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Message-ID: <20250617154345.2494405-15-david@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:43:45 +0200
From: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-mm@...ck.org,
nvdimm@...ts.linux.dev,
David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
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David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
Subject: [PATCH RFC 14/14] mm: rename vm_ops->find_special_page() to vm_ops->find_normal_page()
... and hide it behind a kconfig option. There is really no need for
any !xen code to perform this check.
The naming is a bit off: we want to find the "normal" page when a PTE
was marked "special". So it's really not "finding a special" page.
Improve the documentation, and add a comment in the code where XEN ends
up performing the pte_mkspecial() through a hypercall. More details can
be found in commit 923b2919e2c3 ("xen/gntdev: mark userspace PTEs as
special on x86 PV guests").
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
---
drivers/xen/Kconfig | 1 +
drivers/xen/gntdev.c | 5 +++--
include/linux/mm.h | 18 +++++++++++++-----
mm/Kconfig | 2 ++
mm/memory.c | 10 ++++++++--
tools/testing/vma/vma_internal.h | 18 +++++++++++++-----
6 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/xen/Kconfig b/drivers/xen/Kconfig
index 24f485827e039..f9a35ed266ecf 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/xen/Kconfig
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ config XEN_GNTDEV
depends on XEN
default m
select MMU_NOTIFIER
+ select FIND_NORMAL_PAGE
help
Allows userspace processes to use grants.
diff --git a/drivers/xen/gntdev.c b/drivers/xen/gntdev.c
index 61faea1f06630..d1bc0dae2cdf9 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/gntdev.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/gntdev.c
@@ -309,6 +309,7 @@ static int find_grant_ptes(pte_t *pte, unsigned long addr, void *data)
BUG_ON(pgnr >= map->count);
pte_maddr = arbitrary_virt_to_machine(pte).maddr;
+ /* Note: this will perform a pte_mkspecial() through the hypercall. */
gnttab_set_map_op(&map->map_ops[pgnr], pte_maddr, flags,
map->grants[pgnr].ref,
map->grants[pgnr].domid);
@@ -516,7 +517,7 @@ static void gntdev_vma_close(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
gntdev_put_map(priv, map);
}
-static struct page *gntdev_vma_find_special_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+static struct page *gntdev_vma_find_normal_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long addr)
{
struct gntdev_grant_map *map = vma->vm_private_data;
@@ -527,7 +528,7 @@ static struct page *gntdev_vma_find_special_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
static const struct vm_operations_struct gntdev_vmops = {
.open = gntdev_vma_open,
.close = gntdev_vma_close,
- .find_special_page = gntdev_vma_find_special_page,
+ .find_normal_page = gntdev_vma_find_normal_page,
};
/* ------------------------------------------------------------------ */
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 022e8ef2c78ef..b01475f3dca99 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -646,13 +646,21 @@ struct vm_operations_struct {
struct mempolicy *(*get_policy)(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long addr, pgoff_t *ilx);
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_FIND_NORMAL_PAGE
/*
- * Called by vm_normal_page() for special PTEs to find the
- * page for @addr. This is useful if the default behavior
- * (using pte_page()) would not find the correct page.
+ * Called by vm_normal_page() for special PTEs in @vma at @addr. This
+ * allows for returning a "normal" page from vm_normal_page() even
+ * though the PTE indicates that the "struct page" either does not exist
+ * or should not be touched: "special".
+ *
+ * Do not add new users: this really only works when a "normal" page
+ * was mapped, but then the PTE got changed to something weird (+
+ * marked special) that would not make pte_pfn() identify the originally
+ * inserted page.
*/
- struct page *(*find_special_page)(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
- unsigned long addr);
+ struct page *(*find_normal_page)(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ unsigned long addr);
+#endif /* CONFIG_FIND_NORMAL_PAGE */
};
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index c6194d1f9d170..607a3f9672bdb 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -1390,6 +1390,8 @@ config PT_RECLAIM
Note: now only empty user PTE page table pages will be reclaimed.
+config FIND_NORMAL_PAGE
+ def_bool n
source "mm/damon/Kconfig"
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 6c65f51248250..1eba95fcde096 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -619,6 +619,10 @@ static inline struct page *vm_normal_page_pfn(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
* If an architecture does not support pte_special(), this function is less
* trivial and more expensive in some cases.
*
+ * With CONFIG_FIND_NORMAL_PAGE, we might have pte_special() set on PTEs that
+ * actually map "normal" pages: however, that page cannot be looked up through
+ * pte_pfn(), but instead will be looked up through vm_ops->find_normal_page().
+ *
* A raw VM_PFNMAP mapping (ie. one that is not COWed) is always considered a
* special mapping (even if there are underlying and valid "struct pages").
* COWed pages of a VM_PFNMAP are always normal.
@@ -639,8 +643,10 @@ struct page *vm_normal_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
unsigned long pfn = pte_pfn(pte);
if (unlikely(pte_special(pte))) {
- if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->find_special_page)
- return vma->vm_ops->find_special_page(vma, addr);
+#ifdef CONFIG_FIND_NORMAL_PAGE
+ if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->find_normal_page)
+ return vma->vm_ops->find_normal_page(vma, addr);
+#endif /* CONFIG_FIND_NORMAL_PAGE */
if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_PFNMAP | VM_MIXEDMAP))
return NULL;
if (is_zero_pfn(pfn))
diff --git a/tools/testing/vma/vma_internal.h b/tools/testing/vma/vma_internal.h
index 51dd122b8d501..c5bf041036dd7 100644
--- a/tools/testing/vma/vma_internal.h
+++ b/tools/testing/vma/vma_internal.h
@@ -470,13 +470,21 @@ struct vm_operations_struct {
struct mempolicy *(*get_policy)(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long addr, pgoff_t *ilx);
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_FIND_NORMAL_PAGE
/*
- * Called by vm_normal_page() for special PTEs to find the
- * page for @addr. This is useful if the default behavior
- * (using pte_page()) would not find the correct page.
+ * Called by vm_normal_page() for special PTEs in @vma at @addr. This
+ * allows for returning a "normal" page from vm_normal_page() even
+ * though the PTE indicates that the "struct page" either does not exist
+ * or should not be touched: "special".
+ *
+ * Do not add new users: this really only works when a "normal" page
+ * was mapped, but then the PTE got changed to something weird (+
+ * marked special) that would not make pte_pfn() identify the originally
+ * inserted page.
*/
- struct page *(*find_special_page)(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
- unsigned long addr);
+ struct page *(*find_normal_page)(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ unsigned long addr);
+#endif /* CONFIG_FIND_NORMAL_PAGE */
};
struct vm_unmapped_area_info {
--
2.49.0
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