[PATCH v2 1/5] mm,hugetlb: Change mechanism to detect a COW on private mapping

Oscar Salvador
2025-06-20T12:30:38Z

hugetlb_wp() checks whether the process is trying to COW on a private mapping
in order to know whether the reservation for that address was already consumed
or not.
If it was consumed and we are the ownner of the mapping, the folio will have to
be unmapped from the other processes.

Currently, that check is done by looking up the folio in the pagecache and
compare it to the folio which is mapped in our pagetables.
If it differs, it means we already mapped it privately before, consuming a
reservation on the way.
All we are interested in is whether the mapped folio is anonymous, so we can
simplify and check for that instead.

Also, we transition from a trylock to a folio_lock, since the former was only
needed when hugetlb_fault() had to lock both folios, in order to avoid deadlock.

Fixes: 40549ba8f8e0 ("hugetlb: use new vma_lock for pmd sharing synchronization")
Reported-by: Gavin Guo <gavinguo@igalia.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250513093448.592150-1-gavinguo@igalia.com/
Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Suggested-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
---
mm/hugetlb.c | 70 +++++++++++++---------------------------------------
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 8746ed2fec13..175edafeec67 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -6152,8 +6152,7 @@ static void unmap_ref_private(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
* cannot race with other handlers or page migration.
* Keep the pte_same checks anyway to make transition from the mutex easier.
*/
-static vm_fault_t hugetlb_wp(struct folio *pagecache_folio,
- struct vm_fault *vmf)
+static vm_fault_t hugetlb_wp(struct vm_fault *vmf)
{
struct vm_area_struct *vma = vmf->vma;
struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
@@ -6215,16 +6214,17 @@ static vm_fault_t hugetlb_wp(struct folio *pagecache_folio,
PageAnonExclusive(&old_folio->page), &old_folio->page);

/*
- * If the process that created a MAP_PRIVATE mapping is about to
- * perform a COW due to a shared page count, attempt to satisfy
- * the allocation without using the existing reserves. The pagecache
- * page is used to determine if the reserve at this address was
- * consumed or not. If reserves were used, a partial faulted mapping
- * at the time of fork() could consume its reserves on COW instead
- * of the full address range.
+ * If the process that created a MAP_PRIVATE mapping is about to perform
+ * a COW due to a shared page count, attempt to satisfy the allocation
+ * without using the existing reserves.
+ * In order to determine where this is a COW on a MAP_PRIVATE mapping it
+ * is enough to check whether the old_folio is anonymous. This means that
+ * the reserve for this address was consumed. If reserves were used, a
+ * partial faulted mapping at the fime of fork() could consume its reserves
+ * on COW instead of the full address range.
*/
if (is_vma_resv_set(vma, HPAGE_RESV_OWNER) &&
- old_folio != pagecache_folio)
+ folio_test_anon(old_folio))
cow_from_owner = true;

folio_get(old_folio);
@@ -6603,7 +6603,7 @@ static vm_fault_t hugetlb_no_page(struct address_space *mapping,
hugetlb_count_add(pages_per_huge_page(h), mm);
if ((vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) && !(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)) {
/* Optimization, do the COW without a second fault */
- ret = hugetlb_wp(folio, vmf);
+ ret = hugetlb_wp(vmf);
}

spin_unlock(vmf->ptl);
@@ -6670,11 +6670,9 @@ vm_fault_t hugetlb_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
{
vm_fault_t ret;
u32 hash;
- struct folio *folio = NULL;
- struct folio *pagecache_folio = NULL;
+ struct folio *folio;
struct hstate *h = hstate_vma(vma);
struct address_space *mapping;
- int need_wait_lock = 0;
struct vm_fault vmf = {
.vma = vma,
.address = address & huge_page_mask(h),
@@ -6769,8 +6767,7 @@ vm_fault_t hugetlb_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
* If we are going to COW/unshare the mapping later, we examine the
* pending reservations for this page now. This will ensure that any
* allocations necessary to record that reservation occur outside the
- * spinlock. Also lookup the pagecache page now as it is used to
- * determine if a reservation has been consumed.
+ * spinlock.
*/
if ((flags & (FAULT_FLAG_WRITE|FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE)) &&
!(vma->vm_flags & VM_MAYSHARE) && !huge_pte_write(vmf.orig_pte)) {
@@ -6780,11 +6777,6 @@ vm_fault_t hugetlb_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
}
/* Just decrements count, does not deallocate */
vma_end_reservation(h, vma, vmf.address);
-
- pagecache_folio = filemap_lock_hugetlb_folio(h, mapping,
- vmf.pgoff);
- if (IS_ERR(pagecache_folio))
- pagecache_folio = NULL;
}

vmf.ptl = huge_pte_lock(h, mm, vmf.pte);
@@ -6798,10 +6790,6 @@ vm_fault_t hugetlb_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
(flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) && !huge_pte_write(vmf.orig_pte)) {
if (!userfaultfd_wp_async(vma)) {
spin_unlock(vmf.ptl);
- if (pagecache_folio) {
- folio_unlock(pagecache_folio);
- folio_put(pagecache_folio);
- }
hugetlb_vma_unlock_read(vma);
mutex_unlock(&hugetlb_fault_mutex_table[hash]);
return handle_userfault(&vmf, VM_UFFD_WP);
@@ -6813,23 +6801,14 @@ vm_fault_t hugetlb_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
/* Fallthrough to CoW */
}

- /*
- * hugetlb_wp() requires page locks of pte_page(vmf.orig_pte) and
- * pagecache_folio, so here we need take the former one
- * when folio != pagecache_folio or !pagecache_folio.
- */
+ /* hugetlb_wp() requires page locks of pte_page(vmf.orig_pte) */
folio = page_folio(pte_page(vmf.orig_pte));
- if (folio != pagecache_folio)
- if (!folio_trylock(folio)) {
- need_wait_lock = 1;
- goto out_ptl;
- }
-
+ folio_lock(folio);
folio_get(folio);

if (flags & (FAULT_FLAG_WRITE|FAULT_FLAG_UNSHARE)) {
if (!huge_pte_write(vmf.orig_pte)) {
- ret = hugetlb_wp(pagecache_folio, &vmf);
+ ret = hugetlb_wp(&vmf);
goto out_put_page;
} else if (likely(flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE)) {
vmf.orig_pte = huge_pte_mkdirty(vmf.orig_pte);
@@ -6840,16 +6819,10 @@ vm_fault_t hugetlb_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE))
update_mmu_cache(vma, vmf.address, vmf.pte);
out_put_page:
- if (folio != pagecache_folio)
- folio_unlock(folio);
+ folio_unlock(folio);
folio_put(folio);
out_ptl:
spin_unlock(vmf.ptl);
-
- if (pagecache_folio) {
- folio_unlock(pagecache_folio);
- folio_put(pagecache_folio);
- }
out_mutex:
hugetlb_vma_unlock_read(vma);

@@ -6861,15 +6834,6 @@ vm_fault_t hugetlb_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
vma_end_read(vma);

mutex_unlock(&hugetlb_fault_mutex_table[hash]);
- /*
- * Generally it's safe to hold refcount during waiting page lock. But
- * here we just wait to defer the next page fault to avoid busy loop and
- * the page is not used after unlocked before returning from the current
- * page fault. So we are safe from accessing freed page, even if we wait
- * here without taking refcount.
- */
- if (need_wait_lock)
- folio_wait_locked(folio);
return ret;
}

--
2.50.0