linux-kernel - Re: [External] Re: [RFC PATCH 00/24] mm/hugetlb: Free some vmemmap pages of hugetlb page

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Date:   Tue, 15 Sep 2020 16:42:13 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
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Subject: Re: [External] Re: [RFC PATCH 00/24] mm/hugetlb: Free some vmemmap
 pages of hugetlb page

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 11:28:01PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 10:32 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 08:59:23PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> > > This patch series will free some vmemmap pages(struct page structures)
> > > associated with each hugetlbpage when preallocated to save memory.
> >
> > It would be lovely to be able to do this.  Unfortunately, it's completely
> > impossible right now.  Consider, for example, get_user_pages() called
> > on the fifth page of a hugetlb page.
> 
> Can you elaborate on the problem? Thanks so much.

OK, let's say you want to do a 2kB I/O to offset 0x5000 of a 2MB page
on a 4kB base page system.  Today, that results in a bio_vec containing
{head+5, 0, 0x800}.  Then we call page_to_phys() on that (head+5) struct
page to get the physical address of the I/O, and we turn it into a struct
scatterlist, which similarly has a reference to the page (head+5).

If you're returning page (head+1) from get_user_pages(), all the
calculations will be wrong and you'll do DMA to the wrong address.

What needs to happen is a conversion to get_user_bvecs().  That way we
can return a bvec which is {head, 0x5000, 0x800} and the calculations
will work.  So that's going to involve touching a lot of device drivers.
Christoph has a start on it here:
http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/misc.git/shortlog/refs/heads/gup-bvec

Overlapping with that is a desire to change the biovec so that it
only stores {phys_addr, length} rather than {page, offset, length}.
We're also going to have to rework the scatterlist so that it doesn't
carry a struct page either.