Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937656AbdCJONY (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Mar 2017 09:13:24 -0500 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:42638 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933866AbdCJLvT (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Mar 2017 06:51:19 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Olaf Hering" , "Juergen Gross" , "Boris Ostrovsky" , "Hugh Dickins" Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 11:46:22 +0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.16 056/370] xen/gntdev: Use VM_MIXEDMAP instead of VM_IO to avoid NUMA balancing In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 82.70.136.246 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1658 Lines: 58 3.16.42-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Boris Ostrovsky commit 30faaafdfa0c754c91bac60f216c9f34a2bfdf7e upstream. Commit 9c17d96500f7 ("xen/gntdev: Grant maps should not be subject to NUMA balancing") set VM_IO flag to prevent grant maps from being subjected to NUMA balancing. It was discovered recently that this flag causes get_user_pages() to always fail with -EFAULT. check_vma_flags __get_user_pages __get_user_pages_locked __get_user_pages_unlocked get_user_pages_fast iov_iter_get_pages dio_refill_pages do_direct_IO do_blockdev_direct_IO do_blockdev_direct_IO ext4_direct_IO_read generic_file_read_iter aio_run_iocb (which can happen if guest's vdisk has direct-io-safe option). To avoid this let's use VM_MIXEDMAP flag instead --- it prevents NUMA balancing just as VM_IO does and has no effect on check_vma_flags(). Reported-by: Olaf Hering Suggested-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Tested-by: Olaf Hering Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- drivers/xen/gntdev.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/xen/gntdev.c +++ b/drivers/xen/gntdev.c @@ -765,7 +765,7 @@ static int gntdev_mmap(struct file *flip vma->vm_ops = &gntdev_vmops; - vma->vm_flags |= VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP | VM_IO; + vma->vm_flags |= VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP | VM_MIXEDMAP; if (use_ptemod) vma->vm_flags |= VM_DONTCOPY;