linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nouveau/hmm: fix migrate zero page to GPU

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Wed, 20 May 2020 14:05:08 -0700
From:   Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...lanox.com>
CC:     <nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org>, <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Jerome Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        "John Hubbard" <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nouveau/hmm: fix migrate zero page to GPU


On 5/20/20 12:20 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 11:36:52AM -0700, Ralph Campbell wrote:
>> When calling OpenCL clEnqueueSVMMigrateMem() on a region of memory that
>> is backed by pte_none() or zero pages, migrate_vma_setup() will fill the
>> source PFN array with an entry indicating the source page is zero.
>> Use this to optimize migration to device private memory by allocating
>> GPU memory and zero filling it instead of failing to migrate the page.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>
>>
>> This patch applies cleanly to Jason's Gunthorpe's hmm tree plus two
>> patches I posted earlier. The first is queued in Ben Skegg's nouveau
>> tree and the second is still pending review/not queued.
>> [1] ("nouveau/hmm: map pages after migration")
>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200304001339.8248-5-rcampbell@nvidia.com/
>> [2] ("nouveau/hmm: fix nouveau_dmem_chunk allocations")
>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200421231107.30958-1-rcampbell@nvidia.com/
> 
> It would be best if it goes through Ben's tree if it doesn't have
> conflicts with the hunks I have in the hmm tree.. Is it the case?
> 
> Jason

I think there might be some merge conflicts even though it is semantically
independent of the other changes. I guess since we are at 5.7-rc6 and not
far from the merge window, I can rebase after 5.8-rc1 and resend.
I posted this mostly to get some review and as a "heads up" of the issue.