If page modifications are being monitoried with the soft dirty mechanism, then this information is contained in page table entries. Tracking is enabled on a 'per-process' basis. hugetlb pmd sharing allows processes to share page table entries. This makes pmd sharing incompatible with soft dirty monitoring. So, pmd sharing must be disabled if soft dirty tracking is in use. The VM_SOFTDIRTY flag is set in all vma's by default. When soft dirty monitoring is started, the flag is cleared. We can therefore allow pmd sharing in vmas with the VM_SOFTDIRTY flag set. Check this when deciding to perform pmd sharing. A subsequent patch will add code to allow soft dirty monitoring for hugetlb vmas. Any existing pmd sharing will be undone at that time. Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/hugetlb.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index b561b6867ec1..cf4aa63be9b1 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -5285,6 +5285,13 @@ static bool vma_shareable(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr) unsigned long base = addr & PUD_MASK; unsigned long end = base + PUD_SIZE; + /* + * Do not allow pmd sharing if soft dirty tracking is in use. + */ + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY) && + !(vma->vm_flags & VM_SOFTDIRTY)) + return false; + /* * check on proper vm_flags and page table alignment */ -- 2.29.2
