[PATCH v5 01/26] mm/shmem: Unconditionally set pte dirty in mfill_atomic_install_pte

Peter Xu
2021-07-15T20:15:50Z

It was conditionally done previously, as there's one shmem special case that we
use SetPageDirty() instead. However that's not necessary and it should be
easier and cleaner to do it unconditionally in mfill_atomic_install_pte().

The most recent discussion about this is here, where Hugh explained the history
of SetPageDirty() and why it's possible that it's not required at all:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/alpine.LSU.2.11.2104121657050.1097@eggly.anvils/

Currently mfill_atomic_install_pte() has three callers:

1. shmem_mfill_atomic_pte
2. mcopy_atomic_pte
3. mcontinue_atomic_pte

After the change: case (1) should have its SetPageDirty replaced by the dirty
bit on pte (so we unify them together, finally), case (2) should have no
functional change at all as it has page_in_cache==false, case (3) may add a
dirty bit to the pte. However since case (3) is UFFDIO_CONTINUE for shmem,
it's merely 100% sure the page is dirty after all, so should not make a real
difference either.

This should make it much easier to follow on which case will set dirty for
uffd, as we'll simply set it all now for all uffd related ioctls. Meanwhile,
no special handling of SetPageDirty() if there's no need.

Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
---
mm/shmem.c | 1 -
mm/userfaultfd.c | 3 +--
2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 70d9ce294bb4..dc9f95b5fb34 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -2449,7 +2449,6 @@ int shmem_mfill_atomic_pte(struct mm_struct *dst_mm,
shmem_recalc_inode(inode);
spin_unlock_irq(&info->lock);

- SetPageDirty(page);
unlock_page(page);
return 0;
out_delete_from_cache:
diff --git a/mm/userfaultfd.c b/mm/userfaultfd.c
index 0e2132834bc7..b30a3724c701 100644
--- a/mm/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/mm/userfaultfd.c
@@ -69,10 +69,9 @@ int mfill_atomic_install_pte(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, pmd_t *dst_pmd,
pgoff_t offset, max_off;

_dst_pte = mk_pte(page, dst_vma->vm_page_prot);
+ _dst_pte = pte_mkdirty(_dst_pte);
if (page_in_cache && !vm_shared)
writable = false;
- if (writable || !page_in_cache)
- _dst_pte = pte_mkdirty(_dst_pte);
if (writable) {
if (wp_copy)
_dst_pte = pte_mkuffd_wp(_dst_pte);
--
2.31.1