Re: [PATCH 2/4] mm/hmm: allow snapshot of the special zero page
From: Ralph Campbell
Date: Thu Sep 12 2019 - 13:08:34 EST
On 9/12/19 1:26 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 03:28:27PM -0700, Ralph Campbell wrote:
Allow hmm_range_fault() to return success (0) when the CPU pagetable
entry points to the special shared zero page.
The caller can then handle the zero page by possibly clearing device
private memory instead of DMAing a zero page.
Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "JÃrÃme Glisse" <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
---
mm/hmm.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/hmm.c b/mm/hmm.c
index 06041d4399ff..7217912bef13 100644
--- a/mm/hmm.c
+++ b/mm/hmm.c
@@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ static int hmm_vma_handle_pte(struct mm_walk *walk, unsigned long addr,
return -EBUSY;
} else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL) && pte_special(pte)) {
*pfn = range->values[HMM_PFN_SPECIAL];
- return -EFAULT;
+ return is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pte)) ? 0 : -EFAULT;
Any chance to just use a normal if here:
if (!is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pte)))
return -EFAULT;
return 0;
Sure, no problem.