Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm/migrate: Fix read-only page got writable when recover pte

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On 15.11.22 19:03, Peter Xu wrote:
On Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 06:22:03PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
That's precisely what I had in mind recently, and I am happy to hear that
you have similar idea:

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221108174652.198904-6-david@xxxxxxxxxx

"
Note that we don't optimize for the actual migration case:
(1) When migration succeeds the new PTE will not be writable because the
     source PTE was not writable (protnone); in the future we
     might just optimize that case similarly by reusing
     can_change_pte_writable()/can_change_pmd_writable() when removing
     migration PTEs.
"

I see, sorry I haven't yet read it, but sounds doable indeed.


Currently, "readable_migration_entry" is even wrong: it might be PROT_NONE
and not even readable.

Do you mean mprotect(PROT_NONE)?

If we read the "read migration entry" as "migration entry with no write
bit", it seems still fine, and code-wise after pte recovered it should
still be PROT_NONE iiuc because mk_pte() will just make a pte without
e.g. _PRESENT bit set on x86 while it'll have the _PROT_NONE bit.

Exactly that's the unintuitive interpretation of "readable_migration_entry". By "wrong" I meant: the naming is wrong.


May not keep true for numa balancing though: when migration happens after a
numa hint applied to a pte, it seems to me it's prone to lose the hint
after migration completes (assuming this migration is not the numa
balancing operation itself caused by a page access).  Doesn't sound like a
severe issue though even if I didn't miss something, since if the page got
moved around the original hint may need to reconsider anyway.

Yes, I think any migration will lose fake PROT_NONE. "Fake" as in "not VMA permissions" but "additional permissions imposed by NUMA hinting faults."

--
Thanks,

David / dhildenb





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