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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:40:45 +0100
From: "Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
To: "Anton Salikhmetov" <salikhmetov@...il.com>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org, jakob@...hought.net,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, valdis.kletnieks@...edu,
riel@...hat.com, ksm@...dk, staubach@...hat.com,
torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
akpm@...ux-foundation.org, protasnb@...il.com, miklos@...redi.hu,
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hch@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v7 2/2] Update ctime and mtime for memory-mapped files
Some very pedantic nitpicking below;
On 22/01/2008, Anton Salikhmetov <salikhmetov@...il.com> wrote:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2645#c40
>
> Update file times at write references to memory-mapped files.
> Force file times update at the next write reference after
> calling the msync() system call with the MS_ASYNC flag.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Salikhmetov <salikhmetov@...il.com>
> ---
> mm/memory.c | 6 ++++++
> mm/msync.c | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> 2 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index 6dd1cd8..4b0144b 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -1670,6 +1670,9 @@ gotten:
> unlock:
> pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl);
> if (dirty_page) {
> + if (vma->vm_file)
> + file_update_time(vma->vm_file);
> +
> /*
> * Yes, Virginia, this is actually required to prevent a race
> * with clear_page_dirty_for_io() from clearing the page dirty
> @@ -2343,6 +2346,9 @@ out_unlocked:
> if (anon)
> page_cache_release(vmf.page);
> else if (dirty_page) {
> + if (vma->vm_file)
> + file_update_time(vma->vm_file);
> +
> set_page_dirty_balance(dirty_page, page_mkwrite);
> put_page(dirty_page);
> }
> diff --git a/mm/msync.c b/mm/msync.c
> index a4de868..394130d 100644
> --- a/mm/msync.c
> +++ b/mm/msync.c
> @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
> * Copyright (C) 2008 Anton Salikhmetov <salikhmetov@...il.com>
> */
>
> +#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
> #include <linux/file.h>
> #include <linux/fs.h>
> #include <linux/mm.h>
> @@ -13,11 +14,37 @@
> #include <linux/syscalls.h>
>
> /*
> + * Scan the PTEs for pages belonging to the VMA and mark them read-only.
> + * It will force a pagefault on the next write access.
> + */
> +static void vma_wrprotect(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> +{
> + unsigned long addr;
> +
> + for (addr = vma->vm_start; addr < vma->vm_end; addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
I know it's not the common "Linux Kernel way", but 'addr' could be
made to have just 'for' scope here according to C99;
for (unsigned long addr = vma->vm_start; addr < vma->vm_end;
addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
> + spinlock_t *ptl;
> + pgd_t *pgd = pgd_offset(vma->vm_mm, addr);
> + pud_t *pud = pud_offset(pgd, addr);
> + pmd_t *pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
> + pte_t *pte = pte_offset_map_lock(vma->vm_mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
> +
> + if (pte_dirty(*pte) && pte_write(*pte)) {
> + pte_t entry = ptep_clear_flush(vma, addr, pte);
> +
> + entry = pte_wrprotect(entry);
> + set_pte_at(vma->vm_mm, addr, pte, entry);
> + }
> + pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl);
> + }
> +}
> +
> +/*
> * MS_SYNC syncs the entire file - including mappings.
> *
> - * MS_ASYNC does not start I/O (it used to, up to 2.5.67).
> - * Nor does it mark the relevant pages dirty (it used to up to 2.6.17).
> - * Now it doesn't do anything, since dirty pages are properly tracked.
I think keeping some version of the "up to ..." comments makes sense.
It documents that we previously had different behaviour.
> + * MS_ASYNC does not start I/O. Instead, it marks the relevant pages
> + * read-only by calling vma_wrprotect(). This is needed to catch the next
> + * write reference to the mapped region and update the file times
> + * accordingly.
> *
> * The application may now run fsync() to write out the dirty pages and
> * wait on the writeout and check the result. Or the application may run
> @@ -77,16 +104,20 @@ asmlinkage long sys_msync(unsigned long start, size_t len, int flags)
> error = 0;
> start = vma->vm_end;
> file = vma->vm_file;
> - if (file && (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED) && (flags & MS_SYNC)) {
> - get_file(file);
> - up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> - error = do_fsync(file, 0);
> - fput(file);
> - if (error || start >= end)
> - goto out;
> - down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> - vma = find_vma(mm, start);
> - continue;
> + if (file && (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)) {
> + if (flags & MS_ASYNC)
> + vma_wrprotect(vma);
> + if (flags & MS_SYNC) {
"else if" ??
> + get_file(file);
> + up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> + error = do_fsync(file, 0);
> + fput(file);
> + if (error || start >= end)
> + goto out;
> + down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
> + vma = find_vma(mm, start);
> + continue;
> + }
> }
>
> vma = vma->vm_next;
--
Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
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