linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 4/7] mm/thp: Carry over dirty bit when thp splits on pmd

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Message-Id: <20220809220100.20033-5-peterx@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue,  9 Aug 2022 18:00:57 -0400
From:   Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     peterx@...hat.com, Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@...el.com>,
        Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
Subject: [PATCH v3 4/7] mm/thp: Carry over dirty bit when thp splits on pmd

Carry over the dirty bit from pmd to pte when a huge pmd splits.  It
shouldn't be a correctness issue since when pmd_dirty() we'll have the page
marked dirty anyway, however having dirty bit carried over helps the next
initial writes of split ptes on some archs like x86.

Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
---
 mm/huge_memory.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 0611b2fd145a..e8e78d1bac5f 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2005,7 +2005,7 @@ static void __split_huge_pmd_locked(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
 	pgtable_t pgtable;
 	pmd_t old_pmd, _pmd;
 	bool young, write, soft_dirty, pmd_migration = false, uffd_wp = false;
-	bool anon_exclusive = false;
+	bool anon_exclusive = false, dirty = false;
 	unsigned long addr;
 	int i;
 
@@ -2098,6 +2098,7 @@ static void __split_huge_pmd_locked(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
 			SetPageDirty(page);
 		write = pmd_write(old_pmd);
 		young = pmd_young(old_pmd);
+		dirty = pmd_dirty(old_pmd);
 		soft_dirty = pmd_soft_dirty(old_pmd);
 		uffd_wp = pmd_uffd_wp(old_pmd);
 
@@ -2161,6 +2162,9 @@ static void __split_huge_pmd_locked(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
 				entry = pte_wrprotect(entry);
 			if (!young)
 				entry = pte_mkold(entry);
+			/* NOTE: this may set soft-dirty too on some archs */
+			if (dirty)
+				entry = pte_mkdirty(entry);
 			if (soft_dirty)
 				entry = pte_mksoft_dirty(entry);
 			if (uffd_wp)
-- 
2.32.0