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SubjectRe: [PATCH 13/31] mm/hmm: retry if pte_offset_map() fails
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On 2023/5/23 10:39, Alistair Popple wrote:
>
> Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.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@google.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

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