Re: [PATCH v2] mm/gup.c: Simplify and fix check_and_migrate_movable_pages() return codes

[Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>]

David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> writes:

> On 04.08.22 02:12, Alistair Popple wrote:
>>
>> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>>
>>> On Tue,  2 Aug 2022 10:30:12 +1000 Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> When pinning pages with FOLL_LONGTERM check_and_migrate_movable_pages()
>>>> is called to migrate pages out of zones which should not contain any
>>>> longterm pinned pages.
>>>>
>>>> When migration succeeds all pages will have been unpinned so pinning
>>>> needs to be retried. This is indicated by returning zero. When all pages
>>>> are in the correct zone the number of pinned pages is returned.
>>>>
>>>> However migration can also fail, in which case pages are unpinned and
>>>> -ENOMEM is returned. However if the failure was due to not being unable
>>>> to isolate a page zero is returned. This leads to indefinite looping in
>>>> __gup_longterm_locked().
>>>>
>>>> Fix this by simplifying the return codes such that zero indicates all
>>>> pages were successfully pinned in the correct zone while errors indicate
>>>> either pages were migrated and pinning should be retried or that
>>>> migration has failed and therefore the pinning operation should fail.
>>>>
>>>> This fixes the indefinite looping on page isolation failure by failing
>>>> the pin operation instead of retrying indefinitely.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Are we able to identify a Fixes: for this?  Presumably something in the
>>> series "Add MEMORY_DEVICE_COHERENT for coherent device memory mapping"?
>>
>> It seems the infinite loop was desired behaviour so I will re-spin this
>> as a pure clean-up.
>>
>
> How can the infinite loop trigger when we allow longterm-pinning the
> shared zeropage? (note: disallowing that for now was a bug)

Right, I don't know of any other triggers so based on the discussion
Pasha pointed me at I think the infinite loop is probably fine unless
there are other bugs.

Apologies I should have copied you on the new version which is just a
clean-up now -
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20220804032241.859891-1-apopple@nvidia.com/