Re: [HMM 12/15] mm/migrate: new memory migration helper for use with device memory v4

[Evgeny Baskakov]

On 7/13/17 1:16 PM, Jerome Glisse wrote:

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Hi Jerome,

I have hit another kind of hang. Briefly, if a not yet allocated page 
faults on CPU during migration to device memory, any subsequent 
migration will fail for such page. Such a situation can trigger if a CPU 
page fault happens just immediately after migrate_vma() starts unmapping 
pages to migrate.

Please find attached a reproducer based on the sample driver. In the 
hmm_test() function, an HMM_DMIRROR_MIGRATE request is triggered from a 
separate thread for not yet allocated pages (coming from malloc). In the 
same time, a HMM_DMIRROR_READ request is made for the same pages. This 
results in a sporadic app-side hang, because random number of pages 
never migrate to device memory.

Note that if the pages are touched (initialized with data) prior to 
that, everything works as expected: all HMM_DMIRROR_READ and 
HMM_DMIRROR_MIGRATE requests eventually succeed. See comments in the 
hmm_test() function.

Thanks!

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Evgeny Baskakov
NVIDIA

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