Re: [PATCH 0/6] nouveau/hmm: add support for mapping large pages

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 12:20:03PM -0700, Ralph Campbell wrote:
> hmm_range_fault() returns an array of page frame numbers and flags for
> how the pages are mapped in the requested process' page tables. The PFN
> can be used to get the struct page with hmm_pfn_to_page() and the page size
> order can be determined with compound_order(page) but if the page is larger
> than order 0 (PAGE_SIZE), there is no indication that the page is mapped
> using a larger page size. To be fully general, hmm_range_fault() would need
> to return the mapping size to handle cases like a 1GB compound page being
> mapped with 2MB PMD entries. However, the most common case is the mapping
> size the same as the underlying compound page size.
> This series adds a new output flag to indicate this so that callers know it
> is safe to use a large device page table mapping if one is available.
> Nouveau and the HMM tests are updated to use the new flag.

This explanation doesn't make any sense.  It doesn't matter how somebody
else has it mapped; if it's a PMD-sized page, you can map it with a
2MB mapping.