Re: [PATCH 19/22] mm: always return EBUSY for invalid ranges in hmm_range_{fault,snapshot}

[Kuehling, Felix]

On 2019-07-01 2:20 a.m., Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> We should not have two different error codes for the same condition.  In
> addition this really complicates the code due to the special handling of
> EAGAIN that drops the mmap_sem due to the FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY logic
> in the core vm.

I think the comment above hmm_range_snapshot needs an update. Also 
Documentation/vm/hmm.rst shows some example code using 
hmm_range_snapshot that retries on -EAGAIN. That would need to be 
updated to use -EBUSY or remove the retry logic altogether.

Other than that, this patch is Reviewed-by: Felix Kuehling 
<Felix.Kuehling@xxxxxxx>

Philip, this means we should remove our retry logic again in 
amdgpu_ttm_tt_get_user_pages. According to the comment above 
hmm_range_fault, it can only return -EAGAIN if the block parameter is 
false. I think this statement is now actually true. We set block=true, 
so we can't get -EAGAIN. On -EBUSY we can let 
amdgpu_amdkfd_restore_userptr_worker schedule the retry (which it does 
already anyway).

Regards,
 Â Felix


>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> ---
>   mm/hmm.c | 8 +++-----
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/hmm.c b/mm/hmm.c
> index c85ed7d4e2ce..d125df698e2b 100644
> --- a/mm/hmm.c
> +++ b/mm/hmm.c
> @@ -974,7 +974,7 @@ long hmm_range_snapshot(struct hmm_range *range)
>   	do {
>   		/* If range is no longer valid force retry. */
>   		if (!range->valid)
> -			return -EAGAIN;
> +			return -EBUSY;
>   
>   		vma = find_vma(hmm->mm, start);
>   		if (vma == NULL || (vma->vm_flags & device_vma))
> @@ -1069,10 +1069,8 @@ long hmm_range_fault(struct hmm_range *range, bool block)
>   
>   	do {
>   		/* If range is no longer valid force retry. */
> -		if (!range->valid) {
> -			up_read(&hmm->mm->mmap_sem);
> -			return -EAGAIN;
> -		}
> +		if (!range->valid)
> +			return -EBUSY;
>   
>   		vma = find_vma(hmm->mm, start);
>   		if (vma == NULL || (vma->vm_flags & device_vma))