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xen/gntdev: Use VM_MIXEDMAP instead of VM_IO to avoid NUMA balancing
commit 30faaafdfa0c754c91bac60f216c9f34a2bfdf7e upstream. Commit 9c17d96 ("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@aepfle.de> Suggested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Tested-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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@@ -804,7 +804,7 @@ static int gntdev_mmap(struct file *flip, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
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vma->vm_ops = &gntdev_vmops;
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vma->vm_flags |= VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP | VM_IO;
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vma->vm_flags |= VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP | VM_MIXEDMAP;
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if (use_ptemod)
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vma->vm_flags |= VM_DONTCOPY;

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