From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
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Subject: [PATCH v3 11/11] mm: rename vm_ops->find_special_page() to vm_ops->find_normal_page()
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2025 13:26:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250811112631.759341-12-david@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250811112631.759341-1-david@redhat.com>
... and hide it behind a kconfig option. There is really no need for
any !xen code to perform this check.
The naming is a bit off: we want to find the "normal" page when a PTE
was marked "special". So it's really not "finding a special" page.
Improve the documentation, and add a comment in the code where XEN ends
up performing the pte_mkspecial() through a hypercall. More details can
be found in commit 923b2919e2c3 ("xen/gntdev: mark userspace PTEs as
special on x86 PV guests").
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
---
drivers/xen/Kconfig | 1 +
drivers/xen/gntdev.c | 5 +++--
include/linux/mm.h | 18 +++++++++++++-----
mm/Kconfig | 2 ++
mm/memory.c | 12 ++++++++++--
tools/testing/vma/vma_internal.h | 18 +++++++++++++-----
6 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/xen/Kconfig b/drivers/xen/Kconfig
index 24f485827e039..f9a35ed266ecf 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/xen/Kconfig
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ config XEN_GNTDEV
depends on XEN
default m
select MMU_NOTIFIER
+ select FIND_NORMAL_PAGE
help
Allows userspace processes to use grants.
diff --git a/drivers/xen/gntdev.c b/drivers/xen/gntdev.c
index 1f21607656182..26f13b37c78e6 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/gntdev.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/gntdev.c
@@ -321,6 +321,7 @@ static int find_grant_ptes(pte_t *pte, unsigned long addr, void *data)
BUG_ON(pgnr >= map->count);
pte_maddr = arbitrary_virt_to_machine(pte).maddr;
+ /* Note: this will perform a pte_mkspecial() through the hypercall. */
gnttab_set_map_op(&map->map_ops[pgnr], pte_maddr, flags,
map->grants[pgnr].ref,
map->grants[pgnr].domid);
@@ -528,7 +529,7 @@ static void gntdev_vma_close(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
gntdev_put_map(priv, map);
}
-static struct page *gntdev_vma_find_special_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+static struct page *gntdev_vma_find_normal_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long addr)
{
struct gntdev_grant_map *map = vma->vm_private_data;
@@ -539,7 +540,7 @@ static struct page *gntdev_vma_find_special_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
static const struct vm_operations_struct gntdev_vmops = {
.open = gntdev_vma_open,
.close = gntdev_vma_close,
- .find_special_page = gntdev_vma_find_special_page,
+ .find_normal_page = gntdev_vma_find_normal_page,
};
/* ------------------------------------------------------------------ */
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 8ca7d2fa71343..3868ca1a25f9c 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -657,13 +657,21 @@ struct vm_operations_struct {
struct mempolicy *(*get_policy)(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long addr, pgoff_t *ilx);
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_FIND_NORMAL_PAGE
/*
- * Called by vm_normal_page() for special PTEs to find the
- * page for @addr. This is useful if the default behavior
- * (using pte_page()) would not find the correct page.
+ * Called by vm_normal_page() for special PTEs in @vma at @addr. This
+ * allows for returning a "normal" page from vm_normal_page() even
+ * though the PTE indicates that the "struct page" either does not exist
+ * or should not be touched: "special".
+ *
+ * Do not add new users: this really only works when a "normal" page
+ * was mapped, but then the PTE got changed to something weird (+
+ * marked special) that would not make pte_pfn() identify the originally
+ * inserted page.
*/
- struct page *(*find_special_page)(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
- unsigned long addr);
+ struct page *(*find_normal_page)(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ unsigned long addr);
+#endif /* CONFIG_FIND_NORMAL_PAGE */
};
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index e443fe8cd6cf2..59a04d0b2e272 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -1381,6 +1381,8 @@ config PT_RECLAIM
Note: now only empty user PTE page table pages will be reclaimed.
+config FIND_NORMAL_PAGE
+ def_bool n
source "mm/damon/Kconfig"
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 6f806bf3cc994..002c28795d8b7 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -639,6 +639,12 @@ static void print_bad_page_map(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
* trivial. Secondly, an architecture may not have a spare page table
* entry bit, which requires a more complicated scheme, described below.
*
+ * With CONFIG_FIND_NORMAL_PAGE, we might have the "special" bit set on
+ * page table entries that actually map "normal" pages: however, that page
+ * cannot be looked up through the PFN stored in the page table entry, but
+ * instead will be looked up through vm_ops->find_normal_page(). So far, this
+ * only applies to PTEs.
+ *
* A raw VM_PFNMAP mapping (ie. one that is not COWed) is always considered a
* special mapping (even if there are underlying and valid "struct pages").
* COWed pages of a VM_PFNMAP are always normal.
@@ -679,8 +685,10 @@ static inline struct page *__vm_normal_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
{
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL)) {
if (unlikely(special)) {
- if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->find_special_page)
- return vma->vm_ops->find_special_page(vma, addr);
+#ifdef CONFIG_FIND_NORMAL_PAGE
+ if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->find_normal_page)
+ return vma->vm_ops->find_normal_page(vma, addr);
+#endif /* CONFIG_FIND_NORMAL_PAGE */
if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_PFNMAP | VM_MIXEDMAP))
return NULL;
if (is_zero_pfn(pfn) || is_huge_zero_pfn(pfn))
diff --git a/tools/testing/vma/vma_internal.h b/tools/testing/vma/vma_internal.h
index 3639aa8dd2b06..cb1c2a8afe265 100644
--- a/tools/testing/vma/vma_internal.h
+++ b/tools/testing/vma/vma_internal.h
@@ -467,13 +467,21 @@ struct vm_operations_struct {
struct mempolicy *(*get_policy)(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long addr, pgoff_t *ilx);
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_FIND_NORMAL_PAGE
/*
- * Called by vm_normal_page() for special PTEs to find the
- * page for @addr. This is useful if the default behavior
- * (using pte_page()) would not find the correct page.
+ * Called by vm_normal_page() for special PTEs in @vma at @addr. This
+ * allows for returning a "normal" page from vm_normal_page() even
+ * though the PTE indicates that the "struct page" either does not exist
+ * or should not be touched: "special".
+ *
+ * Do not add new users: this really only works when a "normal" page
+ * was mapped, but then the PTE got changed to something weird (+
+ * marked special) that would not make pte_pfn() identify the originally
+ * inserted page.
*/
- struct page *(*find_special_page)(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
- unsigned long addr);
+ struct page *(*find_normal_page)(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ unsigned long addr);
+#endif /* CONFIG_FIND_NORMAL_PAGE */
};
struct vm_unmapped_area_info {
--
2.50.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-11 11:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-11 11:26 [PATCH v3 00/11] mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements David Hildenbrand
2025-08-11 11:26 ` [PATCH v3 01/11] mm/huge_memory: move more common code into insert_pmd() David Hildenbrand
2025-08-12 4:52 ` Lance Yang
2025-08-11 11:26 ` [PATCH v3 02/11] mm/huge_memory: move more common code into insert_pud() David Hildenbrand
2025-08-11 11:26 ` [PATCH v3 03/11] mm/huge_memory: support huge zero folio in vmf_insert_folio_pmd() David Hildenbrand
2025-08-11 11:26 ` [PATCH v3 04/11] fs/dax: use vmf_insert_folio_pmd() to insert the huge zero folio David Hildenbrand
2025-08-11 11:26 ` [PATCH v3 05/11] mm/huge_memory: mark PMD mappings of the huge zero folio special David Hildenbrand
2025-08-12 18:14 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-11 11:26 ` [PATCH v3 06/11] powerpc/ptdump: rename "struct pgtable_level" to "struct ptdump_pglevel" David Hildenbrand
2025-08-12 18:23 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-12 18:39 ` Christophe Leroy
2025-08-12 18:54 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-26 16:28 ` Ritesh Harjani
2025-08-27 13:57 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-08-11 11:26 ` [PATCH v3 07/11] mm/rmap: convert "enum rmap_level" to "enum pgtable_level" David Hildenbrand
2025-08-12 18:33 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-11 11:26 ` [PATCH v3 08/11] mm/memory: convert print_bad_pte() to print_bad_page_map() David Hildenbrand
2025-08-12 18:48 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-25 12:31 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-08-26 5:25 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-26 6:17 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-08-11 11:26 ` [PATCH v3 09/11] mm/memory: factor out common code from vm_normal_page_*() David Hildenbrand
2025-08-12 19:06 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-11 11:26 ` [PATCH v3 10/11] mm: introduce and use vm_normal_page_pud() David Hildenbrand
2025-08-12 19:38 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-08-11 11:26 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2025-08-12 19:43 ` [PATCH v3 11/11] mm: rename vm_ops->find_special_page() to vm_ops->find_normal_page() Lorenzo Stoakes
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