Re: [PATCH v8 5/8] mm: Device exclusive memory access

Jason Gunthorpe
2021-05-18T19:45:14Z

On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 02:01:36PM -0400, Peter Xu wrote:
> > > Indeed it'll be odd for a COW page since for COW page then it means after
> > > parent/child writting to the page it'll clone into two, then it's a mistery on
> > > which one will be the one that "exclusived owned" by the device..
> >
> > For COW pages it is like every other fork case.. We can't reliably
> > write-protect the device_exclusive page during fork so we must copy it
> > at fork time.
> >
> > Thus three reasonable choices:
> > - Copy to a new CPU page
> > - Migrate back to a CPU page and write protect it
> > - Copy to a new device exclusive page
>
> IMHO the ownership question would really help us to answer this one..

I'm confused about what device ownership you are talking about

It is just a page and it is tied to some specific pgmap?

If the thing providing the migration stuff goes away then all
device_exclusive pages should revert back to CPU pages and destroy the
pgmap?

Jason