[patch 047/166] userfaultfd: wp: don't wake up when doing write protect

Andrew Morton
2020-04-07T03:06:24Z

From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Subject: userfaultfd: wp: don't wake up when doing write protect

It does not make sense to try to wake up any waiting thread when we're
write-protecting a memory region. Only wake up when resolving a write
protected page fault.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200220163112.11409-16-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Bobby Powers <bobbypowers@gmail.com>
Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Denis Plotnikov <dplotnikov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
Cc: Marty McFadden <mcfadden8@llnl.gov>
Cc: Maya Gokhale <gokhale2@llnl.gov>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

fs/userfaultfd.c | 13 ++++++++-----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/userfaultfd.c~userfaultfd-wp-dont-wake-up-when-doing-write-protect
+++ a/fs/userfaultfd.c
@@ -1812,6 +1812,7 @@ static int userfaultfd_writeprotect(stru
struct uffdio_writeprotect uffdio_wp;
struct uffdio_writeprotect __user *user_uffdio_wp;
struct userfaultfd_wake_range range;
+ bool mode_wp, mode_dontwake;

if (READ_ONCE(ctx->mmap_changing))
return -EAGAIN;
@@ -1830,18 +1831,20 @@ static int userfaultfd_writeprotect(stru
if (uffdio_wp.mode & ~(UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT_MODE_DONTWAKE |
UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT_MODE_WP))
return -EINVAL;
- if ((uffdio_wp.mode & UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT_MODE_WP) &&
- (uffdio_wp.mode & UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT_MODE_DONTWAKE))
+
+ mode_wp = uffdio_wp.mode & UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT_MODE_WP;
+ mode_dontwake = uffdio_wp.mode & UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT_MODE_DONTWAKE;
+
+ if (mode_wp && mode_dontwake)
return -EINVAL;

ret = mwriteprotect_range(ctx->mm, uffdio_wp.range.start,
- uffdio_wp.range.len, uffdio_wp.mode &
- UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT_MODE_WP,
+ uffdio_wp.range.len, mode_wp,
&ctx->mmap_changing);
if (ret)
return ret;

- if (!(uffdio_wp.mode & UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT_MODE_DONTWAKE)) {
+ if (!mode_wp && !mode_dontwake) {
range.start = uffdio_wp.range.start;
range.len = uffdio_wp.range.len;
wake_userfault(ctx, &range);
_