linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 13/31] mm/hmm: retry if pte_offset

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Date:   Tue, 23 May 2023 14:06:26 +0800
From:   Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@...ux.dev>
To:     Alistair Popple <apopple@...dia.com>
Cc:     Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
        Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@...edance.com>,
        Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>,
        Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@...dia.com>,
        Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
        Steven Price <steven.price@....com>,
        SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>,
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        Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@...een.com>,
        Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@...wei.com>,
        Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Song Liu <song@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Hellstrom <thomas.hellstrom@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/31] mm/hmm: retry if pte_offset_map() fails



On 2023/5/23 10:39, Alistair Popple wrote:
> 
> Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@...ux.dev> writes:
> 
>> On 2023/5/22 13:05, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>>> hmm_vma_walk_pmd() is called through mm_walk, but already has a goto
>>> again loop of its own, so take part in that if pte_offset_map() fails.
>>> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
>>> ---
>>>    mm/hmm.c | 2 ++
>>>    1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>> diff --git a/mm/hmm.c b/mm/hmm.c
>>> index e23043345615..b1a9159d7c92 100644
>>> --- a/mm/hmm.c
>>> +++ b/mm/hmm.c
>>> @@ -381,6 +381,8 @@ static int hmm_vma_walk_pmd(pmd_t *pmdp,
>>>    	}
>>>      	ptep = pte_offset_map(pmdp, addr);
>>> +	if (!ptep)
>>> +		goto again;
>>>    	for (; addr < end; addr += PAGE_SIZE, ptep++, hmm_pfns++) {
>>>    		int r;
>>>    
>>
>> I haven't read the entire patch set yet, but taking a note here.
>> The hmm_vma_handle_pte() will unmap pte and then call
>> migration_entry_wait() to remap pte, so this may fail, we need to
>> handle this case like below:
> 
> I don't see a problem here. Sure, hmm_vma_handle_pte() might return
> -EBUSY but that will get returned up to hmm_range_fault() which will
> retry the whole thing again and presumably fail when looking at the PMD.

Yeah. There is no problem with this and the modification to
migration_entry_wait() can be simplified. My previous thought was that
we can finish the retry logic in hmm_vma_walk_pmd() without handing it
over to the caller. :)

> 
>> diff --git a/mm/hmm.c b/mm/hmm.c
>> index 6a151c09de5e..eb726ff0981c 100644
>> --- a/mm/hmm.c
>> +++ b/mm/hmm.c
>> @@ -276,7 +276,8 @@ static int hmm_vma_handle_pte(struct mm_walk
>> *walk, unsigned long addr,
>>                  if (is_migration_entry(entry)) {
>>                          pte_unmap(ptep);
>>                          hmm_vma_walk->last = addr;
>> -                       migration_entry_wait(walk->mm, pmdp, addr);
>> +                       if (!migration_entry_wait(walk->mm, pmdp, addr))
>> +                               return -EAGAIN;
>>                          return -EBUSY;
>>                  }
>>
>> @@ -386,6 +387,8 @@ static int hmm_vma_walk_pmd(pmd_t *pmdp,
>>
>>                  r = hmm_vma_handle_pte(walk, addr, end, pmdp, ptep,
>>                  hmm_pfns);
>>                  if (r) {
>> +                       if (r == -EAGAIN)
>> +                               goto again;
>>                          /* hmm_vma_handle_pte() did pte_unmap() */
>>                          return r;
>>                  }
>>
>> Of course, the migration_entry_wait() also needs to be modified.
> 

-- 
Thanks,
Qi