From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from lists.ozlabs.org (lists.ozlabs.org [112.213.38.117]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 67FA6C4332F for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2022 19:14:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from boromir.ozlabs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4N2c4y60QMz3dtw for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2022 06:14:10 +1100 (AEDT) Authentication-Results: lists.ozlabs.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (1024-bit key; unprotected) header.d=redhat.com header.i=@redhat.com header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=mimecast20190719 header.b=hRZfZF9l; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (1024-bit key) header.d=redhat.com header.i=@redhat.com header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=mimecast20190719 header.b=KFFQXIaY; dkim-atps=neutral Authentication-Results: lists.ozlabs.org; spf=pass (sender SPF authorized) smtp.mailfrom=redhat.com (client-ip=170.10.133.124; helo=us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com; envelope-from=david@redhat.com; receiver=) Authentication-Results: lists.ozlabs.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key; unprotected) header.d=redhat.com header.i=@redhat.com header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=mimecast20190719 header.b=hRZfZF9l; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=redhat.com header.i=@redhat.com header.a=rsa-sha256 header.s=mimecast20190719 header.b=KFFQXIaY; dkim-atps=neutral Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [170.10.133.124]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4N2c2x3HYMz3cCX for ; Thu, 3 Nov 2022 06:12:25 +1100 (AEDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1667416342; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=6YPbVJPY8MtPnMTid4uTdi1CU5/wNXrXzoHJaI5QF0k=; b=hRZfZF9l+UYEPwjz4mbmNsq2CrVjJTXrOMSJ3pEdu0K0RpsPlrT4X8J8dXvzPe+hR9oEqb SP0ZXIIMSZWob2cGU6xMr+WpceWi+1kS3739awYLFzL02GuIwrtpmES+goV6gae4IyJiZ1 LBhlF16LvAKD9aVnA4N7C6yawi4hzl8= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1667416343; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=6YPbVJPY8MtPnMTid4uTdi1CU5/wNXrXzoHJaI5QF0k=; b=KFFQXIaYwDlSjIFvvgxo7Jp7wbTncilBY/f3NnKKY9NN8/GaokhB+jLdG/aH5lUk42QRzI ScyKA+M5ei9UtZOTon6O4PW7XtETBAMBKYzGOHIVtp9g/dGn3VKxZUp+ECN4i9ngiGGFcX TD4nEKmhT/KCiWrHKLh4l9J/XmgEuAk= Received: from mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (mx3-rdu2.redhat.com [66.187.233.73]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-542-rpR-vEwkMu-2AEpRHiq6RQ-1; Wed, 02 Nov 2022 15:12:19 -0400 X-MC-Unique: rpR-vEwkMu-2AEpRHiq6RQ-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.9]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx02.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3DD773804060; Wed, 2 Nov 2022 19:12:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from t480s.fritz.box (unknown [10.39.192.243]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E840492CA5; Wed, 2 Nov 2022 19:12:15 +0000 (UTC) From: David Hildenbrand To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v1 1/6] mm/mprotect: allow clean exclusive anon pages to be writable Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2022 20:12:04 +0100 Message-Id: <20221102191209.289237-2-david@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20221102191209.289237-1-david@redhat.com> References: <20221102191209.289237-1-david@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.1 on 10.11.54.9 X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , David Hildenbrand , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Anshuman Khandual , Dave Chinner , Mel Gorman , Peter Xu , linux-mm@kvack.org, Hugh Dickins , Nadav Amit , Nicholas Piggin , Mike Rapoport , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Vlastimil Babka Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" From: Nadav Amit Anonymous pages might have the dirty bit clear, but this should not prevent mprotect from making them writable if they are exclusive. Therefore, skip the test whether the page is dirty in this case. Note that there are already other ways to get a writable PTE mapping an anonymous page that is clean: for example, via MADV_FREE. In an ideal world, we'd have a different indication from the FS whether writenotify is still required. Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit [ return directly; update description ] Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand --- mm/mprotect.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c index 8d770855b591..86a28c0e190f 100644 --- a/mm/mprotect.c +++ b/mm/mprotect.c @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ static inline bool can_change_pte_writable(struct vm_area_struct *vma, VM_BUG_ON(!(vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE) || pte_write(pte)); - if (pte_protnone(pte) || !pte_dirty(pte)) + if (pte_protnone(pte)) return false; /* Do we need write faults for softdirty tracking? */ @@ -65,11 +65,10 @@ static inline bool can_change_pte_writable(struct vm_area_struct *vma, * the PT lock. */ page = vm_normal_page(vma, addr, pte); - if (!page || !PageAnon(page) || !PageAnonExclusive(page)) - return false; + return page && PageAnon(page) && PageAnonExclusive(page); } - return true; + return pte_dirty(pte); } static unsigned long change_pte_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb, -- 2.38.1