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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux</title>
<updated>2014-12-15T23:52:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-15T23:52:01+00:00</published>
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Pull drm updates from Dave Airlie:
 "Highlights:

   - AMD KFD driver merge

     This is the AMD HSA interface for exposing a lowlevel interface for
     GPGPU use.  They have an open source userspace built on top of this
     interface, and the code looks as good as it was going to get out of
     tree.

   - Initial atomic modesetting work

     The need for an atomic modesetting interface to allow userspace to
     try and send a complete set of modesetting state to the driver has
     arisen, and been suffering from neglect this past year.  No more,
     the start of the common code and changes for msm driver to use it
     are in this tree.  Ongoing work to get the userspace ioctl finished
     and the code clean will probably wait until next kernel.

   - DisplayID 1.3 and tiled monitor exposed to userspace.

     Tiled monitor property is now exposed for userspace to make use of.

   - Rockchip drm driver merged.

   - imx gpu driver moved out of staging

  Other stuff:

   - core:
        panel - MIPI DSI + new panels.
        expose suggested x/y properties for virtual GPUs

   - i915:
        Initial Skylake (SKL) support
        gen3/4 reset work
        start of dri1/ums removal
        infoframe tracking
        fixes for lots of things.

   - nouveau:
        tegra k1 voltage support
        GM204 modesetting support
        GT21x memory reclocking work

   - radeon:
        CI dpm fixes
        GPUVM improvements
        Initial DPM fan control

   - rcar-du:
        HDMI support added
        removed some support for old boards
        slave encoder driver for Analog Devices adv7511

   - exynos:
        Exynos4415 SoC support

   - msm:
        a4xx gpu support
        atomic helper conversion

   - tegra:
        iommu support
        universal plane support
        ganged-mode DSI support

   - sti:
        HDMI i2c improvements

   - vmwgfx:
        some late fixes.

   - qxl:
        use suggested x/y properties"

* 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: (969 commits)
  drm: sti: fix module compilation issue
  drm/i915: save/restore GMBUS freq across suspend/resume on gen4
  drm: sti: correctly cleanup CRTC and planes
  drm: sti: add HQVDP plane
  drm: sti: add cursor plane
  drm: sti: enable auxiliary CRTC
  drm: sti: fix delay in VTG programming
  drm: sti: prepare sti_tvout to support auxiliary crtc
  drm: sti: use drm_crtc_vblank_{on/off} instead of drm_vblank_{on/off}
  drm: sti: fix hdmi avi infoframe
  drm: sti: remove event lock while disabling vblank
  drm: sti: simplify gdp code
  drm: sti: clear all mixer control
  drm: sti: remove gpio for HDMI hot plug detection
  drm: sti: allow to change hdmi ddc i2c adapter
  drm/doc: Document drm_add_modes_noedid() usage
  drm/i915: Remove '&amp; 0xffff' from the mask given to WA_REG()
  drm/i915: Invert the mask and val arguments in wa_add() and WA_REG()
  drm: Zero out DRM object memory upon cleanup
  drm/i915/bdw: Fix the write setting up the WIZ hashing mode
  ...
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Pull drm updates from Dave Airlie:
 "Highlights:

   - AMD KFD driver merge

     This is the AMD HSA interface for exposing a lowlevel interface for
     GPGPU use.  They have an open source userspace built on top of this
     interface, and the code looks as good as it was going to get out of
     tree.

   - Initial atomic modesetting work

     The need for an atomic modesetting interface to allow userspace to
     try and send a complete set of modesetting state to the driver has
     arisen, and been suffering from neglect this past year.  No more,
     the start of the common code and changes for msm driver to use it
     are in this tree.  Ongoing work to get the userspace ioctl finished
     and the code clean will probably wait until next kernel.

   - DisplayID 1.3 and tiled monitor exposed to userspace.

     Tiled monitor property is now exposed for userspace to make use of.

   - Rockchip drm driver merged.

   - imx gpu driver moved out of staging

  Other stuff:

   - core:
        panel - MIPI DSI + new panels.
        expose suggested x/y properties for virtual GPUs

   - i915:
        Initial Skylake (SKL) support
        gen3/4 reset work
        start of dri1/ums removal
        infoframe tracking
        fixes for lots of things.

   - nouveau:
        tegra k1 voltage support
        GM204 modesetting support
        GT21x memory reclocking work

   - radeon:
        CI dpm fixes
        GPUVM improvements
        Initial DPM fan control

   - rcar-du:
        HDMI support added
        removed some support for old boards
        slave encoder driver for Analog Devices adv7511

   - exynos:
        Exynos4415 SoC support

   - msm:
        a4xx gpu support
        atomic helper conversion

   - tegra:
        iommu support
        universal plane support
        ganged-mode DSI support

   - sti:
        HDMI i2c improvements

   - vmwgfx:
        some late fixes.

   - qxl:
        use suggested x/y properties"

* 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: (969 commits)
  drm: sti: fix module compilation issue
  drm/i915: save/restore GMBUS freq across suspend/resume on gen4
  drm: sti: correctly cleanup CRTC and planes
  drm: sti: add HQVDP plane
  drm: sti: add cursor plane
  drm: sti: enable auxiliary CRTC
  drm: sti: fix delay in VTG programming
  drm: sti: prepare sti_tvout to support auxiliary crtc
  drm: sti: use drm_crtc_vblank_{on/off} instead of drm_vblank_{on/off}
  drm: sti: fix hdmi avi infoframe
  drm: sti: remove event lock while disabling vblank
  drm: sti: simplify gdp code
  drm: sti: clear all mixer control
  drm: sti: remove gpio for HDMI hot plug detection
  drm: sti: allow to change hdmi ddc i2c adapter
  drm/doc: Document drm_add_modes_noedid() usage
  drm/i915: Remove '&amp; 0xffff' from the mask given to WA_REG()
  drm/i915: Invert the mask and val arguments in wa_add() and WA_REG()
  drm: Zero out DRM object memory upon cleanup
  drm/i915/bdw: Fix the write setting up the WIZ hashing mode
  ...
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<entry>
<title>mm: convert i_mmap_mutex to rwsem</title>
<updated>2014-12-13T20:42:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Davidlohr Bueso</name>
<email>dave@stgolabs.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-13T00:54:24+00:00</published>
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The i_mmap_mutex is a close cousin of the anon vma lock, both protecting
similar data, one for file backed pages and the other for anon memory.  To
this end, this lock can also be a rwsem.  In addition, there are some
important opportunities to share the lock when there are no tree
modifications.

This conversion is straightforward.  For now, all users take the write
lock.

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: update fremap.c]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dbueso@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The i_mmap_mutex is a close cousin of the anon vma lock, both protecting
similar data, one for file backed pages and the other for anon memory.  To
this end, this lock can also be a rwsem.  In addition, there are some
important opportunities to share the lock when there are no tree
modifications.

This conversion is straightforward.  For now, all users take the write
lock.

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: update fremap.c]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dbueso@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kvm: Fix page ageing bugs</title>
<updated>2014-09-24T12:07:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andres Lagar-Cavilla</name>
<email>andreslc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-22T21:54:42+00:00</published>
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1. We were calling clear_flush_young_notify in unmap_one, but we are
within an mmu notifier invalidate range scope. The spte exists no more
(due to range_start) and the accessed bit info has already been
propagated (due to kvm_pfn_set_accessed). Simply call
clear_flush_young.

2. We clear_flush_young on a primary MMU PMD, but this may be mapped
as a collection of PTEs by the secondary MMU (e.g. during log-dirty).
This required expanding the interface of the clear_flush_young mmu
notifier, so a lot of code has been trivially touched.

3. In the absence of shadow_accessed_mask (e.g. EPT A bit), we emulate
the access bit by blowing the spte. This requires proper synchronizing
with MMU notifier consumers, like every other removal of spte's does.

Signed-off-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla &lt;andreslc@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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1. We were calling clear_flush_young_notify in unmap_one, but we are
within an mmu notifier invalidate range scope. The spte exists no more
(due to range_start) and the accessed bit info has already been
propagated (due to kvm_pfn_set_accessed). Simply call
clear_flush_young.

2. We clear_flush_young on a primary MMU PMD, but this may be mapped
as a collection of PTEs by the secondary MMU (e.g. during log-dirty).
This required expanding the interface of the clear_flush_young mmu
notifier, so a lot of code has been trivially touched.

3. In the absence of shadow_accessed_mask (e.g. EPT A bit), we emulate
the access bit by blowing the spte. This requires proper synchronizing
with MMU notifier consumers, like every other removal of spte's does.

Signed-off-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla &lt;andreslc@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mmu_notifier: add call_srcu and sync function for listener to delay call and sync</title>
<updated>2014-08-07T01:01:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-06T23:08:20+00:00</published>
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When kernel device drivers or subsystems want to bind their lifespan to
t= he lifespan of the mm_struct, they usually use one of the following
methods:

1. Manually calling a function in the interested kernel module.  The
   funct= ion call needs to be placed in mmput.  This method was rejected
   by several ker= nel maintainers.

2. Registering to the mmu notifier release mechanism.

The problem with the latter approach is that the mmu_notifier_release
cal= lback is called from__mmu_notifier_release (called from exit_mmap).
That functi= on iterates over the list of mmu notifiers and don't expect
the release call= back function to remove itself from the list.
Therefore, the callback function= in the kernel module can't release the
mmu_notifier_object, which is actuall= y the kernel module's object
itself.  As a result, the destruction of the kernel module's object must
to be done in a delayed fashion.

This patch adds support for this delayed callback, by adding a new
mmu_notifier_call_srcu function that receives a function ptr and calls
th= at function with call_srcu.  In that function, the kernel module
releases its object.  To use mmu_notifier_call_srcu, the calling module
needs to call b= efore that a new function called
mmu_notifier_unregister_no_release that as its= name implies,
unregisters a notifier without calling its notifier release call= back.

This patch also adds a function that will call barrier_srcu so those
kern= el modules can sync with mmu_notifier.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oded Gabbay &lt;oded.gabbay@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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When kernel device drivers or subsystems want to bind their lifespan to
t= he lifespan of the mm_struct, they usually use one of the following
methods:

1. Manually calling a function in the interested kernel module.  The
   funct= ion call needs to be placed in mmput.  This method was rejected
   by several ker= nel maintainers.

2. Registering to the mmu notifier release mechanism.

The problem with the latter approach is that the mmu_notifier_release
cal= lback is called from__mmu_notifier_release (called from exit_mmap).
That functi= on iterates over the list of mmu notifiers and don't expect
the release call= back function to remove itself from the list.
Therefore, the callback function= in the kernel module can't release the
mmu_notifier_object, which is actuall= y the kernel module's object
itself.  As a result, the destruction of the kernel module's object must
to be done in a delayed fashion.

This patch adds support for this delayed callback, by adding a new
mmu_notifier_call_srcu function that receives a function ptr and calls
th= at function with call_srcu.  In that function, the kernel module
releases its object.  To use mmu_notifier_call_srcu, the calling module
needs to call b= efore that a new function called
mmu_notifier_unregister_no_release that as its= name implies,
unregisters a notifier without calling its notifier release call= back.

This patch also adds a function that will call barrier_srcu so those
kern= el modules can sync with mmu_notifier.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oded Gabbay &lt;oded.gabbay@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mmu_notifier: add the callback for mmu_notifier_invalidate_range()</title>
<updated>2014-11-13T02:46:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joerg Roedel</name>
<email>jroedel@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-13T02:46:09+00:00</published>
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Now that the mmu_notifier_invalidate_range() calls are in place, add the
callback to allow subsystems to register against it.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jérôme Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;jweiner@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jay Cornwall &lt;Jay.Cornwall@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Oded Gabbay &lt;Oded.Gabbay@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Suravee Suthikulpanit &lt;Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Jesse Barnes &lt;jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oded Gabbay &lt;oded.gabbay@amd.com&gt;
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Now that the mmu_notifier_invalidate_range() calls are in place, add the
callback to allow subsystems to register against it.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jérôme Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;jweiner@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jay Cornwall &lt;Jay.Cornwall@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Oded Gabbay &lt;Oded.Gabbay@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Suravee Suthikulpanit &lt;Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Jesse Barnes &lt;jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oded Gabbay &lt;oded.gabbay@amd.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mmu_notifier: call mmu_notifier_invalidate_range() from VMM</title>
<updated>2014-11-13T02:46:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joerg Roedel</name>
<email>jroedel@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-13T02:46:09+00:00</published>
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Add calls to the new mmu_notifier_invalidate_range() function to all
places in the VMM that need it.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jérôme Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;jweiner@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jay Cornwall &lt;Jay.Cornwall@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Oded Gabbay &lt;Oded.Gabbay@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Suravee Suthikulpanit &lt;Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Jesse Barnes &lt;jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oded Gabbay &lt;oded.gabbay@amd.com&gt;
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Add calls to the new mmu_notifier_invalidate_range() function to all
places in the VMM that need it.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jérôme Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;jweiner@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jay Cornwall &lt;Jay.Cornwall@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Oded Gabbay &lt;Oded.Gabbay@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Suravee Suthikulpanit &lt;Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Jesse Barnes &lt;jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oded Gabbay &lt;oded.gabbay@amd.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mmu_notifier: add mmu_notifier_invalidate_range()</title>
<updated>2014-11-13T02:46:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joerg Roedel</name>
<email>jroedel@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-13T02:46:09+00:00</published>
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This notifier closes an important gap in the current mmu_notifier
implementation, the existing callbacks are called too early or too late to
reliably manage a non-CPU TLB.  Specifically, invalidate_range_start() is
called when all pages are still mapped and invalidate_range_end() when all
pages are unmapped and potentially freed.

This is fine when the users of the mmu_notifiers manage their own SoftTLB,
like KVM does.  When the TLB is managed in software it is easy to wipe out
entries for a given range and prevent new entries to be established until
invalidate_range_end is called.

But when the user of mmu_notifiers has to manage a hardware TLB it can
still wipe out TLB entries in invalidate_range_start, but it can't make
sure that no new TLB entries in the given range are established between
invalidate_range_start and invalidate_range_end.

To avoid silent data corruption the entries in the non-CPU TLB need to be
flushed when the pages are unmapped (at this point in time no _new_ TLB
entries can be established in the non-CPU TLB) but not yet freed (as the
non-CPU TLB may still have _existing_ entries pointing to the pages about
to be freed).

To fix this problem we need to catch the moment when the Linux VMM flushes
remote TLBs (as a non-CPU TLB is not very CPU TLB), as this is the point
in time when the pages are unmapped but _not_ yet freed.

The mmu_notifier_invalidate_range() function aims to catch that moment.

IOMMU code will be one user of the notifier-callback.  Currently this is
only the AMD IOMMUv2 driver, but its code is about to be more generalized
and converted to a generic IOMMU-API extension to fit the needs of similar
functionality in other IOMMUs as well.

The current attempt in the AMD IOMMUv2 driver to work around the
invalidate_range_start/end() shortcoming is to assign an empty page table
to the non-CPU TLB between any invalidata_range_start/end calls.  With the
empty page-table assigned, every page-table walk to re-fill the non-CPU
TLB will cause a page-fault reported to the IOMMU driver via an interrupt,
possibly causing interrupt storms.

The page-fault handler in the AMD IOMMUv2 driver doesn't handle the fault
if an invalidate_range_start/end pair is active, it just reports back
SUCCESS to the device and let it refault the page.  But existing hardware
(newer Radeon GPUs) that makes use of this feature don't re-fault
indefinitly, after a certain number of faults for the same address the
device enters a failure state and needs to be resetted.

To avoid the GPUs entering a failure state we need to get rid of the
empty-page-table workaround and use the mmu_notifier_invalidate_range()
function introduced with this patch.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jérôme Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;jweiner@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jay Cornwall &lt;Jay.Cornwall@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Oded Gabbay &lt;Oded.Gabbay@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Suravee Suthikulpanit &lt;Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Jesse Barnes &lt;jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oded Gabbay &lt;oded.gabbay@amd.com&gt;
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This notifier closes an important gap in the current mmu_notifier
implementation, the existing callbacks are called too early or too late to
reliably manage a non-CPU TLB.  Specifically, invalidate_range_start() is
called when all pages are still mapped and invalidate_range_end() when all
pages are unmapped and potentially freed.

This is fine when the users of the mmu_notifiers manage their own SoftTLB,
like KVM does.  When the TLB is managed in software it is easy to wipe out
entries for a given range and prevent new entries to be established until
invalidate_range_end is called.

But when the user of mmu_notifiers has to manage a hardware TLB it can
still wipe out TLB entries in invalidate_range_start, but it can't make
sure that no new TLB entries in the given range are established between
invalidate_range_start and invalidate_range_end.

To avoid silent data corruption the entries in the non-CPU TLB need to be
flushed when the pages are unmapped (at this point in time no _new_ TLB
entries can be established in the non-CPU TLB) but not yet freed (as the
non-CPU TLB may still have _existing_ entries pointing to the pages about
to be freed).

To fix this problem we need to catch the moment when the Linux VMM flushes
remote TLBs (as a non-CPU TLB is not very CPU TLB), as this is the point
in time when the pages are unmapped but _not_ yet freed.

The mmu_notifier_invalidate_range() function aims to catch that moment.

IOMMU code will be one user of the notifier-callback.  Currently this is
only the AMD IOMMUv2 driver, but its code is about to be more generalized
and converted to a generic IOMMU-API extension to fit the needs of similar
functionality in other IOMMUs as well.

The current attempt in the AMD IOMMUv2 driver to work around the
invalidate_range_start/end() shortcoming is to assign an empty page table
to the non-CPU TLB between any invalidata_range_start/end calls.  With the
empty page-table assigned, every page-table walk to re-fill the non-CPU
TLB will cause a page-fault reported to the IOMMU driver via an interrupt,
possibly causing interrupt storms.

The page-fault handler in the AMD IOMMUv2 driver doesn't handle the fault
if an invalidate_range_start/end pair is active, it just reports back
SUCCESS to the device and let it refault the page.  But existing hardware
(newer Radeon GPUs) that makes use of this feature don't re-fault
indefinitly, after a certain number of faults for the same address the
device enters a failure state and needs to be resetted.

To avoid the GPUs entering a failure state we need to get rid of the
empty-page-table workaround and use the mmu_notifier_invalidate_range()
function introduced with this patch.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jérôme Glisse &lt;jglisse@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;jweiner@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jay Cornwall &lt;Jay.Cornwall@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Oded Gabbay &lt;Oded.Gabbay@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Suravee Suthikulpanit &lt;Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Jesse Barnes &lt;jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Oded Gabbay &lt;oded.gabbay@amd.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: fix wrong comments about anon_vma lock</title>
<updated>2013-02-05T09:38:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yuanhan Liu</name>
<email>yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-04T22:28:48+00:00</published>
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We use rwsem since commit 5a505085f043 ("mm/rmap: Convert the struct
anon_vma::mutex to an rwsem").  And most of comments are converted to
the new rwsem lock; while just 2 more missed from:

	 $ git grep 'anon_vma-&gt;mutex'

Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu &lt;yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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We use rwsem since commit 5a505085f043 ("mm/rmap: Convert the struct
anon_vma::mutex to an rwsem").  And most of comments are converted to
the new rwsem lock; while just 2 more missed from:

	 $ git grep 'anon_vma-&gt;mutex'

Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu &lt;yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mel@csn.ul.ie&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: move all mmu notifier invocations to be done outside the PT lock</title>
<updated>2012-10-09T07:22:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sagi Grimberg</name>
<email>sagig@mellanox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-08T23:33:33+00:00</published>
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In order to allow sleeping during mmu notifier calls, we need to avoid
invoking them under the page table spinlock.  This patch solves the
problem by calling invalidate_page notification after releasing the lock
(but before freeing the page itself), or by wrapping the page invalidation
with calls to invalidate_range_begin and invalidate_range_end.

To prevent accidental changes to the invalidate_range_end arguments after
the call to invalidate_range_begin, the patch introduces a convention of
saving the arguments in consistently named locals:

	unsigned long mmun_start;	/* For mmu_notifiers */
	unsigned long mmun_end;	/* For mmu_notifiers */

	...

	mmun_start = ...
	mmun_end = ...
	mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(mm, mmun_start, mmun_end);

	...

	mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(mm, mmun_start, mmun_end);

The patch changes code to use this convention for all calls to
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start/end, except those where the calls are
close enough so that anyone who glances at the code can see the values
aren't changing.

This patchset is a preliminary step towards on-demand paging design to be
added to the RDMA stack.

Why do we want on-demand paging for Infiniband?

  Applications register memory with an RDMA adapter using system calls,
  and subsequently post IO operations that refer to the corresponding
  virtual addresses directly to HW.  Until now, this was achieved by
  pinning the memory during the registration calls.  The goal of on demand
  paging is to avoid pinning the pages of registered memory regions (MRs).
   This will allow users the same flexibility they get when swapping any
  other part of their processes address spaces.  Instead of requiring the
  entire MR to fit in physical memory, we can allow the MR to be larger,
  and only fit the current working set in physical memory.

Why should anyone care?  What problems are users currently experiencing?

  This can make programming with RDMA much simpler.  Today, developers
  that are working with more data than their RAM can hold need either to
  deregister and reregister memory regions throughout their process's
  life, or keep a single memory region and copy the data to it.  On demand
  paging will allow these developers to register a single MR at the
  beginning of their process's life, and let the operating system manage
  which pages needs to be fetched at a given time.  In the future, we
  might be able to provide a single memory access key for each process
  that would provide the entire process's address as one large memory
  region, and the developers wouldn't need to register memory regions at
  all.

Is there any prospect that any other subsystems will utilise these
infrastructural changes?  If so, which and how, etc?

  As for other subsystems, I understand that XPMEM wanted to sleep in
  MMU notifiers, as Christoph Lameter wrote at
  http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0802.1/0460.html and
  perhaps Andrea knows about other use cases.

  Scheduling in mmu notifications is required since we need to sync the
  hardware with the secondary page tables change.  A TLB flush of an IO
  device is inherently slower than a CPU TLB flush, so our design works by
  sending the invalidation request to the device, and waiting for an
  interrupt before exiting the mmu notifier handler.

Avi said:

  kvm may be a buyer.  kvm::mmu_lock, which serializes guest page
  faults, also protects long operations such as destroying large ranges.
  It would be good to convert it into a spinlock, but as it is used inside
  mmu notifiers, this cannot be done.

  (there are alternatives, such as keeping the spinlock and using a
  generation counter to do the teardown in O(1), which is what the "may"
  is doing up there).

[akpm@linux-foundation.orgpossible speed tweak in hugetlb_cow(), cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;andrea@qumranet.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg &lt;sagig@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Haggai Eran &lt;haggaie@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Xiao Guangrong &lt;xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Or Gerlitz &lt;ogerlitz@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Haggai Eran &lt;haggaie@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Shachar Raindel &lt;raindel@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Liran Liss &lt;liranl@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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In order to allow sleeping during mmu notifier calls, we need to avoid
invoking them under the page table spinlock.  This patch solves the
problem by calling invalidate_page notification after releasing the lock
(but before freeing the page itself), or by wrapping the page invalidation
with calls to invalidate_range_begin and invalidate_range_end.

To prevent accidental changes to the invalidate_range_end arguments after
the call to invalidate_range_begin, the patch introduces a convention of
saving the arguments in consistently named locals:

	unsigned long mmun_start;	/* For mmu_notifiers */
	unsigned long mmun_end;	/* For mmu_notifiers */

	...

	mmun_start = ...
	mmun_end = ...
	mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(mm, mmun_start, mmun_end);

	...

	mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(mm, mmun_start, mmun_end);

The patch changes code to use this convention for all calls to
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start/end, except those where the calls are
close enough so that anyone who glances at the code can see the values
aren't changing.

This patchset is a preliminary step towards on-demand paging design to be
added to the RDMA stack.

Why do we want on-demand paging for Infiniband?

  Applications register memory with an RDMA adapter using system calls,
  and subsequently post IO operations that refer to the corresponding
  virtual addresses directly to HW.  Until now, this was achieved by
  pinning the memory during the registration calls.  The goal of on demand
  paging is to avoid pinning the pages of registered memory regions (MRs).
   This will allow users the same flexibility they get when swapping any
  other part of their processes address spaces.  Instead of requiring the
  entire MR to fit in physical memory, we can allow the MR to be larger,
  and only fit the current working set in physical memory.

Why should anyone care?  What problems are users currently experiencing?

  This can make programming with RDMA much simpler.  Today, developers
  that are working with more data than their RAM can hold need either to
  deregister and reregister memory regions throughout their process's
  life, or keep a single memory region and copy the data to it.  On demand
  paging will allow these developers to register a single MR at the
  beginning of their process's life, and let the operating system manage
  which pages needs to be fetched at a given time.  In the future, we
  might be able to provide a single memory access key for each process
  that would provide the entire process's address as one large memory
  region, and the developers wouldn't need to register memory regions at
  all.

Is there any prospect that any other subsystems will utilise these
infrastructural changes?  If so, which and how, etc?

  As for other subsystems, I understand that XPMEM wanted to sleep in
  MMU notifiers, as Christoph Lameter wrote at
  http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0802.1/0460.html and
  perhaps Andrea knows about other use cases.

  Scheduling in mmu notifications is required since we need to sync the
  hardware with the secondary page tables change.  A TLB flush of an IO
  device is inherently slower than a CPU TLB flush, so our design works by
  sending the invalidation request to the device, and waiting for an
  interrupt before exiting the mmu notifier handler.

Avi said:

  kvm may be a buyer.  kvm::mmu_lock, which serializes guest page
  faults, also protects long operations such as destroying large ranges.
  It would be good to convert it into a spinlock, but as it is used inside
  mmu notifiers, this cannot be done.

  (there are alternatives, such as keeping the spinlock and using a
  generation counter to do the teardown in O(1), which is what the "may"
  is doing up there).

[akpm@linux-foundation.orgpossible speed tweak in hugetlb_cow(), cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;andrea@qumranet.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg &lt;sagig@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Haggai Eran &lt;haggaie@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Xiao Guangrong &lt;xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Or Gerlitz &lt;ogerlitz@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Haggai Eran &lt;haggaie@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Shachar Raindel &lt;raindel@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Liran Liss &lt;liranl@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Avi Kivity &lt;avi@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: mmu_notifier: have mmu_notifiers use a global SRCU so they may safely schedule</title>
<updated>2012-10-09T07:22:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sagi Grimberg</name>
<email>sagig@mellanox.co.il</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-08T23:29:24+00:00</published>
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With an RCU based mmu_notifier implementation, any callout to
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_{start,end}() or
mmu_notifier_invalidate_page() would not be allowed to call schedule()
as that could potentially allow a modification to the mmu_notifier
structure while it is currently being used.

Since srcu allocs 4 machine words per instance per cpu, we may end up
with memory exhaustion if we use srcu per mm.  So all mms share a global
srcu.  Note that during large mmu_notifier activity exit &amp; unregister
paths might hang for longer periods, but it is tolerable for current
mmu_notifier clients.

Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg &lt;sagig@mellanox.co.il&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Haggai Eran &lt;haggaie@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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With an RCU based mmu_notifier implementation, any callout to
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_{start,end}() or
mmu_notifier_invalidate_page() would not be allowed to call schedule()
as that could potentially allow a modification to the mmu_notifier
structure while it is currently being used.

Since srcu allocs 4 machine words per instance per cpu, we may end up
with memory exhaustion if we use srcu per mm.  So all mms share a global
srcu.  Note that during large mmu_notifier activity exit &amp; unregister
paths might hang for longer periods, but it is tolerable for current
mmu_notifier clients.

Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg &lt;sagig@mellanox.co.il&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Haggai Eran &lt;haggaie@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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