[PATCH 4.9 03/38] mm, thp: Do not make page table dirty unconditionally in touch_p[mu]d() - Greg Kroah-Hartman

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 03/38] mm, thp: Do not make page table dirty unconditionally in touch_p[mu]d()
Date: Mon,  4 Dec 2017 16:59:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171204160007.585543564@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171204160007.448534903@linuxfoundation.org>

4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>

commit a8f97366452ed491d13cf1e44241bc0b5740b1f0 upstream.

Currently, we unconditionally make page table dirty in touch_pmd().
It may result in false-positive can_follow_write_pmd().

We may avoid the situation, if we would only make the page table entry
dirty if caller asks for write access -- FOLL_WRITE.

The patch also changes touch_pud() in the same way.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[Salvatore Bonaccorso: backport for 4.9:
 - Adjust context
 - Drop specific part for PUD-sized transparent hugepages. Support
   for PUD-sized transparent hugepages was added in v4.11-rc1
]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 mm/huge_memory.c |   19 +++++++------------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -745,20 +745,15 @@ int vmf_insert_pfn_pmd(struct vm_area_st
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vmf_insert_pfn_pmd);
 
 static void touch_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
-		pmd_t *pmd)
+		pmd_t *pmd, int flags)
 {
 	pmd_t _pmd;
 
-	/*
-	 * We should set the dirty bit only for FOLL_WRITE but for now
-	 * the dirty bit in the pmd is meaningless.  And if the dirty
-	 * bit will become meaningful and we'll only set it with
-	 * FOLL_WRITE, an atomic set_bit will be required on the pmd to
-	 * set the young bit, instead of the current set_pmd_at.
-	 */
-	_pmd = pmd_mkyoung(pmd_mkdirty(*pmd));
+	_pmd = pmd_mkyoung(*pmd);
+	if (flags & FOLL_WRITE)
+		_pmd = pmd_mkdirty(_pmd);
 	if (pmdp_set_access_flags(vma, addr & HPAGE_PMD_MASK,
-				pmd, _pmd,  1))
+				pmd, _pmd, flags & FOLL_WRITE))
 		update_mmu_cache_pmd(vma, addr, pmd);
 }
 
@@ -787,7 +782,7 @@ struct page *follow_devmap_pmd(struct vm
 		return NULL;
 
 	if (flags & FOLL_TOUCH)
-		touch_pmd(vma, addr, pmd);
+		touch_pmd(vma, addr, pmd, flags);
 
 	/*
 	 * device mapped pages can only be returned if the
@@ -1158,7 +1153,7 @@ struct page *follow_trans_huge_pmd(struc
 	page = pmd_page(*pmd);
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageHead(page) && !is_zone_device_page(page), page);
 	if (flags & FOLL_TOUCH)
-		touch_pmd(vma, addr, pmd);
+		touch_pmd(vma, addr, pmd, flags);
 	if ((flags & FOLL_MLOCK) && (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED)) {
 		/*
 		 * We don't mlock() pte-mapped THPs. This way we can avoid
