From patchwork Mon Aug 21 21:57:03 2017 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Ross Zwisler X-Patchwork-Id: 9913841 Return-Path: Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.125]) by pdx-korg-patchwork.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E17A0608BA for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2017 21:57:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4A36287CC for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2017 21:57:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix, from userid 486) id D2FAA287E2; Mon, 21 Aug 2017 21:57:10 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=2.0 tests=BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from ml01.01.org (ml01.01.org [198.145.21.10]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D39E7287D3 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2017 21:57:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by ml01.01.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAB4021E49BB2; Mon, 21 Aug 2017 14:54:33 -0700 (PDT) X-Original-To: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org Delivered-To: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org Received: from mga05.intel.com (mga05.intel.com [192.55.52.43]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ml01.01.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E30E421E49BAB for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2017 14:54:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orsmga005.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.41]) by fmsmga105.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 21 Aug 2017 14:57:04 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.41,410,1498546800"; d="scan'208";a="140425510" Received: from theros.lm.intel.com (HELO linux.intel.com) ([10.232.112.77]) by orsmga005.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 21 Aug 2017 14:57:03 -0700 Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 15:57:03 -0600 From: Ross Zwisler To: Jan Kara Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/13] mm: Wire up MAP_SYNC Message-ID: <20170821215703.GA24473@linux.intel.com> Mail-Followup-To: Ross Zwisler , Jan Kara , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, Andy Lutomirski , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Dan Williams , Boaz Harrosh References: <20170817160815.30466-1-jack@suse.cz> <20170817160815.30466-11-jack@suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170817160815.30466-11-jack@suse.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.8.3 (2017-05-23) X-BeenThere: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: "Linux-nvdimm developer list." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Boaz Harrosh , linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Errors-To: linux-nvdimm-bounces@lists.01.org Sender: "Linux-nvdimm" X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 06:08:12PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > Pretty crude for now... > > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara One other thing that should probably be wired up before this is all said and done is the VmFlag string in /proc//smaps. Right now when we set this flag it ends up as ??: 7f44e6cbd000-7f44e6dbd000 rw-s 00000000 103:00 12 /root/dax/data Size: 1024 kB Rss: 0 kB Pss: 0 kB Shared_Clean: 0 kB Shared_Dirty: 0 kB Private_Clean: 0 kB Private_Dirty: 0 kB Referenced: 0 kB Anonymous: 0 kB LazyFree: 0 kB AnonHugePages: 0 kB ShmemPmdMapped: 0 kB Shared_Hugetlb: 0 kB Private_Hugetlb: 0 kB Swap: 0 kB SwapPss: 0 kB KernelPageSize: 4 kB MMUPageSize: 4 kB Locked: 0 kB VmFlags: rd wr sh mr mw me ms ?? mm hg The quick one-liner at the end of this patch changes that to: 7fe30e87f000-7fe30e97f000 rw-s 00000000 103:00 12 /root/dax/data Size: 1024 kB Rss: 0 kB Pss: 0 kB Shared_Clean: 0 kB Shared_Dirty: 0 kB Private_Clean: 0 kB Private_Dirty: 0 kB Referenced: 0 kB Anonymous: 0 kB LazyFree: 0 kB AnonHugePages: 0 kB ShmemPmdMapped: 0 kB Shared_Hugetlb: 0 kB Private_Hugetlb: 0 kB Swap: 0 kB SwapPss: 0 kB KernelPageSize: 4 kB MMUPageSize: 4 kB Locked: 0 kB VmFlags: rd wr sh mr mw me ms sf mm hg I think that of software can rely on this flag for userspace flushing without worrying about any new TOCTOU races because there isn't a way to unset the VM_SYNC flag once it is set - it should be valid as long as the mmap() remains open and the mmap'd address is valid. --- 8< --- fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c index b836fd6..a2a82ed 100644 --- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c +++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c @@ -650,6 +650,7 @@ static void show_smap_vma_flags(struct seq_file *m, struct vm_area_struct *vma) [ilog2(VM_ACCOUNT)] = "ac", [ilog2(VM_NORESERVE)] = "nr", [ilog2(VM_HUGETLB)] = "ht", + [ilog2(VM_SYNC)] = "sf", [ilog2(VM_ARCH_1)] = "ar", [ilog2(VM_DONTDUMP)] = "dd", #ifdef CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY