On Fri, Oct 6, 2023 at 12:53 PM Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
<willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It is usually safe to call wp_page_copy() under the VMA lock. The only
> unsafe situation is when no anon_vma has been allocated for this VMA,
> and we have to look at adjacent VMAs to determine if their anon_vma can
> be shared. Since this happens only for the first COW of a page in this
> VMA, the majority of calls to wp_page_copy() do not need to fall back
> to the mmap_sem.
>
> Add vmf_anon_prepare() as an alternative to anon_vma_prepare() which
> will return RETRY if we currently hold the VMA lock and need to allocate
> an anon_vma. This lets us drop the check in do_wp_page().
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/memory.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index 97f860d6cd2a..cff78c496728 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -3042,6 +3042,21 @@ static inline void wp_page_reuse(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> count_vm_event(PGREUSE);
> }
>
> +static vm_fault_t vmf_anon_prepare(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> +{
> + struct vm_area_struct *vma = vmf->vma;
> +
> + if (likely(vma->anon_vma))
> + return 0;
> + if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_VMA_LOCK) {
> + vma_end_read(vma);
> + return VM_FAULT_RETRY;
> + }
> + if (__anon_vma_prepare(vma))
> + return VM_FAULT_OOM;
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> /*
> * Handle the case of a page which we actually need to copy to a new page,
> * either due to COW or unsharing.
> @@ -3069,27 +3084,29 @@ static vm_fault_t wp_page_copy(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> pte_t entry;
> int page_copied = 0;
> struct mmu_notifier_range range;
> - int ret;
> + vm_fault_t ret;
>
> delayacct_wpcopy_start();
>
> if (vmf->page)
> old_folio = page_folio(vmf->page);
> - if (unlikely(anon_vma_prepare(vma)))
> - goto oom;
> + ret = vmf_anon_prepare(vmf);
> + if (unlikely(ret))
> + goto out;
>
> if (is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(vmf->orig_pte))) {
> new_folio = vma_alloc_zeroed_movable_folio(vma, vmf->address);
> if (!new_folio)
> goto oom;
> } else {
> + int err;
> new_folio = vma_alloc_folio(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, 0, vma,
> vmf->address, false);
> if (!new_folio)
> goto oom;
>
> - ret = __wp_page_copy_user(&new_folio->page, vmf->page, vmf);
> - if (ret) {
> + err = __wp_page_copy_user(&new_folio->page, vmf->page, vmf);
> + if (err) {
> /*
> * COW failed, if the fault was solved by other,
> * it's fine. If not, userspace would re-fault on
> @@ -3102,7 +3119,7 @@ static vm_fault_t wp_page_copy(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> folio_put(old_folio);
>
> delayacct_wpcopy_end();
> - return ret == -EHWPOISON ? VM_FAULT_HWPOISON : 0;
> + return err == -EHWPOISON ? VM_FAULT_HWPOISON : 0;
> }
> kmsan_copy_page_meta(&new_folio->page, vmf->page);
> }
> @@ -3212,11 +3229,13 @@ static vm_fault_t wp_page_copy(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> oom_free_new:
> folio_put(new_folio);
> oom:
> + ret = VM_FAULT_OOM;
> +out:
> if (old_folio)
> folio_put(old_folio);
>
> delayacct_wpcopy_end();
> - return VM_FAULT_OOM;
> + return ret;
> }
>
> /**
> @@ -3458,12 +3477,6 @@ static vm_fault_t do_wp_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> return 0;
> }
> copy:
> - if ((vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_VMA_LOCK) && !vma->anon_vma) {
> - pte_unmap_unlock(vmf->pte, vmf->ptl);
> - vma_end_read(vmf->vma);
> - return VM_FAULT_RETRY;
> - }
> -
> /*
> * Ok, we need to copy. Oh, well..
> */
> --
> 2.40.1
>
