On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 11:40:06AM +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>
> [v2]
> Based on linux-next/akpm [3dc4623]. For v4.1 merge window
> Incorporated comments from Andrew And Kirill
Not really. You've ignored most of them. See below.
> [v1]
> This will allow FS that uses VM_PFNMAP | VM_MIXEDMAP (no page structs)
> to get notified when access is a write to a read-only PFN.
>
> This can happen if we mmap() a file then first mmap-read from it
> to page-in a read-only PFN, than we mmap-write to the same page.
>
> We need this functionality to fix a DAX bug, where in the scenario
> above we fail to set ctime/mtime though we modified the file.
> An xfstest is attached to this patchset that shows the failure
> and the fix. (A DAX patch will follow)
>
> This functionality is extra important for us, because upon
> dirtying of a pmem page we also want to RDMA the page to a
> remote cluster node.
>
> We define a new pfn_mkwrite and do not reuse page_mkwrite because
> 1 - The name ;-)
> 2 - But mainly because it would take a very long and tedious
> audit of all page_mkwrite functions of VM_MIXEDMAP/VM_PFNMAP
> users. To make sure they do not now CRASH. For example current
> DAX code (which this is for) would crash.
> If we would want to reuse page_mkwrite, We will need to first
> patch all users, so to not-crash-on-no-page. Then enable this
> patch. But even if I did that I would not sleep so well at night.
> Adding a new vector is the safest thing to do, and is not that
> expensive. an extra pointer at a static function vector per driver.
> Also the new vector is better for performance, because else we
> Will call all current Kernel vectors, so to:
> check-ha-no-page-do-nothing and return.
>
> No need to call it from do_shared_fault because do_wp_page is called to
> change pte permissions anyway.
>
> CC: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
> CC: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
>
> Signed-off-by: Yigal Korman <yigal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/mm.h | 3 +++
> mm/memory.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
Please, document it in Documentation/filesystems/Locking.
> 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index d584b95..70c47f2 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -251,6 +251,9 @@ struct vm_operations_struct {
> * writable, if an error is returned it will cause a SIGBUS */
> int (*page_mkwrite)(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf);
>
> + /* same as page_mkwrite when using VM_PFNMAP|VM_MIXEDMAP */
> + int (*pfn_mkwrite)(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf);
> +
> /* called by access_process_vm when get_user_pages() fails, typically
> * for use by special VMAs that can switch between memory and hardware
> */
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index 59f6268..6e8f3f6 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -1982,6 +1982,19 @@ static int do_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page,
> return ret;
> }
>
> +static int do_pfn_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address)
> +{
> + struct vm_fault vmf = {
> + .page = 0,
.page = NULL,
> + .pgoff = (((address & PAGE_MASK) - vma->vm_start)
> + >> PAGE_SHIFT) + vma->vm_pgoff,
.pgoff = linear_page_index(vma, address),
> + .virtual_address = (void __user *)(address & PAGE_MASK),
> + .flags = FAULT_FLAG_WRITE | FAULT_FLAG_MKWRITE,
> + };
> +
> + return vma->vm_ops->pfn_mkwrite(vma, &vmf);
> +}
> +
> /*
> * Handle write page faults for pages that can be reused in the current vma
> *
> @@ -2259,14 +2272,28 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> * VM_PFNMAP VMA.
> *
> * We should not cow pages in a shared writeable mapping.
> - * Just mark the pages writable as we can't do any dirty
> - * accounting on raw pfn maps.
> + * Just mark the pages writable and/or call ops->pfn_mkwrite.
> */
> if ((vma->vm_flags & (VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED)) ==
> - (VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED))
> + (VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED)) {
Let's move this case in separate function -- wp_pfn_shared(). As we do for
wp_page_shared().
> + if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->pfn_mkwrite) {
> + int ret;
> +
> + pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl);
> + ret = do_pfn_mkwrite(vma, address);
> + if (ret & VM_FAULT_ERROR)
> + return ret;
> + page_table = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd,
> + address, &ptl);
> + /* Did pfn_mkwrite already fixed up the pte */
> + if (!pte_same(*page_table, orig_pte)) {
> + pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl);
> + return ret;
> + }
> + }
> return wp_page_reuse(mm, vma, address, page_table, ptl,
> orig_pte, old_page, 0, 0);
> -
> + }
> pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl);
> return wp_page_copy(mm, vma, address, page_table, pmd,
> orig_pte, old_page);
--
Kirill A. Shutemov
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