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Message-ID: <20180423063157.GB114098@rodete-desktop-imager.corp.google.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 15:31:57 +0900
From: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
To: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 06/25] mm: make pte_unmap_same compatible with SPF
On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 04:33:12PM +0200, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> pte_unmap_same() is making the assumption that the page table are still
> around because the mmap_sem is held.
> This is no more the case when running a speculative page fault and
> additional check must be made to ensure that the final page table are still
> there.
>
> This is now done by calling pte_spinlock() to check for the VMA's
> consistency while locking for the page tables.
>
> This is requiring passing a vm_fault structure to pte_unmap_same() which is
> containing all the needed parameters.
>
> As pte_spinlock() may fail in the case of a speculative page fault, if the
> VMA has been touched in our back, pte_unmap_same() should now return 3
> cases :
> 1. pte are the same (0)
> 2. pte are different (VM_FAULT_PTNOTSAME)
> 3. a VMA's changes has been detected (VM_FAULT_RETRY)
>
> The case 2 is handled by the introduction of a new VM_FAULT flag named
> VM_FAULT_PTNOTSAME which is then trapped in cow_user_page().
I don't see such logic in this patch.
Maybe you introduces it later? If so, please comment on it.
Or just return 0 in case of 2 without introducing VM_FAULT_PTNOTSAME.
> If VM_FAULT_RETRY is returned, it is passed up to the callers to retry the
> page fault while holding the mmap_sem.
>
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> include/linux/mm.h | 1 +
> mm/memory.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index 4d1aff80669c..714da99d77a3 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -1208,6 +1208,7 @@ static inline void clear_page_pfmemalloc(struct page *page)
> #define VM_FAULT_NEEDDSYNC 0x2000 /* ->fault did not modify page tables
> * and needs fsync() to complete (for
> * synchronous page faults in DAX) */
> +#define VM_FAULT_PTNOTSAME 0x4000 /* Page table entries have changed */
>
> #define VM_FAULT_ERROR (VM_FAULT_OOM | VM_FAULT_SIGBUS | VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV | \
> VM_FAULT_HWPOISON | VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE | \
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index 0b9a51f80e0e..f86efcb8e268 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -2309,21 +2309,29 @@ static inline bool pte_map_lock(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> * parts, do_swap_page must check under lock before unmapping the pte and
> * proceeding (but do_wp_page is only called after already making such a check;
> * and do_anonymous_page can safely check later on).
> + *
> + * pte_unmap_same() returns:
> + * 0 if the PTE are the same
> + * VM_FAULT_PTNOTSAME if the PTE are different
> + * VM_FAULT_RETRY if the VMA has changed in our back during
> + * a speculative page fault handling.
> */
> -static inline int pte_unmap_same(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd,
> - pte_t *page_table, pte_t orig_pte)
> +static inline int pte_unmap_same(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> {
> - int same = 1;
> + int ret = 0;
> +
> #if defined(CONFIG_SMP) || defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT)
> if (sizeof(pte_t) > sizeof(unsigned long)) {
> - spinlock_t *ptl = pte_lockptr(mm, pmd);
> - spin_lock(ptl);
> - same = pte_same(*page_table, orig_pte);
> - spin_unlock(ptl);
> + if (pte_spinlock(vmf)) {
> + if (!pte_same(*vmf->pte, vmf->orig_pte))
> + ret = VM_FAULT_PTNOTSAME;
> + spin_unlock(vmf->ptl);
> + } else
> + ret = VM_FAULT_RETRY;
> }
> #endif
> - pte_unmap(page_table);
> - return same;
> + pte_unmap(vmf->pte);
> + return ret;
> }
>
> static inline void cow_user_page(struct page *dst, struct page *src, unsigned long va, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> @@ -2912,10 +2920,19 @@ int do_swap_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> pte_t pte;
> int locked;
> int exclusive = 0;
> - int ret = 0;
> + int ret;
>
> - if (!pte_unmap_same(vma->vm_mm, vmf->pmd, vmf->pte, vmf->orig_pte))
> + ret = pte_unmap_same(vmf);
> + if (ret) {
> + /*
> + * If pte != orig_pte, this means another thread did the
> + * swap operation in our back.
> + * So nothing else to do.
> + */
> + if (ret == VM_FAULT_PTNOTSAME)
> + ret = 0;
> goto out;
> + }
>
> entry = pte_to_swp_entry(vmf->orig_pte);
> if (unlikely(non_swap_entry(entry))) {
> --
> 2.7.4
>
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