[PATCH v2 02/29] mm/migrate: Add migrate_device_prepopulated_range

Mika Penttilä mpenttil at redhat.com
Fri Oct 18 06:39:20 UTC 2024


On 10/18/24 08:59, Alistair Popple wrote:
> Matthew Brost <matthew.brost at intel.com> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 08:58:02AM +1100, Alistair Popple wrote:
>>> Matthew Brost <matthew.brost at intel.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 04:49:11PM +1100, Alistair Popple wrote:
>>>>> Matthew Brost <matthew.brost at intel.com> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 02:21:13PM +1100, Alistair Popple wrote:
>>>>>>> Matthew Brost <matthew.brost at intel.com> writes:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 12:49:55PM +1100, Alistair Popple wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Matthew Brost <matthew.brost at intel.com> writes:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 04:46:52AM +0000, Matthew Brost wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 03:04:06PM +1100, Alistair Popple wrote:
>>>>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> +{
>>>>>>>>>>>>> +	unsigned long i;
>>>>>>>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>>>>>>>> +	for (i = 0; i < npages; i++) {
>>>>>>>>>>>>> +		struct page *page = pfn_to_page(src_pfns[i]);
>>>>>>>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>>>>>>>> +		if (!get_page_unless_zero(page)) {
>>>>>>>>>>>>> +			src_pfns[i] = 0;
>>>>>>>>>>>>> +			continue;
>>>>>>>>>>>>> +		}
>>>>>>>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>>>>>>>> +		if (!trylock_page(page)) {
>>>>>>>>>>>>> +			src_pfns[i] = 0;
>>>>>>>>>>>>> +			put_page(page);
>>>>>>>>>>>>> +			continue;
>>>>>>>>>>>>> +		}
>>>>>>>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>>>>>>>> +		src_pfns[i] = migrate_pfn(src_pfns[i]) | MIGRATE_PFN_MIGRATE;
>>>>>>>>>>>> This needs to be converted to use a folio like
>>>>>>>>>>>> migrate_device_range(). But more importantly this should be split out as
>>>>>>>>>>>> a function that both migrate_device_range() and this function can call
>>>>>>>>>>>> given this bit is identical.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Missed the folio conversion and agree a helper shared between this
>>>>>>>>>>> function and migrate_device_range would be a good idea. Let add that.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Alistair,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Ok, I think now I want to go slightly different direction here to give
>>>>>>>>>> GPUSVM a bit more control over several eviction scenarios.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> What if I exported the helper discussed above, e.g.,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>  905 unsigned long migrate_device_pfn_lock(unsigned long pfn)
>>>>>>>>>>  906 {
>>>>>>>>>>  907         struct folio *folio;
>>>>>>>>>>  908
>>>>>>>>>>  909         folio = folio_get_nontail_page(pfn_to_page(pfn));
>>>>>>>>>>  910         if (!folio)
>>>>>>>>>>  911                 return 0;
>>>>>>>>>>  912
>>>>>>>>>>  913         if (!folio_trylock(folio)) {
>>>>>>>>>>  914                 folio_put(folio);
>>>>>>>>>>  915                 return 0;
>>>>>>>>>>  916         }
>>>>>>>>>>  917
>>>>>>>>>>  918         return migrate_pfn(pfn) | MIGRATE_PFN_MIGRATE;
>>>>>>>>>>  919 }
>>>>>>>>>>  920 EXPORT_SYMBOL(migrate_device_pfn_lock);
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> And then also export migrate_device_unmap.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> The usage here would be let a driver collect the device pages in virtual
>>>>>>>>>> address range via hmm_range_fault, lock device pages under notifier
>>>>>>>>>> lock ensuring device pages are valid, drop the notifier lock and call
>>>>>>>>>> migrate_device_unmap.
>>>>>>>>> I'm still working through this series but that seems a bit dubious, the
>>>>>>>>> locking here is pretty subtle and easy to get wrong so seeing some code
>>>>>>>>> would help me a lot in understanding what you're suggesting.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> For sure locking in tricky, my mistake on not working through this
>>>>>>>> before sending out the next rev but it came to mind after sending +
>>>>>>>> regarding some late feedback from Thomas about using hmm for eviction
>>>>>>>> [2]. His suggestion of using hmm_range_fault to trigger migration
>>>>>>>> doesn't work for coherent pages, while something like below does.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> [2] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/610957/?series=137870&rev=1#comment_1125461
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Here is a snippet I have locally which seems to work.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 2024 retry:
>>>>>>>> 2025         hmm_range.notifier_seq = mmu_interval_read_begin(notifier);
>>>>>>>> 2026         hmm_range.hmm_pfns = src;
>>>>>>>> 2027
>>>>>>>> 2028         while (true) {
>>>>>>>> 2029                 mmap_read_lock(mm);
>>>>>>>> 2030                 err = hmm_range_fault(&hmm_range);
>>>>>>>> 2031                 mmap_read_unlock(mm);
>>>>>>>> 2032                 if (err == -EBUSY) {
>>>>>>>> 2033                         if (time_after(jiffies, timeout))
>>>>>>>> 2034                                 break;
>>>>>>>> 2035
>>>>>>>> 2036                         hmm_range.notifier_seq = mmu_interval_read_begin(notifier);
>>>>>>>> 2037                         continue;
>>>>>>>> 2038                 }
>>>>>>>> 2039                 break;
>>>>>>>> 2040         }
>>>>>>>> 2041         if (err)
>>>>>>>> 2042                 goto err_put;
>>>>>>>> 2043
>>>>>>>> 2044         drm_gpusvm_notifier_lock(gpusvm);
>>>>>>>> 2045         if (mmu_interval_read_retry(notifier, hmm_range.notifier_seq)) {
>>>>>>>> 2046                 drm_gpusvm_notifier_unlock(gpusvm);
>>>>>>>> 2047                 memset(src, 0, sizeof(*src) * npages);
>>>>>>>> 2048                 goto retry;
>>>>>>>> 2049         }
>>>>>>>> 2050         for (i = 0; i < npages; ++i) {
>>>>>>>> 2051                 struct page *page = hmm_pfn_to_page(src[i]);
>>>>>>>> 2052
>>>>>>>> 2053                 if (page && (is_device_private_page(page) ||
>>>>>>>> 2054                     is_device_coherent_page(page)) && page->zone_device_data)
>>>>>>>> 2055                         src[i] = src[i] & ~HMM_PFN_FLAGS;
>>>>>>>> 2056                 else
>>>>>>>> 2057                         src[i] = 0;
>>>>>>>> 2058                 if (src[i])
>>>>>>>> 2059                         src[i] = migrate_device_pfn_lock(src[i]);
>>>>>>>> 2060         }
>>>>>>>> 2061         drm_gpusvm_notifier_unlock(gpusvm);
>>>>>>> Practically for eviction isn't this much the same as calling
>>>>>>> migrate_vma_setup()? And also for eviction as Sima mentioned you
>>>>>>> probably shouldn't be looking at mm/vma structs.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> hmm_range_fault is just collecting the pages, internally I suppose it
>>>>>> does look at a VMA (struct vm_area_struct) but I think the point is
>>>>>> drivers should not be looking at VMA here.
>>>>> migrate_vma_setup() is designed to be called by drivers and needs a vma,
>>>>> so in general I don't see a problem with drivers looking up vma's. The
>>>>> problem arises specifically for eviction and whether or not that happens
>>>>> in the driver or hmm_range_fault() is pretty irrelevant IMHO for the
>>>>> issues there (see below).
>>>>>
>>>> Ok, if you think it ok for drivers to lookup the VMA then purposed
>>>> exporting of migrate_device_pfn_lock & migrate_device_unmap is not
>>>> needed, rather just the original function exported in the this patch.
>>>>
>>>> More below too.
>>>>
>>>>>>>> 2063         migrate_device_unmap(src, npages, NULL);
>>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>> 2101         migrate_device_pages(src, dst, npages);
>>>>>>>> 2102         migrate_device_finalize(src, dst, npages);
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Sima has strongly suggested avoiding a CPUVMA
>>>>>>>>>> lookup during eviction cases and this would let me fixup
>>>>>>>>>> drm_gpusvm_range_evict in [1] to avoid this.
>>>>>>>>> That sounds reasonable but for context do you have a link to the
>>>>>>>>> comments/discussion on this? I couldn't readily find it, but I may have
>>>>>>>>> just missed it.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> See in [4], search for '2. eviction' comment from sima.
>>>>>>> Thanks for pointing that out. For reference here's Sima's comment:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 2. eviction
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Requirements much like migrate_to_ram, because otherwise we break the
>>>>>>>> migration gurantee:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> - Only looking at physical memory datastructures and locks, no looking at
>>>>>>>>   mm/vma structs or relying on those being locked. We rely entirely on
>>>>>>>>   reverse maps from try_to_migrate to find all the mappings on both cpu
>>>>>>>>   and gpu side (cpu only zone device swap or migration pte entries ofc).
>>>>>>> I also very much agree with this. That's basically why I added
>>>>>>> migrate_device_range(), so that we can forcibly evict pages when the
>>>>>>> driver needs them freed (eg. driver unload, low memory, etc.). In
>>>>>>> general it is impossible to guarantee eviction og all pages using just
>>>>>>> hmm_range_fault().
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> In this code path we don't have device pages available, hence the
>>>>>> purposed collection via hmm_range_fault.
>>>>> Why don't you have the pfns requiring eviction available? I need to read
>>>>> this series in more depth, but generally hmm_range_fault() can't
>>>>> gurantee you will find every device page.
>>>>>
>>>> There are two cases for eviction in my series:
>>>>
>>>> 1. TTM decides it needs to move memory. This calls
>>>> drm_gpusvm_evict_to_ram. In this case the device pfns are available
>>>> directly from drm_gpusvm_devmem so the migrate_device_* calls be used
>>>> here albiet with the new function added in this patch as device pfns may
>>>> be non-contiguous.
>>> That makes sense and is generally what I think of when I'm thinking of
>>> eviction. The new function makes sense too - migrate_device_range() was
>>> primarily introduced to allow a driver to evict all device-private pages
>>> from a GPU so didn't consider non-contiguous cases, etc.
>>>
>>>> 2. An inconsistent state for VA range occurs (mixed system and device pages,
>>>> partial unmap of a range, etc...). Here we want to evict the range ram
>>>> to make the state consistent. No device pages are available due to an
>>>> intentional disconnect between a virtual range and physical
>>>> drm_gpusvm_devmem, thus the device pages have to be looked up. This the
>>>> function drm_gpusvm_range_evict. Based on what you tell me, it likely is
>>>> fine the way originally coded in v2 (vma lookup + migrate_vma_*) vs
>>>> using hmm_range_fault like I have suggested here.
>>> Thanks for the explanation. I think vma lookup + migrate_vma_setup() is
>>> fine for this usage and is exactly what you want - it was designed to
>>> either select all the system memory pages or device-private pages within
>>> a VA range and migrate them.
>>>
>>> FWIW I have toyed with the idea of a combined
>>> hmm_range_fault()/migrate_vma_setup() front-end to the rest of the
>>> migrate_vma_*() process but haven't come up with something nice as
>>> yet. I don't think mixing the two in an open-coded fashion is a good
>>> idea though, I'd rather we come up with a new API that addresses the
>>> short-comings of migrate_vma_setup().
>>>
>> I think that would good. Here we actually need to lookup multiple VMAs
>> and have a sequence of migrate_vma_* calls as it possible for VMAs to
>> have changed after the driver range was created. It might be nice to
>> hide the VMA lookup from the drivers with an API saying collect and
>> migrate all pages of a type in a VA range much like hmm_range_fault. If
>> the range spans multiple VMAs that would be hidden from the caller.
> Ok. I wasn't really considering multiple VMAs. UVM and Nouveau don't
> really have a requirement to migrate across multiple VMAs but if that's
> neccessary I think an API that hides that specifically for working with
> migrate_vma_*() might make sense.

Yes that's what I'm currently doing. You call it in a loop, the
fault+migrate prepare part chunks the calls to vma boundaries and you do
the migrations for each vma and loop until the whole range done.


>
>> Matt
>>
>>>> Note #2 may be removed or unnecessary at some point if we decide to add
>>>> support for ininconsistent state in GPU SVM and Xe. Keeping it simple for
>>>> now though. See 'Ranges with mixed system and device pages' in [5].
> As someone not very familiar with some of the DRM layers can I ask why
> having virtual address ranges with a mix of system and device pages is
> hard to support? It seems to me that in practice it might be quite
> difficult to keep a VMA range as exclusively all in system memory or all
> in device memory.
>
>>>> [5] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/619819/?series=137870&rev=2
>>>>
>>>>>>>> [3] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/610957/?series=137870&rev=1#comment_1110726
>>>>>>>> [4] https://lore.kernel.org/all/BYAPR11MB3159A304925168D8B6B4671292692@BYAPR11MB3159.namprd11.prod.outlook.com/T/#m89cd6a37778ba5271d5381ebeb03e1f963856a78
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> It would also make the function exported in this patch unnecessary too
>>>>>>>>>> as non-contiguous pfns can be setup on driver side via
>>>>>>>>>> migrate_device_pfn_lock and then migrate_device_unmap can be called.
>>>>>>>>>> This also another eviction usage in GPUSVM, see drm_gpusvm_evict_to_ram
>>>>>>>>>> in [1].
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Do you see an issue exporting migrate_device_pfn_lock,
>>>>>>>>>> migrate_device_unmap?
>>>>>>>>> If there is a good justification for it I can't see a problem with
>>>>>>>>> exporting it. That said I don't really understand why you would
>>>>>>>>> want/need to split those steps up but I'll wait to see the code.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It is so the device pages returned from hmm_range_fault, which are only
>>>>>>>> guaranteed to be valid under the notifier lock + a seqno check, to be
>>>>>>>> locked and ref taken for migration. migrate_device_unmap() can trigger a
>>>>>>>> MMU invalidation which takes the notifier lock thus calling the function
>>>>>>>> which combines migrate_device_pfn_lock + migrate_device_unmap deadlocks.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I think this flow makes sense and agree in general this likely better
>>>>>>>> than looking at a CPUVMA.
>>>>>>> I'm still a bit confused about what is better with this flow if you are
>>>>>>> still calling hmm_range_fault(). How is it better than just calling
>>>>>>> migrate_vma_setup()? Obviously it will fault the pages in, but it seems
>>>>>> The code in rev2 calls migrate_vma_setup but the requires a struct
>>>>>> vm_area_struct argument whereas hmm_range_fault does not.
>>>>> I'm not sure that's a good enough justfication because the problem isn't
>>>>> whether you're looking up vma's in driver code or mm code. The problem
>>>>> is you are looking up vma's at all and all that goes with that (mainly
>>>>> taking mmap lock, etc.)
>>>>>
>>>>> And for eviction hmm_range_fault() won't even find all the pages because
>>>>> their virtual address may have changed - consider what happens in cases
>>>>> of mremap(), fork(), etc. So eviction really needs physical pages
>>>>> (pfn's), not virtual addresses.
>>>>>
>>>> See above, #1 yes we use a physical pages. For #2 it is about making the
>>>> state consistent within a virtual address range.
>>> Yep, makes sense now. For migration of physical pages you want
>>> migrate_device_*, virtual address ranges want migrate_vma_*
>>>
>>>  - Alistair
>>>
>>>> Matt
>>>>  
>>>>>>> we're talking about eviction here so I don't understand why that would
>>>>>>> be relevant. And hmm_range_fault() still requires the VMA, although I
>>>>>>> need to look at the patches more closely, probably CPUVMA is a DRM
>>>>>> 'hmm_range_fault() still requires the VMA' internal yes, but again not
>>>>>> as argument. This is about avoiding a driver side lookup of the VMA.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> CPUVMA == struct vm_area_struct in this email.
>>>>> Thanks for the clarification.
>>>>>
>>>>>  - Alistair
>>>>>
>>>>>> Matt
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> specific concept?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  - Alistair
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Matt
>>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>>>  - Alistair
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Matt
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> [1] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/619809/?series=137870&rev=2
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Matt
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> +	}
>>>>>>>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>>>>>>>> +	migrate_device_unmap(src_pfns, npages, NULL);
>>>>>>>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>>>>>>>> +	return 0;
>>>>>>>>>>>>> +}
>>>>>>>>>>>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(migrate_device_prepopulated_range);
>>>>>>>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>>>>>>>>  /*
>>>>>>>>>>>>>   * Migrate a device coherent folio back to normal memory. The caller should have
>>>>>>>>>>>>>   * a reference on folio which will be copied to the new folio if migration is



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