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From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
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Subject: [PATCH v2 9/9] mm: rename vm_ops->find_special_page() to vm_ops->find_normal_page()
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 13:52:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250717115212.1825089-10-david@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250717115212.1825089-1-david@redhat.com>

... 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@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
---
 drivers/xen/Kconfig              |  1 +
 drivers/xen/gntdev.c             |  5 +++--
 include/linux/mm.h               | 18 +++++++++++++-----
 mm/Kconfig                       |  2 ++
 mm/memory.c                      | 12 ++++++++++--
 tools/testing/vma/vma_internal.h | 18 +++++++++++++-----
 6 files changed, 42 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 0eb991262fbbf..036800514aa90 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -648,13 +648,21 @@ 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 0287e8d94aea7..82c281b4f6937 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -1397,6 +1397,8 @@ 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 00a0d7ae3ba4a..52804ca343261 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -613,6 +613,12 @@ static void print_bad_page_map(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
  * trivial. Secondly, an architecture may not have a spare page table
  * entry bit, which requires a more complicated scheme, described below.
  *
+ * With CONFIG_FIND_NORMAL_PAGE, we might have the "special" bit set on
+ * page table entries that actually map "normal" pages: however, that page
+ * cannot be looked up through the PFN stored in the page table entry, but
+ * instead will be looked up through vm_ops->find_normal_page(). So far, this
+ * only applies to PTEs.
+ *
  * 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.
@@ -710,8 +716,10 @@ 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 0fe52fd6782bf..8646af15a5fc0 100644
--- a/tools/testing/vma/vma_internal.h
+++ b/tools/testing/vma/vma_internal.h
@@ -467,13 +467,21 @@ 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 {
-- 
2.50.1



  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-07-17 11:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-07-17 11:52 [PATCH v2 0/9] mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements David Hildenbrand
2025-07-17 11:52 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] mm/huge_memory: move more common code into insert_pmd() David Hildenbrand
2025-07-17 15:34   ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-25  2:47   ` Wei Yang
2025-07-17 11:52 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] mm/huge_memory: move more common code into insert_pud() David Hildenbrand
2025-07-17 15:42   ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-25  2:56   ` Wei Yang
2025-07-17 11:52 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] mm/huge_memory: support huge zero folio in vmf_insert_folio_pmd() David Hildenbrand
2025-07-17 15:47   ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-25  8:07   ` Wei Yang
2025-07-17 11:52 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] fs/dax: use vmf_insert_folio_pmd() to insert the huge zero folio David Hildenbrand
2025-07-17 18:09   ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-17 11:52 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] mm/huge_memory: mark PMD mappings of the huge zero folio special David Hildenbrand
2025-07-17 18:29   ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-17 20:31     ` David Hildenbrand
2025-07-18 10:41       ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-18 10:54         ` David Hildenbrand
2025-07-18 13:06           ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-28  8:49   ` Wei Yang
2025-07-17 11:52 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] mm/memory: convert print_bad_pte() to print_bad_page_map() David Hildenbrand
2025-07-17 19:17   ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-17 20:03     ` David Hildenbrand
2025-07-18 10:15       ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-18 11:04         ` David Hildenbrand
2025-07-18 12:55           ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-17 22:06   ` Demi Marie Obenour
2025-07-18  7:44     ` David Hildenbrand
2025-07-18  7:59       ` Demi Marie Obenour
2025-07-18  8:26         ` David Hildenbrand
2025-07-17 11:52 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] mm/memory: factor out common code from vm_normal_page_*() David Hildenbrand
2025-07-17 19:51   ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-17 19:55     ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-17 20:03       ` David Hildenbrand
2025-07-18 12:43         ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-30 12:54           ` David Hildenbrand
2025-07-30 13:24             ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-17 20:12     ` David Hildenbrand
2025-07-18 12:35       ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-17 11:52 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] mm: introduce and use vm_normal_page_pud() David Hildenbrand
2025-07-17 20:03   ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-17 20:14     ` David Hildenbrand
2025-07-18 10:47       ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-18 11:06         ` David Hildenbrand
2025-07-18 12:44           ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-29  7:52   ` Wei Yang
2025-07-17 11:52 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2025-07-17 20:07   ` [PATCH v2 9/9] mm: rename vm_ops->find_special_page() to vm_ops->find_normal_page() Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-07-29  7:53   ` Wei Yang

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