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charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 18.02.25 17:21, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 05:17:20PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote: >> On 18.02.25 17:12, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 05:01:16PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote: >>>> On 13.02.25 19:17, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote: >>>>> There is no reason to disallow guard regions in file-backed mappings - >>>>> readahead and fault-around both function correctly in the presence of PTE >>>>> markers, equally other operations relating to memory-mapped files function >>>>> correctly. >>>>> >>>>> Additionally, read-only mappings if introducing guard-regions, only >>>>> restrict the mapping further, which means there is no violation of any >>>>> access rights by permitting this to be so. >>>>> >>>>> Removing this restriction allows for read-only mapped files (such as >>>>> executable files) correctly which would otherwise not be permitted. >>>>> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes >>>>> --- >>>>> mm/madvise.c | 8 +------- >>>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-) >>>>> >>>>> diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c >>>>> index 6ecead476a80..e01e93e179a8 100644 >>>>> --- a/mm/madvise.c >>>>> +++ b/mm/madvise.c >>>>> @@ -1051,13 +1051,7 @@ static bool is_valid_guard_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, bool allow_locked) >>>>> if (!allow_locked) >>>>> disallowed |= VM_LOCKED; >>>>> - if (!vma_is_anonymous(vma)) >>>>> - return false; >>>>> - >>>>> - if ((vma->vm_flags & (VM_MAYWRITE | disallowed)) != VM_MAYWRITE) >>>>> - return false; >>>>> - >>>>> - return true; >>>>> + return !(vma->vm_flags & disallowed); >>>>> } >>>>> static bool is_guard_pte_marker(pte_t ptent) >>>> >>>> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>>> >>>> I assume these markers cannot completely prevent us from allocating >>>> pages/folios for these underlying file/pageache ranges of these markers in >>>> case of shmem during page faults, right? >>> >>> If the markers are in place, then page faulting will result in a >>> segfault. If we faulted in a shmem page then installed markers (which would >>> zap the range), then the page cache will be populated, but obviously >>> subject to standard reclaim. >> >> Well, yes, (a) if there is swap and (b), if the noswap option was not >> specified for tmpfs. >> > > Right, yeah if you don't have it set up such that dropping a reference to the > folio doesn't drop the page altogether. > > I think this matches expectation though in that you'd get the same results from > an MADV_DONTNEED followed by faulting the page again. It might make sense to document that: installing a guard behaves just like MADV_DONTNEED; in case of a file, that means that the pagecache is left untouched. > >> Okay, so installing a guard entry might require punshing a hole to get rid >> of any already-existing memory. But readahead (below) might mess it up. > > Only if you are so concerned about avoiding the page cache being populated there > that you want to do this :) > > Readahead I think will not readahead into a holepunched region as the hole > punching extends to the fs layer _I believe_ I have not checked the code for > this, but I believe it actually changes the underlying file too right to say > 'this part of the file is empty'? Well, we are talking about shmem here ... not your ordinary fs backed by an actual file :) -- Cheers, David / dhildenb