From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To: "lizhijian@fujitsu.com" <lizhijian@fujitsu.com>
Cc: "nvdimm@lists.linux.dev" <nvdimm@lists.linux.dev>,
Yishai Hadas <yishaih@nvidia.com>,
"linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"yangx.jy@fujitsu.com" <yangx.jy@fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: RDMA/rpma + fsdax(ext4) was broken since 36f30e486d
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2021 09:10:34 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210827121034.GG1200268@ziepe.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10c4bead-c778-8794-f916-80bf7ba3a56b@fujitsu.com>
On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 08:15:40AM +0000, lizhijian@fujitsu.com wrote:
> i looked over the change-log of hmm_vma_handle_pte(), and found that before
> 4055062 ("mm/hmm: add missing call to hmm_pte_need_fault in HMM_PFN_SPECIAL handling")
>
> hmm_vma_handle_pte() will not check pte_special(pte) if pte_devmap(pte) is true.
>
> when we reached
> "if (pte_special(pte) && !is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pte))) {"
> the pte have already presented and its pte's flag already fulfilled the request flags.
>
>
> My question is that
> Per https://01.org/blogs/dave/2020/linux-consumption-x86-page-table-bits,
> pte_devmap(pte) and pte_special(pte) could be both true in fsdax user case, right ?
How? what code creates that?
I see:
insert_pfn():
/* Ok, finally just insert the thing.. */
if (pfn_t_devmap(pfn))
entry = pte_mkdevmap(pfn_t_pte(pfn, prot));
else
entry = pte_mkspecial(pfn_t_pte(pfn, prot));
So what code path ends up setting both bits?
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-27 12:10 UTC|newest]
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2021-08-04 8:06 ` RDMA/rpma + fsdax(ext4) was broken since 36f30e486d Li, Zhijian/李 智坚
2021-08-06 1:45 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-08-06 3:20 ` Li, Zhijian/李 智坚
2021-08-27 8:15 ` lizhijian
2021-08-27 12:10 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2021-08-27 13:05 ` Li, Zhijian
2021-08-27 13:16 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-08-27 13:38 ` Li, Zhijian
2021-08-27 16:42 ` Dan Williams
2021-08-27 16:52 ` Jason Gunthorpe
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