Re: [PATCH 09/13] gup: Don't allow FOLL_LONGTERM pinning of FS DAX pages

[David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>]

On 27.06.24 02:54, Alistair Popple wrote:
> Longterm pinning of FS DAX pages should already be disallowed by
> various pXX_devmap checks. However a future change will cause these
> checks to be invalid for FS DAX pages so make
> folio_is_longterm_pinnable() return false for FS DAX pages.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
> ---
>   include/linux/memremap.h | 11 +++++++++++
>   include/linux/mm.h       |  4 ++++
>   2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/memremap.h b/include/linux/memremap.h
> index 6505713..19a448e 100644
> --- a/include/linux/memremap.h
> +++ b/include/linux/memremap.h
> @@ -193,6 +193,17 @@ static inline bool folio_is_device_coherent(const struct folio *folio)
>   	return is_device_coherent_page(&folio->page);
>   }
>   
> +static inline bool is_device_dax_page(const struct page *page)
> +{
> +	return is_zone_device_page(page) &&
> +		page_dev_pagemap(page)->type == MEMORY_DEVICE_FS_DAX;
> +}
> +
> +static inline bool folio_is_device_dax(const struct folio *folio)
> +{
> +	return is_device_dax_page(&folio->page);
> +}
> +
>   #ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE
>   void zone_device_page_init(struct page *page);
>   void *memremap_pages(struct dev_pagemap *pgmap, int nid);
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index b84368b..4d1cdea 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -2032,6 +2032,10 @@ static inline bool folio_is_longterm_pinnable(struct folio *folio)
>   	if (folio_is_device_coherent(folio))
>   		return false;
>   
> +	/* DAX must also always allow eviction. */
> +	if (folio_is_device_dax(folio))
> +		return false;
> +
>   	/* Otherwise, non-movable zone folios can be pinned. */
>   	return !folio_is_zone_movable(folio);
>   

Why is the check in check_vma_flags() insufficient? GUP-fast maybe?

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Cheers,

David / dhildenb