Re: [PATCH v1] drm/ttm: Refcount allocated tail pages

[Christian König]

Am 15.08.22 um 12:09 schrieb Dmitry Osipenko:
> On 8/15/22 13:05, Christian König wrote:
> > Am 15.08.22 um 11:54 schrieb Dmitry Osipenko:
> > > Higher order pages allocated using alloc_pages() aren't refcounted and
> > > they
> > > need to be refcounted, otherwise it's impossible to map them by KVM. This
> > > patch sets the refcount of the tail pages and fixes the KVM memory
> > > mapping
> > > faults.
> > >
> > > Without this change guest virgl driver can't map host buffers into guest
> > > and can't provide OpenGL 4.5 profile support to the guest. The host
> > > mappings are also needed for enabling the Venus driver using host GPU
> > > drivers that are utilizing TTM.
> > >
> > > Based on a patch proposed by Trigger Huang.
> > Well I can't count how often I have repeated this: This is an absolutely
> > clear NAK!
> >
> > TTM pages are not reference counted in the first place and because of
> > this giving them to virgl is illegal.
> A? The first page is refcounted when allocated, the tail pages are not.

No they aren't. The first page is just by coincident initialized with a 
refcount of 1. This refcount is completely ignored and not used at all.

Incrementing the reference count and by this mapping the page into some 
other address space is illegal and corrupts the internal state tracking 
of TTM.

> > Please immediately stop this completely broken approach. We have
> > discussed this multiple times now.
> Could you please give me a link to these discussions?

Not of hand, please search the dri-devel list for similar patches. This 
was brought up multiple times now.

Regards,
Christian.