v1: AMD is building a system architecture for the Frontier supercomputer with a coherent interconnect between CPUs and GPUs. This hardware architecture allows the CPUs to coherently access GPU device memory. We have hardware in our labs and we are working with our partner HPE on the BIOS, firmware and software for delivery to the DOE.
The system BIOS advertises the GPU device memory (aka VRAM) as SPM (special purpose memory) in the UEFI system address map. The amdgpu driver looks it up with lookup_resource and registers it with devmap as MEMORY_DEVICE_GENERIC using devm_memremap_pages.
Now we're trying to migrate data to and from that memory using the migrate_vma_* helpers so we can support page-based migration in our unified memory allocations, while also supporting CPU access to those pages.
This patch series makes a few changes to make MEMORY_DEVICE_GENERIC pages behave correctly in the migrate_vma_* helpers. We are looking for feedback about this approach. If we're close, what's needed to make our patches acceptable upstream? If we're not close, any suggestions how else to achieve what we are trying to do (i.e. page migration and coherent CPU access to VRAM)?
This work is based on HMM and our SVM memory manager that was recently upstreamed to Dave Airlie's drm-next branch https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20210527205606.2660-6-Felix.Kuehling@amd.c... On top of that we did some rework of our VRAM management for migrations to remove some incorrect assumptions, allow partially successful migrations and GPU memory mappings that mix pages in VRAM and system memory. https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/dri-devel/list/?series=489811
v2: This patch series version has merged "[RFC PATCH v3 0/2] mm: remove extra ZONE_DEVICE struct page refcount" patch series made by Ralph Campbell. It also applies at the top of these series, our changes to support device generic type in migration_vma helpers. This has been tested in systems with device memory that has coherent access by CPU.
Also addresses the following feedback made in v1: - Isolate in one patch kernel/resource.c modification, based on Christoph's feedback. - Add helpers check for generic and private type to avoid duplicated long lines.
v3: - Include cover letter from v1 - Rename dax_layout_is_idle_page func to dax_page_unused in patch ext4/xfs: add page refcount helper
Patches 1-2 Rebased Ralph Campbell's ZONE_DEVICE page refcounting patches Patches 4-5 are for context to show how we are looking up the SPM memory and registering it with devmap. Patches 3,6-8 are the changes we are trying to upstream or rework to make them acceptable upstream.
Alex Sierra (6): kernel: resource: lookup_resource as exported symbol drm/amdkfd: add SPM support for SVM drm/amdkfd: generic type as sys mem on migration to ram include/linux/mm.h: helpers to check zone device generic type mm: add generic type support to migrate_vma helpers mm: call pgmap->ops->page_free for DEVICE_GENERIC pages
Ralph Campbell (2): ext4/xfs: add page refcount helper mm: remove extra ZONE_DEVICE struct page refcount
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_uvmem.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_migrate.c | 15 ++++-- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_dmem.c | 2 +- fs/dax.c | 8 +-- fs/ext4/inode.c | 5 +- fs/xfs/xfs_file.c | 4 +- include/linux/dax.h | 10 ++++ include/linux/memremap.h | 7 +-- include/linux/mm.h | 52 +++--------------- kernel/resource.c | 2 +- lib/test_hmm.c | 2 +- mm/internal.h | 8 +++ mm/memremap.c | 69 +++++++----------------- mm/migrate.c | 13 ++--- mm/page_alloc.c | 3 ++ mm/swap.c | 45 ++-------------- 16 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 164 deletions(-)