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

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Date:   Wed, 11 Jan 2023 17:13:23 +0000
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To:     Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
        Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko@...labora.com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>, Huang Rui <ray.huang@....com>,
        Trigger Huang <Trigger.Huang@...il.com>,
        Gert Wollny <gert.wollny@...labora.com>,
        Antonio Caggiano <antonio.caggiano@...labora.com>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel@...labora.com, virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] drm/ttm: Refcount allocated tail pages

On Tue, Sep 06, 2022, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 10:01:47PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 12:05:19PM +0200, 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.
> > > 
> > > Please immediately stop this completely broken approach. We have discussed
> > > this multiple times now.
> > 
> > Yeah we need to get this stuff closed for real by tagging them all with
> > VM_IO or VM_PFNMAP asap.
> 
> For a bit more context: Anything mapping a bo should be VM_SPECIAL. And I
> think we should add the checks to the gem and dma-buf mmap functions to
> validate for that, and fix all the fallout.
> 
> Otherwise this dragon keeps resurrecting ...
> 
> VM_SPECIAL _will_ block get_user_pages, which will block everyone from
> even trying to refcount this stuff.

FWIW, IIUC that won't change the KVM story.  KVM acquires the PFN for these pages
via follow_pte(), not by gup().  Details are in a different strand of this thread[*].

If TTM pages aren't tied into mmu_notifiers, then I believe the only solution is
to not allow them to be mapped into user page tables.  If they are tied into
mmu_notifiers, then this is fully a KVM limitation that we are (slowly) resolving.

[*] https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y77sQZI0IfFVx7Jo@google.com