| Message ID | 20150623114453.GA8603@node.dhcp.inet.fi (mailing list archive) |
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On Tue, 2015-06-23 at 14:44 +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 02:55:55PM -0600, Toshi Kani wrote: > > On Sat, 2015-06-20 at 22:46 +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 04:28:30PM -0600, Toshi Kani wrote: > > > > DAX has the following issues in a shared or read-only private > > > > mmap'd file. > > > > - mmap(MAP_POPULATE) does not pre-fault > > > > - mlock() fails with -ENOMEM > > > > > > > > DAX uses VM_MIXEDMAP for mmap'd files, which do not have struct > > > > page associated with the ranges. Both MAP_POPULATE and mlock() > > > > call __mm_populate(), which in turn calls __get_user_pages(). > > > > Because __get_user_pages() requires a valid page returned from > > > > follow_page_mask(), MAP_POPULATE and mlock(), i.e. FOLL_POPULATE, > > > > fail in the first page. > > > > > > > > Change __get_user_pages() to proceed FOLL_POPULATE when the > > > > translation is set but its page does not exist (-EFAULT), and > > > > @pages is not requested. With that, MAP_POPULATE and mlock() > > > > set translations to the requested range and complete successfully. > > > > > > > > MAP_POPULATE still provides a major performance improvement to > > > > DAX as it will avoid page faults during initial access to the > > > > pages. > > > > > > > > mlock() continues to set VM_LOCKED to vma and populate the range. > > > > Since there is no struct page, the range is pinned without marking > > > > pages mlocked. > > > > > > > > Note, MAP_POPULATE and mlock() already work for a write-able > > > > private mmap'd file on DAX since populate_vma_page_range() breaks > > > > COW, which allocates page caches. > > > > > > I don't think that's true in all cases. > > > > > > We would fail to break COW for mlock() if the mapping is populated with > > > read-only entries by the mlock() time. In this case follow_page_mask() > > > would fail with -EFAULT and faultin_page() will never executed. > > > > No, mlock() always breaks COW as populate_vma_page_range() sets > > FOLL_WRITE in case of write-able private mmap. > > > > /* > > * We want to touch writable mappings with a write fault in order > > * to break COW, except for shared mappings because these don't COW > > * and we would not want to dirty them for nothing. > > */ > > if ((vma->vm_flags & (VM_WRITE | VM_SHARED)) == VM_WRITE) > > gup_flags |= FOLL_WRITE; > > Okay, you're right it should work. > > What about doing this in more generic way? The totally untested patch > below tries to make GUP work on DAX and other pfn maps when struct page > is not required. > > Any comments? The changes look good to me. I have also run my mmap() & mlock() tests and they passed with the changes. (They can only exercise follow_pfn_pte() with FOLL_TOUCH, though.) Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Thanks, -Toshi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c index 222d57e335f9..03645f400748 100644 --- a/mm/gup.c +++ b/mm/gup.c @@ -33,6 +33,30 @@ static struct page *no_page_table(struct vm_area_struct *vma, return NULL; } +static int follow_pfn_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, + pte_t *pte, unsigned int flags) +{ + /* No page to get reference */ + if (flags & FOLL_GET) + return -EFAULT; + + if (flags & FOLL_TOUCH) { + pte_t entry = *pte; + + if (flags & FOLL_WRITE) + entry = pte_mkdirty(entry); + entry = pte_mkyoung(entry); + + if (!pte_same(*pte, entry)) { + set_pte_at(vma->vm_mm, address, pte, entry); + update_mmu_cache(vma, address, pte); + } + } + + /* Proper page table entry exists, but no corresponding struct page */ + return -EEXIST; +} + static struct page *follow_page_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, pmd_t *pmd, unsigned int flags) { @@ -74,10 +98,21 @@ retry: page = vm_normal_page(vma, address, pte); if (unlikely(!page)) { - if ((flags & FOLL_DUMP) || - !is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pte))) - goto bad_page; - page = pte_page(pte); + if (flags & FOLL_DUMP) { + /* Avoid special (like zero) pages in core dumps */ + page = ERR_PTR(-EFAULT); + goto out; + } + + if (is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pte))) { + page = pte_page(pte); + } else { + int ret; + + ret = follow_pfn_pte(vma, address, ptep, flags); + page = ERR_PTR(ret); + goto out; + } } if (flags & FOLL_GET) @@ -115,12 +150,9 @@ retry: unlock_page(page); } } +out: pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl); return page; -bad_page: - pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl); - return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT); - no_page: pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl); if (!pte_none(pte)) @@ -490,9 +522,15 @@ retry: goto next_page; } BUG(); - } - if (IS_ERR(page)) + } else if (PTR_ERR(page) == -EEXIST) { + /* + * Proper page table entry exists, but no corresponding + * struct page. + */ + goto next_page; + } else if (IS_ERR(page)) { return i ? i : PTR_ERR(page); + } if (pages) { pages[i] = page; flush_anon_page(vma, page, start);