From: "Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
"Thomas Hellström (VMware)" <thomas_os@shipmail.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
dri-devel@vmware.com, pv-drivers@vmware.com,
linux-graphics-maintainer@vmware.com,
"Thomas Hellstrom" <thellstrom@vmware.com>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Michal Hocko" <mhocko@suse.com>,
"Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>,
"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
"Ralph Campbell" <rcampbell@nvidia.com>,
"Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] drm/ttm: Fix vm page protection handling
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 10:58:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c1f35529-6e3c-2ba5-bd86-e7cc04cbc1b1@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191203095502.hw3r33ioax2x4kvt@box>
Am 03.12.19 um 10:55 schrieb Kirill A. Shutemov:
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 08:54:46AM +0100, Thomas Hellström (VMware) wrote:
>> From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
>>
>> We were using an ugly hack to set the page protection correctly.
>> Fix that and instead use vmf_insert_mixed_prot() and / or
>> vmf_insert_pfn_prot().
>> Also get the default page protection from
>> struct vm_area_struct::vm_page_prot rather than using vm_get_page_prot().
>> This way we catch modifications done by the vm system for drivers that
>> want write-notification.
> Hm. Why doesn't your VMA have the right prot flags in the first place? Why
> do you need to override them? More context, please.
TTM allows for graphics buffer to move between system and IO memory. So
the prot flags can change on the fly for a VMA.
Regards,
Christian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-03 9:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-03 7:54 [PATCH 0/2] mm, drm/ttm: Fix pte insertion with customized protection Thomas Hellström (VMware)
2019-12-03 7:54 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: Add and export vmf_insert_mixed_prot() Thomas Hellström (VMware)
2019-12-03 7:54 ` [PATCH 2/2] drm/ttm: Fix vm page protection handling Thomas Hellström (VMware)
2019-12-03 9:55 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2019-12-03 9:58 ` Christian König [this message]
2019-12-03 10:19 ` Thomas Hellström (VMware)
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-11-26 20:27 [PATCH 1/2] mm: Add and export vmf_insert_mixed_prot() Thomas Hellström (VMware)
2019-11-26 20:27 ` [PATCH 2/2] drm/ttm: Fix vm page protection handling Thomas Hellström (VMware)
2019-11-27 8:43 ` Christian König
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