Re: [PATCH v2 17/26] userfaultfd: wp: support swap and page migration

Peter Xu
2019-02-25T07:49:02Z

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 01:16:19PM -0500, Jerome Glisse wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 10:56:23AM +0800, Peter Xu wrote:
> > For either swap and page migration, we all use the bit 2 of the entry to
> > identify whether this entry is uffd write-protected. It plays a similar
> > role as the existing soft dirty bit in swap entries but only for keeping
> > the uffd-wp tracking for a specific PTE/PMD.
> >
> > Something special here is that when we want to recover the uffd-wp bit
> > from a swap/migration entry to the PTE bit we'll also need to take care
> > of the _PAGE_RW bit and make sure it's cleared, otherwise even with the
> > _PAGE_UFFD_WP bit we can't trap it at all.
> >
> > Note that this patch removed two lines from "userfaultfd: wp: hook
> > userfault handler to write protection fault" where we try to remove the
> > VM_FAULT_WRITE from vmf->flags when uffd-wp is set for the VMA. This
> > patch will still keep the write flag there.
>
> That part is confusing, you probably want to remove that code from
> previous patch or at least address my comment in the previous patch
> review.

(please see below...)

>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
> > ---
> > include/linux/swapops.h | 2 ++
> > mm/huge_memory.c | 3 +++
> > mm/memory.c | 8 ++++++--
> > mm/migrate.c | 7 +++++++
> > mm/mprotect.c | 2 ++
> > mm/rmap.c | 6 ++++++
> > 6 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
>
> [...]
>
> > diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> > index c2035539e9fd..7cee990d67cf 100644
> > --- a/mm/memory.c
> > +++ b/mm/memory.c
> > @@ -736,6 +736,8 @@ copy_one_pte(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, struct mm_struct *src_mm,
> > pte = swp_entry_to_pte(entry);
> > if (pte_swp_soft_dirty(*src_pte))
> > pte = pte_swp_mksoft_dirty(pte);
> > + if (pte_swp_uffd_wp(*src_pte))
> > + pte = pte_swp_mkuffd_wp(pte);
> > set_pte_at(src_mm, addr, src_pte, pte);
> > }
> > } else if (is_device_private_entry(entry)) {
> > @@ -2815,8 +2817,6 @@ vm_fault_t do_swap_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> > inc_mm_counter_fast(vma->vm_mm, MM_ANONPAGES);
> > dec_mm_counter_fast(vma->vm_mm, MM_SWAPENTS);
> > pte = mk_pte(page, vma->vm_page_prot);
> > - if (userfaultfd_wp(vma))
> > - vmf->flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_WRITE;
>
> So this is the confusing part with the previous patch that introduce
> that code. It feels like you should just remove that code entirely
> in the previous patch.

When I wrote the other part I didn't completely understand those two
lines so I kept them to make sure I won't throw away anthing that can
be actually useful. If you also agree that we can drop these lines
I'll simply do that in the next version (and I'll drop the comments
too in the commit message). Andrea, please correct me if I am wrong
on that...

>
> > if ((vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) && reuse_swap_page(page, NULL)) {
> > pte = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(pte), vma);
> > vmf->flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_WRITE;
> > @@ -2826,6 +2826,10 @@ vm_fault_t do_swap_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> > flush_icache_page(vma, page);
> > if (pte_swp_soft_dirty(vmf->orig_pte))
> > pte = pte_mksoft_dirty(pte);
> > + if (pte_swp_uffd_wp(vmf->orig_pte)) {
> > + pte = pte_mkuffd_wp(pte);
> > + pte = pte_wrprotect(pte);
> > + }
> > set_pte_at(vma->vm_mm, vmf->address, vmf->pte, pte);
> > arch_do_swap_page(vma->vm_mm, vma, vmf->address, pte, vmf->orig_pte);
> > vmf->orig_pte = pte;
>
> > diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
> > index d4fd680be3b0..605ccd1f5c64 100644
> > --- a/mm/migrate.c
> > +++ b/mm/migrate.c
> > @@ -242,6 +242,11 @@ static bool remove_migration_pte(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> > if (is_write_migration_entry(entry))
> > pte = maybe_mkwrite(pte, vma);
> >
> > + if (pte_swp_uffd_wp(*pvmw.pte)) {
> > + pte = pte_mkuffd_wp(pte);
> > + pte = pte_wrprotect(pte);
> > + }
>
> If the page was write protected prior to migration then it should never
> end up as a write migration entry and thus the above should be something
> like:
> if (is_write_migration_entry(entry)) {
> pte = maybe_mkwrite(pte, vma);
> } else if (pte_swp_uffd_wp(*pvmw.pte)) {
> pte = pte_mkuffd_wp(pte);
> }

Yeah I agree I can't think of another case that will violate the rule,
so I'm taking your advise assuming it can be cleaner.

Thanks!

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Peter Xu