From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Olaf Hering , Hugh Dickins , Boris Ostrovsky , Juergen Gross Subject: [PATCH 4.8 79/85] xen/gntdev: Use VM_MIXEDMAP instead of VM_IO to avoid NUMA balancing Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 21:48:04 +0100 Message-Id: <20170104200706.994099360@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20170104200703.349648590@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20170104200703.349648590@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Boris Ostrovsky commit 30faaafdfa0c754c91bac60f216c9f34a2bfdf7e upstream. Commit 9c17d96500f7 ("xen/gntdev: Grant maps should not be subject to NUMA balancing") set VM_IO flag to prevent grant maps from being subjected to NUMA balancing. It was discovered recently that this flag causes get_user_pages() to always fail with -EFAULT. check_vma_flags __get_user_pages __get_user_pages_locked __get_user_pages_unlocked get_user_pages_fast iov_iter_get_pages dio_refill_pages do_direct_IO do_blockdev_direct_IO do_blockdev_direct_IO ext4_direct_IO_read generic_file_read_iter aio_run_iocb (which can happen if guest's vdisk has direct-io-safe option). To avoid this let's use VM_MIXEDMAP flag instead --- it prevents NUMA balancing just as VM_IO does and has no effect on check_vma_flags(). Reported-by: Olaf Hering Suggested-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Tested-by: Olaf Hering Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/xen/gntdev.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/xen/gntdev.c +++ b/drivers/xen/gntdev.c @@ -1007,7 +1007,7 @@ static int gntdev_mmap(struct file *flip vma->vm_ops = &gntdev_vmops; - vma->vm_flags |= VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP | VM_IO; + vma->vm_flags |= VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP | VM_MIXEDMAP; if (use_ptemod) vma->vm_flags |= VM_DONTCOPY;