[PATCH v8 8/8] drm/gpusvm: Use hmm_range_fault_unlocked_timeout() for range faults

From: Stanislav Kinsburskii

Date: Fri Jul 10 2026 - 17:35:33 EST


Several GPU SVM paths take mmap_read_lock() only to call hmm_range_fault(),
then retry -EBUSY until HMM_RANGE_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT expires. Those paths use
MMU interval notifiers whose mm matches the mm that was locked for the HMM
fault.

Use hmm_range_fault_unlocked_timeout() for those faults and pass the
remaining retry budget to HMM. The helper owns mmap_lock acquisition and
refreshes range->notifier_seq internally for each retry, while GPU SVM
keeps its existing driver-lock validation with mmu_interval_read_retry()
after a successful fault.

Leave drm_gpusvm_check_pages() on hmm_range_fault() because that path is
called with the mmap lock already held by its caller.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsburskii <skinsburskii@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpusvm.c | 52 ++++++------------------------------------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpusvm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpusvm.c
index 958cb605aedd..6b7a6eaebcd9 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpusvm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpusvm.c
@@ -788,22 +788,8 @@ enum drm_gpusvm_scan_result drm_gpusvm_scan_mm(struct drm_gpusvm_range *range,
hmm_range.hmm_pfns = pfns;

retry:
- hmm_range.notifier_seq = mmu_interval_read_begin(notifier);
- mmap_read_lock(range->gpusvm->mm);
-
- while (true) {
- err = hmm_range_fault(&hmm_range);
- if (err == -EBUSY) {
- if (time_after(jiffies, timeout))
- break;
-
- hmm_range.notifier_seq =
- mmu_interval_read_begin(notifier);
- continue;
- }
- break;
- }
- mmap_read_unlock(range->gpusvm->mm);
+ err = hmm_range_fault_unlocked_timeout(&hmm_range,
+ max(timeout - jiffies, 1L));
if (err)
goto err_free;

@@ -1439,21 +1425,8 @@ int drm_gpusvm_get_pages(struct drm_gpusvm *gpusvm,
}

hmm_range.hmm_pfns = pfns;
- while (true) {
- mmap_read_lock(mm);
- err = hmm_range_fault(&hmm_range);
- mmap_read_unlock(mm);
-
- if (err == -EBUSY) {
- if (time_after(jiffies, timeout))
- break;
-
- hmm_range.notifier_seq =
- mmu_interval_read_begin(notifier);
- continue;
- }
- break;
- }
+ err = hmm_range_fault_unlocked_timeout(&hmm_range,
+ max_t(long, timeout - jiffies, 1));
mmput(mm);
if (err)
goto err_free;
@@ -1736,24 +1709,13 @@ int drm_gpusvm_range_evict(struct drm_gpusvm *gpusvm,
return -ENOMEM;

hmm_range.hmm_pfns = pfns;
- while (!time_after(jiffies, timeout)) {
- hmm_range.notifier_seq = mmu_interval_read_begin(notifier);
- if (time_after(jiffies, timeout)) {
- err = -ETIME;
- break;
- }
-
- mmap_read_lock(mm);
- err = hmm_range_fault(&hmm_range);
- mmap_read_unlock(mm);
- if (err != -EBUSY)
- break;
- }
+ err = hmm_range_fault_unlocked_timeout(&hmm_range,
+ max_t(long, timeout - jiffies, 1));

kvfree(pfns);
mmput(mm);

- return err;
+ return err == -EBUSY ? -ETIME : err;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(drm_gpusvm_range_evict);