[PATCH 3/4] mm: ZERO_PAGE without PTE_SPECIAL

Hugh Dickins
2009-09-15T20:38:04Z

Reinstate anonymous use of ZERO_PAGE to all architectures, not just
to those which __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL: as suggested by Nick Piggin.

Contrary to how I'd imagined it, there's nothing ugly about this, just
a zero_pfn test built into one or another block of vm_normal_page().

But the MIPS ZERO_PAGE-of-many-colours case demands is_zero_pfn() and
my_zero_pfn() inlines. Reinstate its mremap move_pte() shuffling of
ZERO_PAGEs we did from 2.6.17 to 2.6.19? Not unless someone shouts
for that: it would have to take vm_flags to weed out some cases.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
---
I've not built and tested the actual MIPS case, just hacked up x86
definitions to simulate it; had to drop the static from zero_pfn.

arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h | 14 +++++++++++
mm/memory.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++----------
2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

--- mm2/arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h 2009-09-09 23:13:59.000000000 +0100
+++ mm3/arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h 2009-09-15 17:32:19.000000000 +0100
@@ -76,6 +76,20 @@ extern unsigned long zero_page_mask;
#define ZERO_PAGE(vaddr) \
(virt_to_page((void *)(empty_zero_page + (((unsigned long)(vaddr)) & zero_page_mask))))

+#define is_zero_pfn is_zero_pfn
+static inline int is_zero_pfn(unsigned long pfn)
+{
+ extern unsigned long zero_pfn;
+ unsigned long offset_from_zero_pfn = pfn - zero_pfn;
+ return offset_from_zero_pfn <= (zero_page_mask >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+}
+
+#define my_zero_pfn my_zero_pfn
+static inline unsigned long my_zero_pfn(unsigned long addr)
+{
+ return page_to_pfn(ZERO_PAGE(addr));
+}
+
extern void paging_init(void);

/*
--- mm2/mm/memory.c 2009-09-14 16:34:37.000000000 +0100
+++ mm3/mm/memory.c 2009-09-15 17:32:19.000000000 +0100
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ static int __init disable_randmaps(char
}
__setup("norandmaps", disable_randmaps);

-static unsigned long zero_pfn __read_mostly;
+unsigned long zero_pfn __read_mostly;

/*
* CONFIG_MMU architectures set up ZERO_PAGE in their paging_init()
@@ -455,6 +455,20 @@ static inline int is_cow_mapping(unsigne
return (flags & (VM_SHARED | VM_MAYWRITE)) == VM_MAYWRITE;
}

+#ifndef is_zero_pfn
+static inline int is_zero_pfn(unsigned long pfn)
+{
+ return pfn == zero_pfn;
+}
+#endif
+
+#ifndef my_zero_pfn
+static inline unsigned long my_zero_pfn(unsigned long addr)
+{
+ return zero_pfn;
+}
+#endif
+
/*
* vm_normal_page -- This function gets the "struct page" associated with a pte.
*
@@ -512,7 +526,7 @@ struct page *vm_normal_page(struct vm_ar
goto check_pfn;
if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_PFNMAP | VM_MIXEDMAP))
return NULL;
- if (pfn != zero_pfn)
+ if (!is_zero_pfn(pfn))
print_bad_pte(vma, addr, pte, NULL);
return NULL;
}
@@ -534,6 +548,8 @@ struct page *vm_normal_page(struct vm_ar
}
}

+ if (is_zero_pfn(pfn))
+ return NULL;
check_pfn:
if (unlikely(pfn > highest_memmap_pfn)) {
print_bad_pte(vma, addr, pte, NULL);
@@ -1161,7 +1177,7 @@ struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_
page = vm_normal_page(vma, address, pte);
if (unlikely(!page)) {
if ((flags & FOLL_DUMP) ||
- pte_pfn(pte) != zero_pfn)
+ !is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pte)))
goto bad_page;
page = pte_page(pte);
}
@@ -1444,10 +1460,6 @@ struct page *get_dump_page(unsigned long
if (__get_user_pages(current, current->mm, addr, 1,
FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_DUMP | FOLL_GET, &page, &vma) < 1)
return NULL;
- if (page == ZERO_PAGE(0)) {
- page_cache_release(page);
- return NULL;
- }
flush_cache_page(vma, addr, page_to_pfn(page));
return page;
}
@@ -1630,7 +1642,8 @@ int vm_insert_mixed(struct vm_area_struc
* If we don't have pte special, then we have to use the pfn_valid()
* based VM_MIXEDMAP scheme (see vm_normal_page), and thus we *must*
* refcount the page if pfn_valid is true (hence insert_page rather
- * than insert_pfn).
+ * than insert_pfn). If a zero_pfn were inserted into a VM_MIXEDMAP
+ * without pte special, it would there be refcounted as a normal page.
*/
if (!HAVE_PTE_SPECIAL && pfn_valid(pfn)) {
struct page *page;
@@ -2098,7 +2111,7 @@ gotten:
if (unlikely(anon_vma_prepare(vma)))
goto oom;

- if (pte_pfn(orig_pte) == zero_pfn) {
+ if (is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(orig_pte))) {
new_page = alloc_zeroed_user_highpage_movable(vma, address);
if (!new_page)
goto oom;
@@ -2613,8 +2626,9 @@ static int do_anonymous_page(struct mm_s
spinlock_t *ptl;
pte_t entry;

- if (HAVE_PTE_SPECIAL && !(flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE)) {
- entry = pte_mkspecial(pfn_pte(zero_pfn, vma->vm_page_prot));
+ if (!(flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE)) {
+ entry = pte_mkspecial(pfn_pte(my_zero_pfn(address),
+ vma->vm_page_prot));
ptl = pte_lockptr(mm, pmd);
spin_lock(ptl);
if (!pte_none(*page_table))