Re: [PATCH v5 01/13] mm: add zone device coherent type memory support

David Hildenbrand
2022-06-21T16:16:24Z

On 21.06.22 18:08, Sierra Guiza, Alejandro (Alex) wrote:
>
> On 6/21/2022 7:25 AM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> On 21.06.22 13:55, Alistair Popple wrote:
>>> David Hildenbrand<david@redhat.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> On 21.06.22 13:25, Felix Kuehling wrote:
>>>>> Am 6/17/22 um 23:19 schrieb David Hildenbrand:
>>>>>> On 17.06.22 21:27, Sierra Guiza, Alejandro (Alex) wrote:
>>>>>>> On 6/17/2022 12:33 PM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 17.06.22 19:20, Sierra Guiza, Alejandro (Alex) wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 6/17/2022 4:40 AM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 31.05.22 22:00, Alex Sierra wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> Device memory that is cache coherent from device and CPU point of view.
>>>>>>>>>>> This is used on platforms that have an advanced system bus (like CAPI
>>>>>>>>>>> or CXL). Any page of a process can be migrated to such memory. However,
>>>>>>>>>>> no one should be allowed to pin such memory so that it can always be
>>>>>>>>>>> evicted.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Alex Sierra<alex.sierra@amd.com>
>>>>>>>>>>> Acked-by: Felix Kuehling<Felix.Kuehling@amd.com>
>>>>>>>>>>> Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple<apopple@nvidia.com>
>>>>>>>>>>> [hch: rebased ontop of the refcount changes,
>>>>>>>>>>> removed is_dev_private_or_coherent_page]
>>>>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig<hch@lst.de>
>>>>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>>>>> include/linux/memremap.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>>>>>>> mm/memcontrol.c | 7 ++++---
>>>>>>>>>>> mm/memory-failure.c | 8 ++++++--
>>>>>>>>>>> mm/memremap.c | 10 ++++++++++
>>>>>>>>>>> mm/migrate_device.c | 16 +++++++---------
>>>>>>>>>>> mm/rmap.c | 5 +++--
>>>>>>>>>>> 6 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> diff --git a/include/linux/memremap.h b/include/linux/memremap.h
>>>>>>>>>>> index 8af304f6b504..9f752ebed613 100644
>>>>>>>>>>> --- a/include/linux/memremap.h
>>>>>>>>>>> +++ b/include/linux/memremap.h
>>>>>>>>>>> @@ -41,6 +41,13 @@ struct vmem_altmap {
>>>>>>>>>>> * A more complete discussion of unaddressable memory may be found in
>>>>>>>>>>> * include/linux/hmm.h and Documentation/vm/hmm.rst.
>>>>>>>>>>> *
>>>>>>>>>>> + * MEMORY_DEVICE_COHERENT:
>>>>>>>>>>> + * Device memory that is cache coherent from device and CPU point of view. This
>>>>>>>>>>> + * is used on platforms that have an advanced system bus (like CAPI or CXL). A
>>>>>>>>>>> + * driver can hotplug the device memory using ZONE_DEVICE and with that memory
>>>>>>>>>>> + * type. Any page of a process can be migrated to such memory. However no one
>>>>>>>>>> Any page might not be right, I'm pretty sure. ... just thinking about special pages
>>>>>>>>>> like vdso, shared zeropage, ... pinned pages ...
>>>>>>>> Well, you cannot migrate long term pages, that's what I meant :)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> + * should be allowed to pin such memory so that it can always be evicted.
>>>>>>>>>>> + *
>>>>>>>>>>> * MEMORY_DEVICE_FS_DAX:
>>>>>>>>>>> * Host memory that has similar access semantics as System RAM i.e. DMA
>>>>>>>>>>> * coherent and supports page pinning. In support of coordinating page
>>>>>>>>>>> @@ -61,6 +68,7 @@ struct vmem_altmap {
>>>>>>>>>>> enum memory_type {
>>>>>>>>>>> /* 0 is reserved to catch uninitialized type fields */
>>>>>>>>>>> MEMORY_DEVICE_PRIVATE = 1,
>>>>>>>>>>> + MEMORY_DEVICE_COHERENT,
>>>>>>>>>>> MEMORY_DEVICE_FS_DAX,
>>>>>>>>>>> MEMORY_DEVICE_GENERIC,
>>>>>>>>>>> MEMORY_DEVICE_PCI_P2PDMA,
>>>>>>>>>>> @@ -143,6 +151,17 @@ static inline bool folio_is_device_private(const struct folio *folio)
>>>>>>>>>> In general, this LGTM, and it should be correct with PageAnonExclusive I think.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> However, where exactly is pinning forbidden?
>>>>>>>>> Long-term pinning is forbidden since it would interfere with the device
>>>>>>>>> memory manager owning the
>>>>>>>>> device-coherent pages (e.g. evictions in TTM). However, normal pinning
>>>>>>>>> is allowed on this device type.
>>>>>>>> I don't see updates to folio_is_pinnable() in this patch.
>>>>>>> Device coherent type pages should return true here, as they are pinnable
>>>>>>> pages.
>>>>>> That function is only called for long-term pinnings in try_grab_folio().
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So wouldn't try_grab_folio() simply pin these pages? What am I missing?
>>>>>>> As far as I understand this return NULL for long term pin pages.
>>>>>>> Otherwise they get refcount incremented.
>>>>>> I don't follow.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You're saying
>>>>>>
>>>>>> a) folio_is_pinnable() returns true for device coherent pages
>>>>>>
>>>>>> and that
>>>>>>
>>>>>> b) device coherent pages don't get long-term pinned
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yet, the code says
>>>>>>
>>>>>> struct folio *try_grab_folio(struct page *page, int refs, unsigned int flags)
>>>>>> {
>>>>>> if (flags & FOLL_GET)
>>>>>> return try_get_folio(page, refs);
>>>>>> else if (flags & FOLL_PIN) {
>>>>>> struct folio *folio;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /*
>>>>>> * Can't do FOLL_LONGTERM + FOLL_PIN gup fast path if not in a
>>>>>> * right zone, so fail and let the caller fall back to the slow
>>>>>> * path.
>>>>>> */
>>>>>> if (unlikely((flags & FOLL_LONGTERM) &&
>>>>>> !is_pinnable_page(page)))
>>>>>> return NULL;
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> return folio;
>>>>>> }
>>>>>> }
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What prevents these pages from getting long-term pinned as stated in this patch?
>>>>> Long-term pinning is handled by __gup_longterm_locked, which migrates
>>>>> pages returned by __get_user_pages_locked that cannot be long-term
>>>>> pinned. try_grab_folio is OK to grab the pages. Anything that can't be
>>>>> long-term pinned will be migrated afterwards, and
>>>>> __get_user_pages_locked will be retried. The migration of
>>>>> DEVICE_COHERENT pages was implemented by Alistair in patch 5/13
>>>>> ("mm/gup: migrate device coherent pages when pinning instead of failing").
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> __gup_longterm_locked()->check_and_migrate_movable_pages()
>>>>
>>>> Which checks folio_is_pinnable() and doesn't do anything if set.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry to be dense here, but I don't see how what's stated in this patch
>>>> works without adjusting folio_is_pinnable().
>>> Ugh, I think you might be right about try_grab_folio().
>>>
>>> We didn't update folio_is_pinnable() to include device coherent pages
>>> because device coherent pages are pinnable. It is really just
>>> FOLL_LONGTERM that we want to prevent here.
>>>
>>> For normal PUP that is done by my change in
>>> check_and_migrate_movable_pages() which migrates pages being pinned with
>>> FOLL_LONGTERM. But I think I incorrectly assumed we would take the
>>> pte_devmap() path in gup_pte_range(), which we don't for coherent pages.
>>> So I think the check in try_grab_folio() needs to be:
>> I think I said it already (and I might be wrong without reading the
>> code), but folio_is_pinnable() is *only* called for long-term pinnings.
>>
>> It should actually be called folio_is_longterm_pinnable().
>>
>> That's where that check should go, no?
>
> David, I think you're right. We didn't catch this since the LONGTERM gup
> test we added to hmm-test only calls to pin_user_pages. Apparently
> try_grab_folio is called only from fast callers (ex.
> pin_user_pages_fast/get_user_pages_fast). I have added a conditional
> similar to what Alistair has proposed to return null on LONGTERM &&
> (coherent_pages || folio_is_pinnable) at try_grab_folio. Also a new gup
> test was added with LONGTERM set that calls pin_user_pages_fast.
> Returning null under this condition it does causes the migration from
> dev to system memory.
>

Why can't coherent memory simply put its checks into
folio_is_pinnable()? I don't get it why we have to do things differently
here.

> Actually, Im having different problems with a call to PageAnonExclusive
> from try_to_migrate_one during page fault from a HMM test that first
> migrate pages to device private and forks to mark as COW these pages.
> Apparently is catching the first BUG VM_BUG_ON_PGFLAGS(!PageAnon(page),
> page)

With or without this series? A backtrace would be great.

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb