[PATCH v4 4/7] mm/thp: Carry over dirty bit when thp splits on pmd

Peter Xu
2022-08-11T16:42:23Z

Carry over the dirty bit from pmd to pte when a huge pmd splits. It
shouldn't be a correctness issue since when pmd_dirty() we'll have the page
marked dirty anyway, however having dirty bit carried over helps the next
initial writes of split ptes on some archs like x86.

Reviewed-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
---
mm/huge_memory.c | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 3222b40a0f6d..2f68e034ddec 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2027,7 +2027,7 @@ static void __split_huge_pmd_locked(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
pgtable_t pgtable;
pmd_t old_pmd, _pmd;
bool young, write, soft_dirty, pmd_migration = false, uffd_wp = false;
- bool anon_exclusive = false;
+ bool anon_exclusive = false, dirty = false;
unsigned long addr;
int i;

@@ -2116,8 +2116,10 @@ static void __split_huge_pmd_locked(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
uffd_wp = pmd_swp_uffd_wp(old_pmd);
} else {
page = pmd_page(old_pmd);
- if (pmd_dirty(old_pmd))
+ if (pmd_dirty(old_pmd)) {
+ dirty = true;
SetPageDirty(page);
+ }
write = pmd_write(old_pmd);
young = pmd_young(old_pmd);
soft_dirty = pmd_soft_dirty(old_pmd);
@@ -2183,6 +2185,9 @@ static void __split_huge_pmd_locked(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
entry = pte_wrprotect(entry);
if (!young)
entry = pte_mkold(entry);
+ /* NOTE: this may set soft-dirty too on some archs */
+ if (dirty)
+ entry = pte_mkdirty(entry);
if (soft_dirty)
entry = pte_mksoft_dirty(entry);
if (uffd_wp)
--
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