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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] iommu/amd: use handle_mm_fault directly v2


On 11/13/2014 12:10 AM, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> This could be useful for debug in the future if we want to track
> major/minor faults more closely, and also avoids the put_page trick we
> used with gup.
>
> In order to do this, we also track the task struct in the PASID state
> structure. This lets us update the appropriate task stats after the
> fault has been handled, and may aid with debug in the future as well.
>
> v2: drop task accounting; GPU activity may have been submitted by a
> different thread than the one binding the PASID (Joerg)
>
> Tested-by: Oded Gabbay<oded.gabbay@amd.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes<jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

Hi Jesse,

I know I tested your patch a few months ago, but we have a new feature (still
internally) in the driver, which has some conflicts with this patch.

Our feature is basically doing "exception handling" by registering a callback
function with the iommu driver in inv_ppr_cb.

Now, with the old code (we used 3.17.2 until a few days ago), this callback
function was called in, at least, three use-cases (which we are testing):

(1) Writing to a "bad" system memory address, which is *not* in the process's
memory address space.

(2) Writing to a read-only page, which is inside the process's memory address space

(3) Reading from a page without permissions, which is inside the process's
memory address space

With the new code (3.19-rc5), this callback is only called in the first
use-case, while (2) and (3) are handled in handle_mm_fault(), which is now
called from do_fault. The return value of handle_mm_fault() is 0, so
handle_fault_error() is not called and amdkfd doesn't get notification, hence
our test fails.

This is a problem for us as we want to propagate these exceptions to the user
space HSA runtime, so it could handle them.

I have 2 questions:

1. Why don't we call inv_ppr_cb() in any case ?
2. How come handle_mm_fault() returns 0 in cases (2) and (3) ? Or in other
words, what is considered to be a success in handle_mm_fault() and is it visible
to the user-space process ?

Thanks,

Oded


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