linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 23/27] userfaultfd: wp: don't wake up when doing write protect

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Message-Id: <20190426045151.19556-24-peterx@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri, 26 Apr 2019 12:51:47 +0800
From:   Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Maya Gokhale <gokhale2@...l.gov>,
        Jerome Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...tuozzo.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, peterx@...hat.com,
        Martin Cracauer <cracauer@...s.org>, Shaohua Li <shli@...com>,
        Denis Plotnikov <dplotnikov@...tuozzo.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        Marty McFadden <mcfadden8@...l.gov>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
        "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 23/27] userfaultfd: wp: don't wake up when doing write protect

It does not make sense to try to wake up any waiting thread when we're
write-protecting a memory region.  Only wake up when resolving a write
protected page fault.

Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
---
 fs/userfaultfd.c | 13 ++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/userfaultfd.c b/fs/userfaultfd.c
index 81962d62520c..f1f61a0278c2 100644
--- a/fs/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/fs/userfaultfd.c
@@ -1771,6 +1771,7 @@ static int userfaultfd_writeprotect(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx,
 	struct uffdio_writeprotect uffdio_wp;
 	struct uffdio_writeprotect __user *user_uffdio_wp;
 	struct userfaultfd_wake_range range;
+	bool mode_wp, mode_dontwake;
 
 	if (READ_ONCE(ctx->mmap_changing))
 		return -EAGAIN;
@@ -1789,18 +1790,20 @@ static int userfaultfd_writeprotect(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx,
 	if (uffdio_wp.mode & ~(UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT_MODE_DONTWAKE |
 			       UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT_MODE_WP))
 		return -EINVAL;
-	if ((uffdio_wp.mode & UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT_MODE_WP) &&
-	     (uffdio_wp.mode & UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT_MODE_DONTWAKE))
+
+	mode_wp = uffdio_wp.mode & UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT_MODE_WP;
+	mode_dontwake = uffdio_wp.mode & UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT_MODE_DONTWAKE;
+
+	if (mode_wp && mode_dontwake)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
 	ret = mwriteprotect_range(ctx->mm, uffdio_wp.range.start,
-				  uffdio_wp.range.len, uffdio_wp.mode &
-				  UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT_MODE_WP,
+				  uffdio_wp.range.len, mode_wp,
 				  &ctx->mmap_changing);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
-	if (!(uffdio_wp.mode & UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT_MODE_DONTWAKE)) {
+	if (!mode_wp && !mode_dontwake) {
 		range.start = uffdio_wp.range.start;
 		range.len = uffdio_wp.range.len;
 		wake_userfault(ctx, &range);
-- 
2.17.1