On 02.09.21 22:17, Peter Xu wrote:
It was conditionally done previously, as there's one shmem special case that we use SetPageDirty() instead. However that's not necessary and it should be easier and cleaner to do it unconditionally in mfill_atomic_install_pte(). The most recent discussion about this is here, where Hugh explained the history of SetPageDirty() and why it's possible that it's not required at all: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/alpine.LSU.2.11.2104121657050.1097@eggly.anvils/ Currently mfill_atomic_install_pte() has three callers: 1. shmem_mfill_atomic_pte 2. mcopy_atomic_pte 3. mcontinue_atomic_pte After the change: case (1) should have its SetPageDirty replaced by the dirty bit on pte (so we unify them together, finally), case (2) should have no functional change at all as it has page_in_cache==false, case (3) may add a dirty bit to the pte. However since case (3) is UFFDIO_CONTINUE for shmem, it's merely 100% sure the page is dirty after all, so should not make a real difference either.
Would it be worth adding VM_BUG_ON() to make sure that "100%" is really the case?
This should make it much easier to follow on which case will set dirty for uffd, as we'll simply set it all now for all uffd related ioctls. Meanwhile, no special handling of SetPageDirty() if there's no need.
To me this all sounds sane, but I'm certainly not an expert on that code, so ...
-- Thanks, David / dhildenb
