIGRATE)) {
> >>> + if (gup_flags & FOLL_PIN)
> >>> + unpin_user_page(dpage);
> >>> + else
> >>> + put_page(dpage);
> >>> + dpage = NULL;
> >>> + }
> >>> +
> >>> + return dpage;
> >>> +}
> >>> +
> >>> +/*
> >>> * Check whether all pages are pinnable, if so return number of pages. If some
> >>> * pages are not pinnable, migrate them, and unpin all pages. Return zero if
> >>> * pages were migrated, or if some pages were not successfully isolated.
> >>> @@ -1888,15 +1942,40 @@ static long check_and_migrate_movable_pages(unsigned long nr_pages,
> >>> continue;
> >>> prev_head = head;
> >>> /*
> >>> - * If we get a movable page, since we are going to be pinning
> >>> - * these entries, try to move them out if possible.
> >>> + * Device coherent pages are managed by a driver and should not
> >>> + * be pinned indefinitely as it prevents the driver moving the
> >>> + * page. So when trying to pin with FOLL_LONGTERM instead try
> >>> + * migrating page out of device memory.
> >>> */
> >>> if (is_dev_private_or_coherent_page(head)) {
> >>> + /*
> >>> + * device private pages will get faulted in during gup
> >>> + * so it shouldn't be possible to see one here.
> >>> + */
> >>> WARN_ON_ONCE(is_device_private_page(head));
> >>> - ret = -EFAULT;
> >>> - goto unpin_pages;
> >>> + WARN_ON_ONCE(PageCompound(head));
> >>> +
> >>> + /*
> >>> + * migration will fail if the page is pinned, so convert
> >>> + * the pin on the source page to a normal reference.
> >>> + */
> >>> + if (gup_flags & FOLL_PIN) {
> >>> + get_page(head);
> >>> + unpin_user_page(head);
> >>> + }
> >>> +
> >>> + pages[i] = migrate_device_page(head, gup_flags);
> >>
> >> For ordinary migrate_pages(), we'll unpin all pages and return 0 so the
> >> caller will retry pinning by walking the page tables again.
> >>
> >> Why can't we apply the same mechanism here? This "let's avoid another
> >> walk" looks unnecessary complicated to me, but I might be wrong.
> >
> > There's no reason we couldn't. I figured we have the page in the right spot
> > anyway so it was easy to do, and looking at this rebased on top of Christoph's
> > ZONE_DEVICE refcount simplification I'm not sure it would be any simpler
> > anyway.
> >
> > It would remove the call to try_grab_page(), but we'd still have to return an
> > error on migration failures whilst also ensuring we putback any non-device
> > pages that may have been isolated. I might have overlooked something though,
> > so certainly happy for suggestions.
>
> Staring at the code, I was wondering if we could either
>
> * build a second list of device coherent pages to migrate and call a
> migrate_device_pages() bulk function
> * simply use movable_page_list() and teach migrate_pages() how to handle
> them.
I did consider that approach. The problem is zone device pages are not LRU
pages. In particular page->lru is not available to add the page to a list, and
as an external API and internally migrate_pages() relies heavily on moving
pages between lists.
> I'd really appreciate as little special casing as possible for the ever
> growing list of new DEVICE types all over the place. E.g., just staring
> at fork even before the new device coherent made my head spin.
That's fair. We could pull the checks for device pages out into a self
contained function (eg. check_and_migrate_device_pages()) called before
check_and_migrate_movable_pages(). The down side of that is we'd always have an
extra loop over all the pages just to scan for device pages, but perhaps that's
not a concern?
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