linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 19/20] PCI/P2PDMA: introduce pci_mmap

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Message-ID: <809be72b-efb2-752c-31a6-702c8a307ce7@amd.com>
Date:   Mon, 4 Oct 2021 08:58:35 +0200
From:   Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>
Cc:     Alistair Popple <apopple@...dia.com>,
        Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@....com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
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        Stephen Bates <sbates@...thlin.com>,
        John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>,
        Don Dutile <ddutile@...hat.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
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        Chaitanya Kulkarni <ckulkarnilinux@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 19/20] PCI/P2PDMA: introduce pci_mmap_p2pmem()

I'm not following this discussion to closely, but try to look into it 
from time to time.

Am 01.10.21 um 19:45 schrieb Jason Gunthorpe:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 11:01:49AM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
>
>> In device-dax, the refcount is only used to prevent the device, and
>> therefore the pages, from going away on device unbind. Pages cannot be
>> recycled, as you say, as they are mapped linearly within the device. The
>> address space invalidation is done only when the device is unbound.
> By address space invalidation I mean invalidation of the VMA that is
> pointing to those pages.
>
> device-dax may not have a issue with use-after-VMA-invalidation by
> it's very nature since every PFN always points to the same
> thing. fsdax and this p2p stuff are different though.
>
>> Before the invalidation, an active flag is cleared to ensure no new
>> mappings can be created while the unmap is proceeding.
>> unmap_mapping_range() should sequence itself with the TLB flush and
> AFIAK unmap_mapping_range() kicks off the TLB flush and then
> returns. It doesn't always wait for the flush to fully finish. Ie some
> cases use RCU to lock the page table against GUP fast and so the
> put_page() doesn't happen until the call_rcu completes - after a grace
> period. The unmap_mapping_range() does not wait for grace periods.

Wow, wait a second. That is quite a boomer. At least in all GEM/TTM 
based graphics drivers that could potentially cause a lot of trouble.

I've just double checked and we certainly have the assumption that when 
unmap_mapping_range() returns the pte is gone and the TLB flush 
completed in quite a number of places.

Do you have more information when and why that can happen?

Thanks,
Christian.