[RFC,0/3] expose mapping wrprotect, fix fb_defio use

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Lorenzo Stoakes Jan. 8, 2025, 4:18 p.m. UTC

Right now the only means by which we can write-protect a range using the
reverse mapping is via folio_mkclean().

However this is not always the appropriate means of doing so, specifically
in the case of the framebuffer deferred I/O logic (fb_defio enabled by
CONFIG_FB_DEFERRED_IO). There, kernel pages are mapped read-only and
write-protect faults used to batch up I/O operations.

Each time the deferred work is done, folio_mkclean() is used to mark the
framebuffer page as having had I/O performed on it. However doing so
requires the kernel page (perhaps allocated via vmalloc()) to have its
page->mapping, index fields set so the rmap can find everything that maps
it in order to write-protect.

This is problematic as firstly, these fields should not be set for
kernel-allocated memory, and secondly these are not folios (it's not user
memory) and page->index, mapping fields are now deprecated and soon to be
removed.

The implementers cannot be blamed for having used this however, as there is
simply no other way of performing this operation correctly.

This series fixes this - we provide the rmap_wrprotect_page() function to
allow the reverse mapping to be used to look up mappings from the page
cache object (i.e. its address_space pointer) at a specific offset.

The fb_defio logic already stores this offset, and can simply be expanded
to keep track of the page cache object, so the change then becomes
straight-forward.

This series should have no functional change.

*** REVIEWERS NOTES: ***

I do not have any hardware that uses fb_defio, so I'm asking for help with
testing this series from those who do :) I have tested the mm side of this,
and done a quick compile smoke test of the fb_defio side but this _very
much_ requires testing on actual hardware to ensure everything behaves as
expected.

This is based on Andrew's tree [0] in the mm-unstable branch - I was
thinking it'd be best to go through the mm tree (with fb_defio maintainer
approval, of course!) as it relies upon the mm changes to work correctly.

[0]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm.git/

Lorenzo Stoakes (3):
  mm: refactor rmap_walk_file() to separate out traversal logic
  mm: provide rmap_wrprotect_file_page() function
  fb_defio: do not use deprecated page->mapping, index fields

 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_defio.c |  34 +++----
 include/linux/fb.h                  |   1 +
 include/linux/rmap.h                |  20 +++++
 mm/rmap.c                           | 135 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 4 files changed, 141 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)

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