Re: [PATCH 04/15] mm: remove the pgmap field from struct hmm_vma_walk

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 01:47:12PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 1:41 PM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 04:33:06PM -0400, Jerome Glisse wrote:
> >
> > > So nor HMM nor driver should dereference the struct page (i do not
> > > think any iommu driver would either),
> >
> > Er, they do technically deref the struct page:
> >
> > nouveau_dmem_convert_pfn(struct nouveau_drm *drm,
> >                          struct hmm_range *range)
> >                 struct page *page;
> >                 page = hmm_pfn_to_page(range, range->pfns[i]);
> >                 if (!nouveau_dmem_page(drm, page)) {
> >
> >
> > nouveau_dmem_page(struct nouveau_drm *drm, struct page *page)
> > {
> >         return is_device_private_page(page) && drm->dmem == page_to_dmem(page)
> >
> >
> > Which does touch 'page->pgmap'
> >
> > Is this OK without having a get_dev_pagemap() ?
> >
> > Noting that the collision-retry scheme doesn't protect anything here
> > as we can have a concurrent invalidation while doing the above deref.
> 
> As long take_driver_page_table_lock() in Jerome's flow can replace
> percpu_ref_tryget_live() on the pagemap reference. It seems
> nouveau_dmem_convert_pfn() happens after:
>
>                         mutex_lock(&svmm->mutex);
>                         if (!nouveau_range_done(&range)) {
> 
> ...so I would expect that to be functionally equivalent to validating
> the reference count.

Yes, OK, that makes sense, I was mostly surprised by the statement the
driver doesn't touch the struct page.. 

I suppose "doesn't touch the struct page out of the driver lock" is
the case.

However, this means we cannot do any processing of ZONE_DEVICE pages
outside the driver lock, so eg, doing any DMA map that might rely on
MEMORY_DEVICE_PCI_P2PDMA has to be done in the driver lock, which is
a bit unfortunate.

Jason