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authorRalph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>2022-07-25 11:36:14 -0700
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2022-07-29 11:33:37 -0700
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mm/hmm: fault non-owner device private entries
If hmm_range_fault() is called with the HMM_PFN_REQ_FAULT flag and a device private PTE is found, the hmm_range::dev_private_owner page is used to determine if the device private page should not be faulted in. However, if the device private page is not owned by the caller, hmm_range_fault() returns an error instead of calling migrate_to_ram() to fault in the page. For example, if a page is migrated to GPU private memory and a RDMA fault capable NIC tries to read the migrated page, without this patch it will get an error. With this patch, the page will be migrated back to system memory and the NIC will be able to read the data. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220727000837.4128709-2-rcampbell@nvidia.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220725183615.4118795-2-rcampbell@nvidia.com Fixes: 08ddddda667b ("mm/hmm: check the device private page owner in hmm_range_fault()") Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com> Reported-by: Felix Kuehling <felix.kuehling@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Philip Yang <Philip.Yang@amd.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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