[PATCH 3/4] mm: Introduce page_needs_cow_for_dma() for deciding whether cow

Peter Xu
2021-02-03T21:11:12Z

We've got quite a few places (pte, pmd, pud) that explicitly checked against
whether we should break the cow right now during fork(). It's easier to
provide a helper, especially before we work the same thing on hugetlbfs.

Since we'll reference is_cow_mapping() in mm.h, move it there too. Actually it
suites mm.h more since internal.h is mm/ only, but mm.h is exported to the
whole kernel. With that we should expect another patch to use is_cow_mapping()
whenever we can across the kernel since we do use it quite a lot but it's
always done with raw code against VM_* flags.

Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
---
include/linux/mm.h | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
mm/huge_memory.c | 8 ++------
mm/internal.h | 5 -----
mm/memory.c | 7 +------
4 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index ecdf8a8cd6ae..6ea20721d349 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1291,6 +1291,27 @@ static inline bool page_maybe_dma_pinned(struct page *page)
GUP_PIN_COUNTING_BIAS;
}

+static inline bool is_cow_mapping(vm_flags_t flags)
+{
+ return (flags & (VM_SHARED | VM_MAYWRITE)) == VM_MAYWRITE;
+}
+
+/*
+ * This should most likely only be called during fork() to see whether we
+ * should break the cow immediately for a page on the src mm.
+ */
+static inline bool page_needs_cow_for_dma(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ struct page *page)
+{
+ if (!is_cow_mapping(vma->vm_flags))
+ return false;
+
+ if (!atomic_read(&vma->vm_mm->has_pinned))
+ return false;
+
+ return page_maybe_dma_pinned(page);
+}
+
#if defined(CONFIG_SPARSEMEM) && !defined(CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP)
#define SECTION_IN_PAGE_FLAGS
#endif
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 9237976abe72..dbff6c7eda67 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1095,9 +1095,7 @@ int copy_huge_pmd(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, struct mm_struct *src_mm,
* best effort that the pinned pages won't be replaced by another
* random page during the coming copy-on-write.
*/
- if (unlikely(is_cow_mapping(vma->vm_flags) &&
- atomic_read(&src_mm->has_pinned) &&
- page_maybe_dma_pinned(src_page))) {
+ if (unlikely(page_needs_cow_for_dma(vma, src_page))) {
pte_free(dst_mm, pgtable);
spin_unlock(src_ptl);
spin_unlock(dst_ptl);
@@ -1209,9 +1207,7 @@ int copy_huge_pud(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, struct mm_struct *src_mm,
}

/* Please refer to comments in copy_huge_pmd() */
- if (unlikely(is_cow_mapping(vma->vm_flags) &&
- atomic_read(&src_mm->has_pinned) &&
- page_maybe_dma_pinned(pud_page(pud)))) {
+ if (unlikely(page_needs_cow_for_dma(vma, pud_page(pud)))) {
spin_unlock(src_ptl);
spin_unlock(dst_ptl);
__split_huge_pud(vma, src_pud, addr);
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index 25d2b2439f19..24eec93d0dac 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -296,11 +296,6 @@ static inline unsigned int buddy_order(struct page *page)
*/
#define buddy_order_unsafe(page) READ_ONCE(page_private(page))

-static inline bool is_cow_mapping(vm_flags_t flags)
-{
- return (flags & (VM_SHARED | VM_MAYWRITE)) == VM_MAYWRITE;
-}
-
/*
* These three helpers classifies VMAs for virtual memory accounting.
*/
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index feff48e1465a..b2849e1d4aab 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -800,9 +800,6 @@ copy_present_page(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma, struct vm_area_struct *src_vma
struct mm_struct *src_mm = src_vma->vm_mm;
struct page *new_page;

- if (!is_cow_mapping(src_vma->vm_flags))
- return 1;
-
/*
* What we want to do is to check whether this page may
* have been pinned by the parent process. If so,
@@ -816,9 +813,7 @@ copy_present_page(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma, struct vm_area_struct *src_vma
* the page count. That might give false positives for
* for pinning, but it will work correctly.
*/
- if (likely(!atomic_read(&src_mm->has_pinned)))
- return 1;
- if (likely(!page_maybe_dma_pinned(page)))
+ if (likely(!page_needs_cow_for_dma(src_vma, page)))
return 1;

new_page = *prealloc;
--
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