Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] mm,drm/ttm: Block fast GUP to TTM huge pages

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 06:51:26PM +0100, Thomas Hellström (Intel) wrote:
> 
> On 3/24/21 9:25 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > On 3/24/21 1:22 PM, Thomas Hellström (Intel) wrote:
> > > > We also have not been careful at *all* about how _PAGE_BIT_SOFTW* are
> > > > used.  It's quite possible we can encode another use even in the
> > > > existing bits.
> > > > 
> > > > Personally, I'd just try:
> > > > 
> > > > #define _PAGE_BIT_SOFTW5        57      /* available for programmer */
> > > > 
> > > OK, I'll follow your advise here. FWIW I grepped for SW1 and it seems
> > > used in a selftest, but only for PTEs AFAICT.
> > > 
> > > Oh, and we don't care about 32-bit much anymore?
> > On x86, we have 64-bit PTEs when running 32-bit kernels if PAE is
> > enabled.  IOW, we can handle the majority of 32-bit CPUs out there.
> > 
> > But, yeah, we don't care about 32-bit. :)
> 
> Hmm,
> 
> Actually it makes some sense to use SW1, to make it end up in the same dword
> as the PSE bit, as from what I can tell, reading of a 64-bit pmd_t on 32-bit
> PAE is not atomic, so in theory a huge pmd could be modified while reading
> the pmd_t making the dwords inconsistent.... How does that work with fast
> gup anyway?

It loops to get an atomic 64 bit value if the arch can't provide an
atomic 64 bit load

Jason