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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/hmm.rst | 73 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 62 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hmm.rst b/Documentation/vm/hmm.rst index 710ce1c701bf..0a5960beccf7 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/hmm.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/hmm.rst @@ -192,15 +192,14 @@ read only, or fully unmap, etc.). The device must complete the update before the driver callback returns. When the device driver wants to populate a range of virtual addresses, it can -use either:: +use:: - long hmm_range_snapshot(struct hmm_range *range); - long hmm_range_fault(struct hmm_range *range, bool block); + long hmm_range_fault(struct hmm_range *range, unsigned int flags); -The first one (hmm_range_snapshot()) will only fetch present CPU page table +With the HMM_RANGE_SNAPSHOT flag, it will only fetch present CPU page table entries and will not trigger a page fault on missing or non-present entries. -The second one does trigger a page fault on missing or read-only entries if -write access is requested (see below). Page faults use the generic mm page +Without that flag, it does trigger a page fault on missing or read-only entries +if write access is requested (see below). Page faults use the generic mm page fault code path just like a CPU page fault. Both functions copy CPU page table entries into their pfns array argument. Each @@ -223,24 +222,24 @@ The usage pattern is:: range.flags = ...; range.values = ...; range.pfn_shift = ...; - hmm_range_register(&range); + hmm_range_register(&range, mirror); /* * Just wait for range to be valid, safe to ignore return value as we - * will use the return value of hmm_range_snapshot() below under the + * will use the return value of hmm_range_fault() below under the * mmap_sem to ascertain the validity of the range. */ hmm_range_wait_until_valid(&range, TIMEOUT_IN_MSEC); again: down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); - ret = hmm_range_snapshot(&range); + ret = hmm_range_fault(&range, HMM_RANGE_SNAPSHOT); if (ret) { up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); if (ret == -EBUSY) { /* * No need to check hmm_range_wait_until_valid() return value - * on retry we will get proper error with hmm_range_snapshot() + * on retry we will get proper error with hmm_range_fault() */ hmm_range_wait_until_valid(&range, TIMEOUT_IN_MSEC); goto again; @@ -340,58 +339,8 @@ Migration to and from device memory =================================== Because the CPU cannot access device memory, migration must use the device DMA -engine to perform copy from and to device memory. For this we need a new -migration helper:: - - int migrate_vma(const struct migrate_vma_ops *ops, - struct vm_area_struct *vma, - unsigned long mentries, - unsigned long start, - unsigned long end, - unsigned long *src, - unsigned long *dst, - void *private); - -Unlike other migration functions it works on a range of virtual address, there -are two reasons for that. First, device DMA copy has a high setup overhead cost -and thus batching multiple pages is needed as otherwise the migration overhead -makes the whole exercise pointless. The second reason is because the -migration might be for a range of addresses the device is actively accessing. - -The migrate_vma_ops struct defines two callbacks. First one (alloc_and_copy()) -controls destination memory allocation and copy operation. Second one is there -to allow the device driver to perform cleanup operations after migration:: - - struct migrate_vma_ops { - void (*alloc_and_copy)(struct vm_area_struct *vma, - const unsigned long *src, - unsigned long *dst, - unsigned long start, - unsigned long end, - void *private); - void (*finalize_and_map)(struct vm_area_struct *vma, - const unsigned long *src, - const unsigned long *dst, - unsigned long start, - unsigned long end, - void *private); - }; - -It is important to stress that these migration helpers allow for holes in the -virtual address range. Some pages in the range might not be migrated for all -the usual reasons (page is pinned, page is locked, ...). This helper does not -fail but just skips over those pages. - -The alloc_and_copy() might decide to not migrate all pages in the -range (for reasons under the callback control). For those, the callback just -has to leave the corresponding dst entry empty. - -Finally, the migration of the struct page might fail (for file backed page) for -various reasons (failure to freeze reference, or update page cache, ...). If -that happens, then the finalize_and_map() can catch any pages that were not -migrated. Note those pages were still copied to a new page and thus we wasted -bandwidth but this is considered as a rare event and a price that we are -willing to pay to keep all the code simpler. +engine to perform copy from and to device memory. For this we need to use +migrate_vma_setup(), migrate_vma_pages(), and migrate_vma_finalize() helpers. Memory cgroup (memcg) and rss accounting |