linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm: hugepage: mark splitted page dirty when needed

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Date:   Tue,  4 Sep 2018 15:55:10 +0800
From:   Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     peterx@...hat.com, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>, Zi Yan <zi.yan@...rutgers.edu>,
        Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
        Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>,
        Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@...il.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: [PATCH] mm: hugepage: mark splitted page dirty when needed

When splitting a huge page, we should set all small pages as dirty if
the original huge page has the dirty bit set before.  Otherwise we'll
lose the original dirty bit.

CC: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
CC: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
CC: Zi Yan <zi.yan@...rutgers.edu>
CC: Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>
CC: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
CC: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
CC: "Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@...hat.com>
CC: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>
CC: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@...il.com>
CC: linux-mm@...ck.org
CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
---

To the reviewers: I'm new to the mm world so sorry if this patch is
making silly mistakes, however it did solve a problem for me when
testing with a customized Linux tree mostly based on Andrea's userfault
write-protect work.  Without the change, my customized QEMU/tcg tree
will not be able to do correct UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT and then QEMU will
get a SIGBUS when faulting multiple times.  With the change (or of
course disabling THP) then UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT will be able to correctly
resolve the write protections then it runs well.  Any comment would be
welcomed.  TIA.
---
 mm/huge_memory.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index c3bc7e9c9a2a..0754a16923d5 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2176,6 +2176,8 @@ static void __split_huge_pmd_locked(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
 				entry = pte_mkold(entry);
 			if (soft_dirty)
 				entry = pte_mksoft_dirty(entry);
+			if (dirty)
+				entry = pte_mkdirty(entry);
 		}
 		pte = pte_offset_map(&_pmd, addr);
 		BUG_ON(!pte_none(*pte));
-- 
2.17.1