From: Kiryl Shutsemau <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org,
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Subject: [RFC PATCH 1/5] mm: let folio_mkclean() report which pages had dirty PTEs
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2026 19:29:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260903182943.662461-2-kirill@shutemov.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260903182943.662461-1-kirill@shutemov.name>
From: "Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" <kas@kernel.org>
folio_mkclean() walks every mapping of a folio and clears the dirty and
write bits of each page table entry. It has the per-entry dirty bit in
hand while doing that, but only counts how many entries it cleaned.
For a large folio those bits are the only record of which parts of the
folio were written through a mapping. Everything downstream has to
assume the whole folio changed because that information is dropped here.
Add folio_mkclean_dirtymap(), which takes a bitmap and sets a bit for every
page of the folio whose entry was dirty. folio_mkclean() becomes a
wrapper that passes no bitmap, so there is no change in behaviour yet.
A PMD entry has one dirty bit for the whole folio, so a PMD-mapped folio
reports all of its pages as dirty. That is the best that can be done:
the hardware does not track anything finer for a PMD.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@kernel.org>
---
include/linux/rmap.h | 7 ++++++
mm/rmap.c | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
2 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/rmap.h b/include/linux/rmap.h
index 8dc0871e5f00..6fc0a6020252 100644
--- a/include/linux/rmap.h
+++ b/include/linux/rmap.h
@@ -927,6 +927,7 @@ unsigned long page_address_in_vma(const struct folio *folio,
* returns the number of cleaned PTEs.
*/
int folio_mkclean(struct folio *);
+int folio_mkclean_dirtymap(struct folio *folio, unsigned long *dirty_map);
int mapping_wrprotect_range(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t pgoff,
unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages);
@@ -990,6 +991,12 @@ static inline int folio_mkclean(struct folio *folio)
{
return 0;
}
+
+static inline int folio_mkclean_dirtymap(struct folio *folio,
+ unsigned long *dirty_map)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
#endif /* CONFIG_MMU */
#endif /* _LINUX_RMAP_H */
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index 1f72d279ba68..aaf45ac79fa8 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -1100,12 +1100,18 @@ int folio_referenced(struct folio *folio, int is_locked,
return rwc.contended ? -1 : pra.referenced;
}
-static int page_vma_mkclean_one(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw)
+struct mkclean_state {
+ unsigned long *dirty_map;
+ int cleaned;
+};
+
+static int page_vma_mkclean_one(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw,
+ unsigned long *dirty_map)
{
- int cleaned = 0;
struct vm_area_struct *vma = pvmw->vma;
- struct mmu_notifier_range range;
unsigned long address = pvmw->address;
+ struct mmu_notifier_range range;
+ int cleaned = 0;
/*
* We have to assume the worse case ie pmd for invalidation. Note that
@@ -1134,6 +1140,15 @@ static int page_vma_mkclean_one(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw)
if (!pte_dirty(entry) && !pte_write(entry))
continue;
+ if (dirty_map && pte_dirty(entry)) {
+ pgoff_t idx = linear_page_index(vma, address) -
+ pvmw->pgoff;
+
+ /* The walk only visits pages of this folio */
+ VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(idx >= pvmw->nr_pages);
+ __set_bit(idx, dirty_map);
+ }
+
flush_cache_page(vma, address, pte_pfn(entry));
entry = ptep_clear_flush(vma, address, pte);
entry = pte_wrprotect(entry);
@@ -1155,6 +1170,9 @@ static int page_vma_mkclean_one(struct page_vma_mapped_walk *pvmw)
if (!pmd_dirty(entry) && !pmd_write(entry))
continue;
+ if (dirty_map && pmd_dirty(entry))
+ bitmap_set(dirty_map, 0, pvmw->nr_pages);
+
flush_cache_range(vma, address,
address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE);
entry = pmdp_invalidate(vma, address, pmd);
@@ -1181,9 +1199,9 @@ static bool page_mkclean_one(struct folio *folio, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long address, void *arg)
{
DEFINE_FOLIO_VMA_WALK(pvmw, folio, vma, address, PVMW_SYNC);
- int *cleaned = arg;
+ struct mkclean_state *state = arg;
- *cleaned += page_vma_mkclean_one(&pvmw);
+ state->cleaned += page_vma_mkclean_one(&pvmw, state->dirty_map);
return true;
}
@@ -1196,12 +1214,23 @@ static bool invalid_mkclean_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, void *arg)
return true;
}
-int folio_mkclean(struct folio *folio)
+/**
+ * folio_mkclean_dirtymap - Write-protect a folio and report what was dirty.
+ * @folio: The folio to clean.
+ * @dirty_map: Bitmap of at least folio_nr_pages(@folio) bits, or NULL.
+ *
+ * Write-protects and cleans every mapping of @folio. With @dirty_map, sets a
+ * bit for each page whose entry was dirty; a PMD-mapped folio has one dirty
+ * bit for all of it, so every page is reported.
+ *
+ * Return: the number of page table entries cleaned.
+ */
+int folio_mkclean_dirtymap(struct folio *folio, unsigned long *dirty_map)
{
- int cleaned = 0;
+ struct mkclean_state state = { .dirty_map = dirty_map };
struct address_space *mapping;
struct rmap_walk_control rwc = {
- .arg = (void *)&cleaned,
+ .arg = (void *)&state,
.rmap_one = page_mkclean_one,
.invalid_vma = invalid_mkclean_vma,
};
@@ -1217,7 +1246,12 @@ int folio_mkclean(struct folio *folio)
rmap_walk(folio, &rwc);
- return cleaned;
+ return state.cleaned;
+}
+
+int folio_mkclean(struct folio *folio)
+{
+ return folio_mkclean_dirtymap(folio, NULL);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(folio_mkclean);
@@ -1241,7 +1275,7 @@ static bool mapping_wrprotect_range_one(struct folio *folio,
.flags = PVMW_SYNC,
};
- state->cleaned += page_vma_mkclean_one(&pvmw);
+ state->cleaned += page_vma_mkclean_one(&pvmw, NULL);
return true;
}
@@ -1324,7 +1358,7 @@ int pfn_mkclean_range(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages, pgoff_t pgoff,
pvmw.address = vma_address(vma, pgoff, nr_pages);
VM_BUG_ON_VMA(pvmw.address == -EFAULT, vma);
- return page_vma_mkclean_one(&pvmw);
+ return page_vma_mkclean_one(&pvmw, NULL);
}
static void __folio_mod_stat(struct folio *folio, int nr, int nr_pmdmapped)
--
2.54.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-03 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-03 18:29 [RFC PATCH 0/5] mm: sub-folio dirty tracking for PTE-mapped mmap writes Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-09-03 18:29 ` Kiryl Shutsemau [this message]
2026-09-09 10:12 ` [RFC PATCH 1/5] mm: let folio_mkclean() report which pages had dirty PTEs Usama Arif
2026-09-10 13:36 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-09-03 18:29 ` [RFC PATCH 2/5] mm: add a_ops->dirty_folio_range() and use the mkclean dirty harvest Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-09-09 10:51 ` Usama Arif
2026-09-10 14:54 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-09-03 18:29 ` [RFC PATCH 3/5] mm: keep the mmap dirty range down to the faulting page Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-09-03 18:29 ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] iomap: narrow page_mkwrite() dirtying " Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-09-03 18:29 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] xfs: track mmap dirty state per block Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-09-03 19:55 ` [RFC PATCH 0/5] mm: sub-folio dirty tracking for PTE-mapped mmap writes Pedro Falcato
2026-09-03 21:18 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-09-07 10:15 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-09-09 10:02 ` Usama Arif
2026-09-09 10:15 ` Kiryl Shutsemau
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