Re: [PATCH v1] drm/ttm: Refcount allocated tail pages

From: "Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>
To: Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com>,
	David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>, Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
	Trigger Huang <Trigger.Huang@gmail.com>,
	Gert Wollny <gert.wollny@collabora.com>,
	Antonio Caggiano <antonio.caggiano@collabora.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>,
	kernel@collabora.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] drm/ttm: Refcount allocated tail pages
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 12:14:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4fcc4739-2da9-1b89-209c-876129604d7d@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8caf3008-dcf3-985a-631e-e019b277c6f0@amd.com>

Am 15.08.22 um 12:11 schrieb Christian König:
> Am 15.08.22 um 12:09 schrieb Dmitry Osipenko:
>> On 8/15/22 13:05, Christian König wrote:
>>> Am 15.08.22 um 11:54 schrieb Dmitry Osipenko:
>>>> Higher order pages allocated using alloc_pages() aren't refcounted and
>>>> they
>>>> need to be refcounted, otherwise it's impossible to map them by 
>>>> KVM. This
>>>> patch sets the refcount of the tail pages and fixes the KVM memory
>>>> mapping
>>>> faults.
>>>>
>>>> Without this change guest virgl driver can't map host buffers into 
>>>> guest
>>>> and can't provide OpenGL 4.5 profile support to the guest. The host
>>>> mappings are also needed for enabling the Venus driver using host GPU
>>>> drivers that are utilizing TTM.
>>>>
>>>> Based on a patch proposed by Trigger Huang.
>>> Well I can't count how often I have repeated this: This is an 
>>> absolutely
>>> clear NAK!
>>>
>>> TTM pages are not reference counted in the first place and because of
>>> this giving them to virgl is illegal.
>> A? The first page is refcounted when allocated, the tail pages are not.
>
> No they aren't. The first page is just by coincident initialized with 
> a refcount of 1. This refcount is completely ignored and not used at all.
>
> Incrementing the reference count and by this mapping the page into 
> some other address space is illegal and corrupts the internal state 
> tracking of TTM.

See this comment in the source code as well:

         /* Don't set the __GFP_COMP flag for higher order allocations.
          * Mapping pages directly into an userspace process and calling
          * put_page() on a TTM allocated page is illegal.
          */

I have absolutely no idea how somebody had the idea he could do this.

Regards,
Christian.

>
>>> Please immediately stop this completely broken approach. We have
>>> discussed this multiple times now.
>> Could you please give me a link to these discussions?
>
> Not of hand, please search the dri-devel list for similar patches. 
> This was brought up multiple times now.
>
> Regards,
> Christian.