linux-kernel - [RFT PATCH 2/2] fb_defio: redo fix for non-dirty ptes

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Date:	Wed, 26 May 2010 00:17:00 +0200
From:	Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@...oo.es>
To:	npiggin@...e.de, jayakumar.lkml@...il.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@...oo.es>
Subject: [RFT PATCH 2/2] fb_defio: redo fix for non-dirty ptes

As pointed by Nick Piggin, ->page_mkwrite provides a way to keep a page
locked until the associated PTE is marked dirty.

Re-implement the fix by using this mechanism.

LKML-Reference: <20100525160149.GE20853@...top>
Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@...oo.es>
---
 drivers/video/fb_defio.c |   12 +++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/fb_defio.c b/drivers/video/fb_defio.c
index 0e4dcdb..a3e8cc7 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fb_defio.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fb_defio.c
@@ -100,6 +100,16 @@ static int fb_deferred_io_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	/* protect against the workqueue changing the page list */
 	mutex_lock(&fbdefio->lock);
 
+	/*
+	 * We want the page to remain locked from ->page_mkwrite until
+	 * the PTE is marked dirty to avoid page_mkclean() being called
+	 * before the PTE is updated, which would leave the page ignored
+	 * by defio.
+	 * Do this by locking the page here and informing the caller
+	 * about it with VM_FAULT_LOCKED.
+	 */
+	lock_page(page);
+
 	/* we loop through the pagelist before adding in order
 	to keep the pagelist sorted */
 	list_for_each_entry(cur, &fbdefio->pagelist, lru) {
@@ -121,7 +131,7 @@ page_already_added:
 
 	/* come back after delay to process the deferred IO */
 	schedule_delayed_work(&info->deferred_work, fbdefio->delay);
-	return 0;
+	return VM_FAULT_LOCKED;
 }
 
 static const struct vm_operations_struct fb_deferred_io_vm_ops = {
-- 
1.7.0.4

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