Re: [PATCH hmm 2/5] mm/hmm: make hmm_range_fault return 0 or -1

From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH hmm 2/5] mm/hmm: make hmm_range_fault return 0 or -1
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 16:38:49 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200429193849.GA3824@ziepe.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200422055229.GB22366@lst.de>

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 07:52:29AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 09:21:43PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
> > 
> > hmm_vma_walk->last is supposed to be updated after every write to the
> > pfns, so that it can be returned by hmm_range_fault(). However, this is
> > not done consistently. Fortunately nothing checks the return code of
> > hmm_range_fault() for anything other than error.
> > 
> > More importantly last must be set before returning -EBUSY as it is used to
> > prevent reading an output pfn as an input flags when the loop restarts.
> > 
> > For clarity and simplicity make hmm_range_fault() return 0 or -ERRNO. Only
> > set last when returning -EBUSY.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
> >  Documentation/vm/hmm.rst                |  2 +-
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ttm.c |  4 ++--
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_svm.c   |  6 +++---
> >  include/linux/hmm.h                     |  2 +-
> >  mm/hmm.c                                | 25 +++++++++----------------
> >  5 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hmm.rst b/Documentation/vm/hmm.rst
> > index 4e3e9362afeb10..9924f2caa0184c 100644
> > +++ b/Documentation/vm/hmm.rst
> > @@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ 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::
> >  
> > -  long hmm_range_fault(struct hmm_range *range);
> > +  int hmm_range_fault(struct hmm_range *range);
> >  
> >  It will 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
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ttm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ttm.c
> > index 6309ff72bd7876..efc1329a019127 100644
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_ttm.c
> > @@ -852,12 +852,12 @@ int amdgpu_ttm_tt_get_user_pages(struct amdgpu_bo *bo, struct page **pages)
> >  	down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> >  	r = hmm_range_fault(range);
> >  	up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> > -	if (unlikely(r <= 0)) {
> > +	if (unlikely(r)) {
> >  		/*
> >  		 * FIXME: This timeout should encompass the retry from
> >  		 * mmu_interval_read_retry() as well.
> >  		 */
> > -		if ((r == 0 || r == -EBUSY) && !time_after(jiffies, timeout))
> > +		if ((r == -EBUSY) && !time_after(jiffies, timeout))
> 
> Please also kill the superflous inner braces here.
> 
> > + * Return: 0 or -ERRNO with one of the following status codes:
> 
> Maybe say something like:
> 
>     * Returns 0 on success or one of the following error codes:
> 
> Otherwise this looks good:

Got it, thanks

Jason