The patch titled
Subject: mm/gup: drop folio_fast_pin_allowed() in hugepd processing
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
mm-gup-drop-folio_fast_pin_allowed-in-hugepd-processing.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-gup-drop-folio_fast_pin_allowed-in-hugepd-processing.patch
This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/gup: drop folio_fast_pin_allowed() in hugepd processing
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 18:07:55 -0400
Hugepd format for GUP is only used in PowerPC with hugetlbfs. There are
some kernel usage of hugepd (can refer to hugepd_populate_kernel() for
PPC_8XX), however those pages are not candidates for GUP.
Commit a6e79df92e4a ("mm/gup: disallow FOLL_LONGTERM GUP-fast writing to
file-backed mappings") added a check to fail gup-fast if there's potential
risk of violating GUP over writeback file systems. That should never
apply to hugepd. Considering that hugepd is an old format (and even
software-only), there's no plan to extend hugepd into other file typed
memories that is prone to the same issue.
Drop that check, not only because it'll never be true for hugepd per any
known plan, but also it paves way for reusing the function outside
fast-gup.
To make sure we'll still remember this issue just in case hugepd will be
extended to support non-hugetlbfs memories, add a rich comment above
gup_huge_pd(), explaining the issue with proper references.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240321220802.679544-6-peterx@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Jones <andrew.jones@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: James Houghton <jthoughton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/gup.c | 13 ++++++++-----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/gup.c~mm-gup-drop-folio_fast_pin_allowed-in-hugepd-processing
+++ a/mm/gup.c
@@ -2831,11 +2831,6 @@ static int gup_hugepte(pte_t *ptep, unsi
return 0;
}
- if (!folio_fast_pin_allowed(folio, flags)) {
- gup_put_folio(folio, refs, flags);
- return 0;
- }
-
if (!pte_write(pte) && gup_must_unshare(NULL, flags, &folio->page)) {
gup_put_folio(folio, refs, flags);
return 0;
@@ -2846,6 +2841,14 @@ static int gup_hugepte(pte_t *ptep, unsi
return 1;
}
+/*
+ * NOTE: currently GUP for a hugepd is only possible on hugetlbfs file
+ * systems on Power, which does not have issue with folio writeback against
+ * GUP updates. When hugepd will be extended to support non-hugetlbfs or
+ * even anonymous memory, we need to do extra check as what we do with most
+ * of the other folios. See writable_file_mapping_allowed() and
+ * folio_fast_pin_allowed() for more information.
+ */
static int gup_huge_pd(hugepd_t hugepd, unsigned long addr,
unsigned int pdshift, unsigned long end, unsigned int flags,
struct page **pages, int *nr)
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from peterx@xxxxxxxxxx are
mm-memory-fix-missing-pte-marker-for-page-on-pte-zaps.patch
mm-hmm-process-pud-swap-entry-without-pud_huge.patch
mm-gup-cache-p4d-in-follow_p4d_mask.patch
mm-gup-check-p4d-presence-before-going-on.patch
mm-x86-change-pxd_huge-behavior-to-exclude-swap-entries.patch
mm-sparc-change-pxd_huge-behavior-to-exclude-swap-entries.patch
mm-arm-use-macros-to-define-pmd-pud-helpers.patch
mm-arm-redefine-pmd_huge-with-pmd_leaf.patch
mm-arm64-merge-pxd_huge-and-pxd_leaf-definitions.patch
mm-powerpc-redefine-pxd_huge-with-pxd_leaf.patch
mm-gup-merge-pxd-huge-mapping-checks.patch
mm-treewide-replace-pxd_huge-with-pxd_leaf.patch
mm-treewide-remove-pxd_huge.patch
mm-arm-remove-pmd_thp_or_huge.patch
mm-document-pxd_leaf-api.patch
mm-kconfig-config_pgtable_has_huge_leaves.patch
mm-hugetlb-declare-hugetlbfs_pagecache_present-non-static.patch
mm-make-hpage_pxd_-macros-even-if-thp.patch
mm-introduce-vma_pgtable_walk_beginend.patch
mm-gup-drop-folio_fast_pin_allowed-in-hugepd-processing.patch
mm-gup-refactor-record_subpages-to-find-1st-small-page.patch
mm-gup-handle-hugetlb-for-no_page_table.patch
mm-gup-cache-pudp-in-follow_pud_mask.patch
mm-gup-handle-huge-pud-for-follow_pud_mask.patch
mm-gup-handle-huge-pmd-for-follow_pmd_mask.patch
mm-gup-handle-hugepd-for-follow_page.patch
mm-gup-handle-hugetlb-in-the-generic-follow_page_mask-code.patch
