From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
To: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>,
John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
"linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] mm/hmm: allow snapshot of the special zero page
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:27:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191029172729.GQ22766@mellanox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191023195515.13168-3-rcampbell@nvidia.com>
On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 12:55:14PM -0700, Ralph Campbell wrote:
> If a device driver like nouveau tries to use hmm_range_fault() to access
> the special shared zero page in system memory, hmm_range_fault() will
> return -EFAULT and kill the process.
> Allow hmm_range_fault() to return success (0) when the CPU pagetable
> entry points to the special shared zero page.
> page_to_pfn() and pfn_to_page() are defined on the zero page so just
> handle it like any other page.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com>
> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
> ---
> mm/hmm.c | 10 ++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Applied to hmm.git
Thanks,
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-29 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-23 19:55 [PATCH v3 0/3] HMM tests and minor fixes Ralph Campbell
2019-10-23 19:55 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] mm/hmm: make full use of walk_page_range() Ralph Campbell
2019-10-29 17:40 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-10-23 19:55 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] mm/hmm: allow snapshot of the special zero page Ralph Campbell
2019-10-23 20:27 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-10-24 9:27 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-10-29 17:27 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2019-10-23 19:55 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] mm/hmm/test: add self tests for HMM Ralph Campbell
2019-10-23 20:28 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-10-23 21:55 ` Ralph Campbell
2019-10-29 17:58 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-10-29 21:16 ` Ralph Campbell
2019-10-29 23:12 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-10-31 0:14 ` Ralph Campbell
2019-10-31 12:42 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-10-31 17:28 ` Ralph Campbell
2019-10-31 17:34 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-10-31 17:48 ` Ralph Campbell
2019-10-30 18:34 ` Qian Cai
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