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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] iommu/amd: use handle_mm_fault directly v2
On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 15:16:44 +0200
Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@amd.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 11/13/2014 12:10 AM, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > This could be useful for debug in the future if we want to track
> > major/minor faults more closely, and also avoids the put_page trick we
> > used with gup.
> >
> > In order to do this, we also track the task struct in the PASID state
> > structure. This lets us update the appropriate task stats after the
> > fault has been handled, and may aid with debug in the future as well.
> >
> > v2: drop task accounting; GPU activity may have been submitted by a
> > different thread than the one binding the PASID (Joerg)
> >
> > Tested-by: Oded Gabbay<oded.gabbay@amd.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes<jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
>
> Hi Jesse,
>
> I know I tested your patch a few months ago, but we have a new feature (still
> internally) in the driver, which has some conflicts with this patch.
>
> Our feature is basically doing "exception handling" by registering a callback
> function with the iommu driver in inv_ppr_cb.
>
> Now, with the old code (we used 3.17.2 until a few days ago), this callback
> function was called in, at least, three use-cases (which we are testing):
>
> (1) Writing to a "bad" system memory address, which is *not* in the process's
> memory address space.
>
> (2) Writing to a read-only page, which is inside the process's memory address space
>
> (3) Reading from a page without permissions, which is inside the process's
> memory address space
>
> With the new code (3.19-rc5), this callback is only called in the first
> use-case, while (2) and (3) are handled in handle_mm_fault(), which is now
> called from do_fault. The return value of handle_mm_fault() is 0, so
> handle_fault_error() is not called and amdkfd doesn't get notification, hence
> our test fails.
>
> This is a problem for us as we want to propagate these exceptions to the user
> space HSA runtime, so it could handle them.
>
> I have 2 questions:
>
> 1. Why don't we call inv_ppr_cb() in any case ?

We do if we fail to allocate the vma or it's in the wrong location, but
we could extend the do_fault() handling to do it in more cases.

> 2. How come handle_mm_fault() returns 0 in cases (2) and (3) ? Or in other
> words, what is considered to be a success in handle_mm_fault() and is it visible
> to the user-space process ?

handle_mm_fault() is somewhat of a low level function. We can catch
more cases in our own do_fault() code if we need to. The x86
__do_page_fault is probably a good reference. I mainly tried to match
existing behavior when I added the handle_mm_fault(), but may have
missed stuff. As I said, we can extend our do_fault() to handle all
the cases we want prior to calling handle_mm_fault().

Thanks,
--
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center


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