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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2019-08-14 09:59:19 +0200
committerJason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>2019-08-20 09:35:02 -0300
commita7d1f22bb74f32cf3cd93f52776007e161f1a738 (patch)
treed3cbbf0483499da1f858f3b2facda271670e8d69 /Documentation/vm
parentf4fb3b9c1971ec210b30845a9f62dc823c5242d0 (diff)
mm: turn migrate_vma upside down
There isn't any good reason to pass callbacks to migrate_vma. Instead we can just export the three steps done by this function to drivers and let them sequence the operation without callbacks. This removes a lot of boilerplate code as-is, and will allow the drivers to drastically improve code flow and error handling further on. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190814075928.23766-2-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com> Tested-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hmm.rst b/Documentation/vm/hmm.rst
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@@ -339,58 +339,8 @@ Migration to and from device memory
===================================
Because the CPU cannot access device memory, migration must use the device DMA
-engine to perform copy from and to device memory. For this we need a new
-migration helper::
-
- int migrate_vma(const struct migrate_vma_ops *ops,
- struct vm_area_struct *vma,
- unsigned long mentries,
- unsigned long start,
- unsigned long end,
- unsigned long *src,
- unsigned long *dst,
- void *private);
-
-Unlike other migration functions it works on a range of virtual address, there
-are two reasons for that. First, device DMA copy has a high setup overhead cost
-and thus batching multiple pages is needed as otherwise the migration overhead
-makes the whole exercise pointless. The second reason is because the
-migration might be for a range of addresses the device is actively accessing.
-
-The migrate_vma_ops struct defines two callbacks. First one (alloc_and_copy())
-controls destination memory allocation and copy operation. Second one is there
-to allow the device driver to perform cleanup operations after migration::
-
- struct migrate_vma_ops {
- void (*alloc_and_copy)(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
- const unsigned long *src,
- unsigned long *dst,
- unsigned long start,
- unsigned long end,
- void *private);
- void (*finalize_and_map)(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
- const unsigned long *src,
- const unsigned long *dst,
- unsigned long start,
- unsigned long end,
- void *private);
- };
-
-It is important to stress that these migration helpers allow for holes in the
-virtual address range. Some pages in the range might not be migrated for all
-the usual reasons (page is pinned, page is locked, ...). This helper does not
-fail but just skips over those pages.
-
-The alloc_and_copy() might decide to not migrate all pages in the
-range (for reasons under the callback control). For those, the callback just
-has to leave the corresponding dst entry empty.
-
-Finally, the migration of the struct page might fail (for file backed page) for
-various reasons (failure to freeze reference, or update page cache, ...). If
-that happens, then the finalize_and_map() can catch any pages that were not
-migrated. Note those pages were still copied to a new page and thus we wasted
-bandwidth but this is considered as a rare event and a price that we are
-willing to pay to keep all the code simpler.
+engine to perform copy from and to device memory. For this we need to use
+migrate_vma_setup(), migrate_vma_pages(), and migrate_vma_finalize() helpers.
Memory cgroup (memcg) and rss accounting