linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/3] mlock: avoid dirtying pages and triggering writeback

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Date:	Wed, 17 Nov 2010 04:23:58 -0800
From:	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>
To:	linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Kosaki Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@...gle.com>,
	Michael Rubin <mrubin@...gle.com>,
	Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] mlock: avoid dirtying pages and triggering writeback

When faulting in pages for mlock(), we want to break COW for anonymous
or file pages within VM_WRITABLE, non-VM_SHARED vmas. However, there is
no need to write-fault into VM_SHARED vmas since shared file pages can
be mlocked first and dirtied later, when/if they actually get written to.
Skipping the write fault is desirable, as we don't want to unnecessarily
cause these pages to be dirtied and queued for writeback.

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>
---
 mm/memory.c |    7 ++++++-
 mm/mlock.c  |    7 ++++++-
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index d4c0c2e..7f45085 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3291,7 +3291,12 @@ int make_pages_present(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end)
 	vma = find_vma(current->mm, addr);
 	if (!vma)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	write = (vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE) != 0;
+	/*
+	 * We want to touch writable mappings with a write fault in order
+	 * to break COW, except for shared mappings because these don't COW
+	 * and we would not want to dirty them for nothing.
+	 */
+	write = (vma->vm_flags & (VM_WRITE | VM_SHARED)) == VM_WRITE;
 	BUG_ON(addr >= end);
 	BUG_ON(end > vma->vm_end);
 	len = DIV_ROUND_UP(end, PAGE_SIZE) - addr/PAGE_SIZE;
diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c
index b70919c..4f31864 100644
--- a/mm/mlock.c
+++ b/mm/mlock.c
@@ -171,7 +171,12 @@ static long __mlock_vma_pages_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	VM_BUG_ON(!rwsem_is_locked(&mm->mmap_sem));
 
 	gup_flags = FOLL_TOUCH | FOLL_GET;
-	if (vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE)
+	/*
+	 * We want to touch writable mappings with a write fault in order
+	 * to break COW, except for shared mappings because these don't COW
+	 * and we would not want to dirty them for nothing.
+	 */
+	if ((vma->vm_flags & (VM_WRITE | VM_SHARED)) == VM_WRITE)
 		gup_flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
 
 	/* We don't try to access the guard page of a stack vma */
-- 
1.7.3.1

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