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

Oded Gabbay
2022-06-20T12:24:28Z

On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 11:50 AM Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> wrote:
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>
> Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com> writes:
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> > On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 3:33 AM Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 8:20 PM Sierra Guiza, Alejandro (Alex)
> >> > <alex.sierra@amd.com> 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 ...
> >> >>
> >> >> Hi David,
> >> >>
> >> >> Yes, I think you're right. This type does not cover all special pages.
> >> >> I need to correct that on the cover letter.
> >> >> Pinned pages are allowed as long as they're not long term pinned.
> >> >>
> >> >> Regards,
> >> >> Alex Sierra
> >> >
> >> > What if I want to hotplug this device's coherent memory, but I do
> >> > *not* want the OS
> >> > to migrate any page to it ?
> >> > I want to fully-control what resides on this memory, as I can consider
> >> > this memory
> >> > "expensive". i.e. I don't have a lot of it, I want to use it for
> >> > specific purposes and
> >> > I don't want the OS to start using it when there is some memory pressure in
> >> > the system.
> >>
> >> This is exactly what MEMORY_DEVICE_COHERENT is for. Device coherent
> >> pages are only allocated by a device driver and exposed to user-space by
> >> a driver migrating pages to them with migrate_vma. The OS can't just
> >> start using them due to memory pressure for example.
> >>
> >> - Alistair
> > Thanks for the explanation.
> >
> > I guess the commit message confused me a bit, especially these two sentences:
> >
> > "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."
> >
> > I read them as if the OS is free to choose which pages are migrated to
> > this memory,
> > and anything is eligible for migration to that memory (and that's why
> > we also don't
> > allow it to pin memory there).
> >
> > If we are not allowed to pin anything there, can the device driver
> > decide to disable
> > any option for oversubscription of this memory area ?
>
> I'm not sure I follow your thinking on how oversubscription would work
> here, however all allocations are controlled by the driver. So if a
> device's coherent memory is full a driver would be unable to migrate
> pages to that device until pages are freed by the OS due to being
> unmapped or the driver evicts pages by migrating them back to normal CPU
> memory.
>
> Pinning of pages is allowed, and could prevent such migrations. However
> this patch series prevents device coherent pages from being pinned
> longterm (ie. with FOLL_LONGTERM), so it should always be able to evict
> pages eventually.
>
> > Let's assume the user uses this memory area for doing p2p with other
> > CXL devices.
> > In that case, I wouldn't want the driver/OS to migrate pages in and
> > out of that memory...
>
> The OS will not migrate pages in or out (although it may free them if no
> longer required), but a driver might choose to. So at the moment it's
> really up to the driver to implement what you want in this regards.

I see.
In other words, we don't want to allow long-term pinning but
the driver can decide it doesn't want to evict pages out
of that memory, until they are freed.

Thanks,
Oded
>
> > So either I should let the user pin those pages, or prevent him from
> > doing (accidently or not)
> > oversubscription in this memory area.
>
> As noted above pages can be pinned, but not long-term.
>
> - Alistair
>
> > wdyt ?
> >
> >>
> >> > Oded
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> >
> >> >> >> + * 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.
> >> >>
> >> >> Regards,
> >> >> Alex Sierra
> >> >>
> >> >> >