When memory is migrated to the GPU, it is likely to be accessed by GPU
code soon afterwards. Instead of waiting for a GPU fault, map the
migrated memory into the GPU page tables with the same access permissions
as the source CPU page table entries. This preserves copy on write
semantics.
Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
This add an ioctl to migrate a range of process address space to the
device memory. On platform without cache coherent bus (x86, ARM, ...)
this means that CPU can not access that range directly, instead CPU
will fault which will migrate the memory back to system memory.
This is behind a staging flag so that we can evolve the API.
Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
This uses HMM to mirror a process' CPU page tables into a channel's page
tables, and keep them synchronised so that both the CPU and GPU are able
to access the same memory at the same virtual address.
While this code also supports Volta/Turing, it's only enabled for Pascal
GPUs currently due to channel recovery being unreliable right now on the
later GPUs.
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
Ralph Campbell