The patch titled
Subject: mm/memory: slightly simplify copy_present_pte()
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-memory-slightly-simplify-copy_present_pte.patch
This patch should soon appear at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-memory-slightly-simplify-copy_present_pte.patch
and later at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-memory-slightly-simplify-copy_present_pte.patch
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From: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/memory: slightly simplify copy_present_pte()
Let's move the pinning check into the caller, to simplify return code
logic and prepare for further changes: relocating the
page_needs_cow_for_dma() into rmap handling code.
While at it, remove the unused pte parameter and simplify the comments a
bit.
No functional change intended.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220329160440.193848-4-david@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Don Dutile <ddutile@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Liang Zhang <zhangliang5@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pedro Demarchi Gomes <pedrodemargomes@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory.c | 53 +++++++++++++++-----------------------------------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/memory.c~mm-memory-slightly-simplify-copy_present_pte
+++ a/mm/memory.c
@@ -862,19 +862,11 @@ copy_nonpresent_pte(struct mm_struct *ds
}
/*
- * Copy a present and normal page if necessary.
+ * Copy a present and normal page.
*
- * NOTE! The usual case is that this doesn't need to do
- * anything, and can just return a positive value. That
- * will let the caller know that it can just increase
- * the page refcount and re-use the pte the traditional
- * way.
- *
- * But _if_ we need to copy it because it needs to be
- * pinned in the parent (and the child should get its own
- * copy rather than just a reference to the same page),
- * we'll do that here and return zero to let the caller
- * know we're done.
+ * NOTE! The usual case is that this isn't required;
+ * instead, the caller can just increase the page refcount
+ * and re-use the pte the traditional way.
*
* And if we need a pre-allocated page but don't yet have
* one, return a negative error to let the preallocation
@@ -884,25 +876,10 @@ copy_nonpresent_pte(struct mm_struct *ds
static inline int
copy_present_page(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma, struct vm_area_struct *src_vma,
pte_t *dst_pte, pte_t *src_pte, unsigned long addr, int *rss,
- struct page **prealloc, pte_t pte, struct page *page)
+ struct page **prealloc, struct page *page)
{
struct page *new_page;
-
- /*
- * What we want to do is to check whether this page may
- * have been pinned by the parent process. If so,
- * instead of wrprotect the pte on both sides, we copy
- * the page immediately so that we'll always guarantee
- * the pinned page won't be randomly replaced in the
- * future.
- *
- * The page pinning checks are just "has this mm ever
- * seen pinning", along with the (inexact) check of
- * the page count. That might give false positives for
- * for pinning, but it will work correctly.
- */
- if (likely(!page_needs_cow_for_dma(src_vma, page)))
- return 1;
+ pte_t pte;
new_page = *prealloc;
if (!new_page)
@@ -944,14 +921,16 @@ copy_present_pte(struct vm_area_struct *
struct page *page;
page = vm_normal_page(src_vma, addr, pte);
- if (page) {
- int retval;
-
- retval = copy_present_page(dst_vma, src_vma, dst_pte, src_pte,
- addr, rss, prealloc, pte, page);
- if (retval <= 0)
- return retval;
-
+ if (page && unlikely(page_needs_cow_for_dma(src_vma, page))) {
+ /*
+ * If this page may have been pinned by the parent process,
+ * copy the page immediately for the child so that we'll always
+ * guarantee the pinned page won't be randomly replaced in the
+ * future.
+ */
+ return copy_present_page(dst_vma, src_vma, dst_pte, src_pte,
+ addr, rss, prealloc, page);
+ } else if (page) {
get_page(page);
page_dup_rmap(page, false);
rss[mm_counter(page)]++;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from david@xxxxxxxxxx are
mm-rmap-fix-missing-swap_free-in-try_to_unmap-after-arch_unmap_one-failed.patch
mm-hugetlb-take-src_mm-write_protect_seq-in-copy_hugetlb_page_range.patch
mm-memory-slightly-simplify-copy_present_pte.patch
mm-rmap-split-page_dup_rmap-into-page_dup_file_rmap-and-page_try_dup_anon_rmap.patch
mm-rmap-convert-rmap-flags-to-a-proper-distinct-rmap_t-type.patch
mm-rmap-remove-do_page_add_anon_rmap.patch
mm-rmap-pass-rmap-flags-to-hugepage_add_anon_rmap.patch
mm-rmap-drop-compound-parameter-from-page_add_new_anon_rmap.patch
mm-rmap-use-page_move_anon_rmap-when-reusing-a-mapped-pageanon-page-exclusively.patch
mm-huge_memory-remove-outdated-vm_warn_on_once_page-from-unmap_page.patch
mm-page-flags-reuse-pg_mappedtodisk-as-pg_anon_exclusive-for-pageanon-pages.patch
mm-remember-exclusively-mapped-anonymous-pages-with-pg_anon_exclusive.patch
mm-gup-disallow-follow_pagefoll_pin.patch
mm-support-gup-triggered-unsharing-of-anonymous-pages.patch
mm-gup-trigger-fault_flag_unshare-when-r-o-pinning-a-possibly-shared-anonymous-page.patch
mm-gup-sanity-check-with-config_debug_vm-that-anonymous-pages-are-exclusive-when-unpinning.patch
mm-swap-remember-pg_anon_exclusive-via-a-swp-pte-bit.patch
mm-debug_vm_pgtable-add-tests-for-__have_arch_pte_swp_exclusive.patch
x86-pgtable-support-__have_arch_pte_swp_exclusive.patch
arm64-pgtable-support-__have_arch_pte_swp_exclusive.patch
s390-pgtable-cleanup-description-of-swp-pte-layout.patch
s390-pgtable-support-__have_arch_pte_swp_exclusive.patch
powerpc-pgtable-remove-_page_bit_swap_type-for-book3s.patch
powerpc-pgtable-support-__have_arch_pte_swp_exclusive-for-book3s.patch
