linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v3 12/24] x86/mm: Modify ptep_set_wrprotect and pmdp_set_wrprotect for _PAGE_DIRTY

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Message-ID: <1535730524.501.13.camel@intel.com>
Date:   Fri, 31 Aug 2018 08:48:44 -0700
From:   Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>
To:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
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        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 12/24] x86/mm: Modify ptep_set_wrprotect and
 pmdp_set_wrprotect for _PAGE_DIRTY_SW

On Fri, 2018-08-31 at 07:47 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 08/31/2018 07:33 AM, Yu-cheng Yu wrote:
> > 
> > Please use the form:
> > 
> > 	pte_t new_pte, pte = READ_ONCE(*ptep);
> > 	do {
> > 		new_pte = /* ... */;
> > 	} while (!try_cmpxchg(ptep, &pte, new_pte);
> It's probably also worth doing some testing to see if you can detect
> the
> cost of the cmpxchg.  It's definitely more than the old code.
> 
> A loop that does mprotect(PROT_READ) followed by
> mprotect(PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE) should do it.

I created the test,

https://github.com/yyu168/cet-smoke-test/blob/quick/quick/mprotect_ben
ch.c

then realized this won't work.

To trigger a race in ptep_set_wrprotect(), we need to fork from one of
three pthread siblings.

Or do we measure only how much this affects fork?
If there is no racing, the effect should be minimal.

Yu-cheng