linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 06/10] userfaultfd/shmem: modify shmem_mfill_atomic_pte to use install

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Date:   Tue, 4 May 2021 21:32:04 -0400
From:   Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
To:     Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@...gle.com>
Cc:     Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Jerome Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@...gle.com>,
        Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Shaohua Li <shli@...com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        Wang Qing <wangqing@...o.com>, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Brian Geffon <bgeffon@...gle.com>,
        "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@...hat.com>,
        Mina Almasry <almasrymina@...gle.com>,
        Oliver Upton <oupton@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 06/10] userfaultfd/shmem: modify
 shmem_mfill_atomic_pte to use install_pte()

Axel,

On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 11:07:33AM -0700, Axel Rasmussen wrote:
> In a previous commit, we added the mfill_atomic_install_pte() helper.
> This helper does the job of setting up PTEs for an existing page, to map
> it into a given VMA. It deals with both the anon and shmem cases, as
> well as the shared and private cases.
> 
> In other words, shmem_mfill_atomic_pte() duplicates a case it already
> handles. So, expose it, and let shmem_mfill_atomic_pte() use it
> directly, to reduce code duplication.
> 
> This requires that we refactor shmem_mfill_atomic_pte() a bit:
> 
> Instead of doing accounting (shmem_recalc_inode() et al) part-way
> through the PTE setup, do it afterward. This frees up
> mfill_atomic_install_pte() from having to care about this accounting,
> and means we don't need to e.g. shmem_uncharge() in the error path.
> 
> A side effect is this switches shmem_mfill_atomic_pte() to use
> lru_cache_add_inactive_or_unevictable() instead of just lru_cache_add().
> This wrapper does some extra accounting in an exceptional case, if
> appropriate, so it's actually the more correct thing to use.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@...gle.com>

(The moving of "ret = -ENOMEM" seems unnecessary, but not a big deal I think)

Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>

Thanks,

-- 
Peter Xu