[Xen-devel] [PATCH v4] xen/gntdev: Use VM_MIXEDMAP instead of VM_IO to avoid NUMA balancing

[Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/xen/gntdev.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/xen/gntdev.c b/drivers/xen/gntdev.c
index bb95212..2ef2b61 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/gntdev.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/gntdev.c
@@ -1007,7 +1007,7 @@ static int gntdev_mmap(struct file *flip, struct 
vm_area_struct *vma)
 
        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;
-- 
1.7.1


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