On 6/11/24 11:27 AM, Martin Oliveira wrote:
> This check existed originally due to concerns that P2PDMA needed to copy
> fsdax until pgmap refcounts were fixed (see [1]).
>
> The P2PDMA infrastructure will only call unmap_mapping_range() when the
> underlying device is unbound, and immediately after unmapping it waits
> for the reference of all ZONE_DEVICE pages to be released before
> continuing. This does not allow for a page to be reused and no user
> access fault is therefore possible. It does not have the same problem as
> fsdax.
This sounds great. I'm adding Dan Williams to Cc, in hopes of getting an
ack from him on this point.
>
> The one minor concern with FOLL_LONGTERM pins is they will block device
> unbind until userspace releases them all.
That seems like a completely reasonable consequence of what you are
doing here, IMHO.
>
> Co-developed-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
> Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
> Signed-off-by: Martin Oliveira <martin.oliveira@eideticom.com>
>
> [1]: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Yy4Ot5MoOhsgYLTQ@ziepe.ca
> ---
> mm/gup.c | 5 -----
> 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
> index 00d0a77112f4f..28060e41788d0 100644
> --- a/mm/gup.c
> +++ b/mm/gup.c
> @@ -2614,11 +2614,6 @@ static bool is_valid_gup_args(struct page **pages, int *locked,
> if (WARN_ON_ONCE((gup_flags & (FOLL_GET | FOLL_PIN)) && !pages))
> return false;
>
> - /* We want to allow the pgmap to be hot-unplugged at all times */
> - if (WARN_ON_ONCE((gup_flags & FOLL_LONGTERM) &&
> - (gup_flags & FOLL_PCI_P2PDMA)))
> - return false;
> -
I am not immediately seeing anything wrong with this... :)
> *gup_flags_p = gup_flags;
> return true;
> }
thanks,
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John Hubbard
NVIDIA