From: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
To: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Maya Gokhale <gokhale2@llnl.gov>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>,
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Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>,
Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
Marty McFadden <mcfadden8@llnl.gov>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
"Dr . David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 06/24] userfaultfd: wp: support write protection for userfault vma range
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 21:43:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190123024338.GB3652@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190123021745.GB2970@xz-x1>
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 10:17:45AM +0800, Peter Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 12:02:24PM -0500, Jerome Glisse wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 05:39:35PM +0800, Peter Xu wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 09:05:35AM -0500, Jerome Glisse wrote:
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > > > + change_protection(dst_vma, start, start + len, newprot,
> > > > > + !enable_wp, 0);
> > > >
> > > > So setting dirty_accountable bring us to that code in mprotect.c:
> > > >
> > > > if (dirty_accountable && pte_dirty(ptent) &&
> > > > (pte_soft_dirty(ptent) ||
> > > > !(vma->vm_flags & VM_SOFTDIRTY))) {
> > > > ptent = pte_mkwrite(ptent);
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > My understanding is that you want to set write flag when enable_wp
> > > > is false and you want to set the write flag unconditionaly, right ?
> > >
> > > Right.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > If so then you should really move the change_protection() flags
> > > > patch before this patch and add a flag for setting pte write flags.
> > > >
> > > > Otherwise the above is broken at it will only set the write flag
> > > > for pte that were dirty and i am guessing so far you always were
> > > > lucky because pte were all dirty (change_protection will preserve
> > > > dirtyness) when you write protected them.
> > > >
> > > > So i believe the above is broken or at very least unclear if what
> > > > you really want is to only set write flag to pte that have the
> > > > dirty flag set.
> > >
> > > You are right, if we build the tree until this patch it won't work for
> > > all the cases. It'll only work if the page was at least writable
> > > before and also it's dirty (as you explained). Sorry to be unclear
> > > about this, maybe I should at least mention that in the commit message
> > > but I totally forgot it.
> > >
> > > All these problems are solved in later on patches, please feel free to
> > > have a look at:
> > >
> > > mm: merge parameters for change_protection()
> > > userfaultfd: wp: apply _PAGE_UFFD_WP bit
> > > userfaultfd: wp: handle COW properly for uffd-wp
> > >
> > > Note that even in the follow up patches IMHO we can't directly change
> > > the write permission since the page can be shared by other processes
> > > (e.g., the zero page or COW pages). But the general idea is the same
> > > as you explained.
> > >
> > > I tried to avoid squashing these stuff altogether as explained
> > > previously. Also, this patch can be seen as a standalone patch to
> > > introduce the new interface which seems to make sense too, and it is
> > > indeed still working in many cases so I see the latter patches as
> > > enhancement of this one. Please let me know if you still want me to
> > > have all these stuff squashed, or if you'd like me to squash some of
> > > them.
> >
> > Yeah i have look at those after looking at this one. You should just
> > re-order the patch this one first and then one that add new flag,
> > then ones that add the new userfaultfd feature. Otherwise you are
> > adding a userfaultfd feature that is broken midway ie it is added
> > broken and then you fix it. Some one bisecting thing might get hurt
> > by that. It is better to add and change everything you need and then
> > add the new feature so that the new feature will work as intended.
> >
> > So no squashing just change the order ie add the userfaultfd code
> > last.
>
> Yes this makes sense, I'll do that in v2. Thanks for the suggestion!
Note before doing a v2 i would really like to see some proof of why
you need new page table flag see my reply to:
userfaultfd: wp: add WP pagetable tracking to x86
As i believe you can identify COW or KSM from UFD write protect with-
out a pte flag.
Cheers,
Jérôme
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-23 2:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-21 7:56 [PATCH RFC 00/24] userfaultfd: write protection support Peter Xu
2019-01-21 7:56 ` [PATCH RFC 01/24] mm: gup: rename "nonblocking" to "locked" where proper Peter Xu
2019-01-21 10:20 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-21 7:57 ` [PATCH RFC 02/24] mm: userfault: return VM_FAULT_RETRY on signals Peter Xu
2019-01-21 15:40 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-01-22 6:10 ` Peter Xu
2019-01-21 7:57 ` [PATCH RFC 03/24] mm: allow VM_FAULT_RETRY for multiple times Peter Xu
2019-01-21 15:55 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-01-22 8:22 ` Peter Xu
2019-01-22 16:53 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-01-23 2:12 ` Peter Xu
2019-01-23 2:39 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-01-24 5:45 ` Peter Xu
2019-01-21 7:57 ` [PATCH RFC 04/24] mm: gup: " Peter Xu
2019-01-21 16:24 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-01-24 7:05 ` Peter Xu
2019-01-24 15:34 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-01-25 2:49 ` Peter Xu
2019-01-21 7:57 ` [PATCH RFC 05/24] userfaultfd: wp: add helper for writeprotect check Peter Xu
2019-01-21 10:23 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-22 8:31 ` Peter Xu
2019-01-21 7:57 ` [PATCH RFC 06/24] userfaultfd: wp: support write protection for userfault vma range Peter Xu
2019-01-21 10:20 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-22 8:55 ` Peter Xu
2019-01-21 14:05 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-01-22 9:39 ` Peter Xu
2019-01-22 17:02 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-01-23 2:17 ` Peter Xu
2019-01-23 2:43 ` Jerome Glisse [this message]
2019-01-24 5:47 ` Peter Xu
2019-01-21 7:57 ` [PATCH RFC 07/24] userfaultfd: wp: add the writeprotect API to userfaultfd ioctl Peter Xu
2019-01-21 10:42 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-24 4:56 ` Peter Xu
2019-01-24 7:27 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-24 9:28 ` Peter Xu
2019-01-25 7:54 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-25 10:12 ` Peter Xu
2019-01-21 7:57 ` [PATCH RFC 08/24] userfaultfd: wp: hook userfault handler to write protection fault Peter Xu
2019-01-21 7:57 ` [PATCH RFC 09/24] userfaultfd: wp: enabled write protection in userfaultfd API Peter Xu
2019-01-21 7:57 ` [PATCH RFC 10/24] userfaultfd: wp: add WP pagetable tracking to x86 Peter Xu
2019-01-21 15:09 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-01-24 5:16 ` Peter Xu
2019-01-24 15:40 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-01-25 3:30 ` Peter Xu
2019-01-21 7:57 ` [PATCH RFC 11/24] userfaultfd: wp: userfaultfd_pte/huge_pmd_wp() helpers Peter Xu
2019-01-21 7:57 ` [PATCH RFC 12/24] userfaultfd: wp: add UFFDIO_COPY_MODE_WP Peter Xu
2019-01-21 7:57 ` [PATCH RFC 13/24] mm: merge parameters for change_protection() Peter Xu
2019-01-21 13:54 ` Jerome Glisse
2019-01-24 5:22 ` Peter Xu
2019-01-21 7:57 ` [PATCH RFC 14/24] userfaultfd: wp: apply _PAGE_UFFD_WP bit Peter Xu
2019-01-21 7:57 ` [PATCH RFC 15/24] mm: export wp_page_copy() Peter Xu
2019-01-21 7:57 ` [PATCH RFC 16/24] userfaultfd: wp: handle COW properly for uffd-wp Peter Xu
2019-01-21 7:57 ` [PATCH RFC 17/24] userfaultfd: wp: drop _PAGE_UFFD_WP properly when fork Peter Xu
2019-01-21 7:57 ` [PATCH RFC 18/24] userfaultfd: wp: add pmd_swp_*uffd_wp() helpers Peter Xu
2019-01-21 7:57 ` [PATCH RFC 19/24] userfaultfd: wp: support swap and page migration Peter Xu
2019-01-21 7:57 ` [PATCH RFC 20/24] userfaultfd: wp: don't wake up when doing write protect Peter Xu
2019-01-21 11:10 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-01-24 5:36 ` Peter Xu
2019-01-21 7:57 ` [PATCH RFC 21/24] khugepaged: skip collapse if uffd-wp detected Peter Xu
2019-01-21 7:57 ` [PATCH RFC 22/24] userfaultfd: wp: UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_WP documentation update Peter Xu
2019-01-21 7:57 ` [PATCH RFC 23/24] userfaultfd: selftests: refactor statistics Peter Xu
2019-01-21 7:57 ` [PATCH RFC 24/24] userfaultfd: selftests: add write-protect test Peter Xu
2019-01-21 14:33 ` [PATCH RFC 00/24] userfaultfd: write protection support David Hildenbrand
2019-01-22 3:18 ` Peter Xu
2019-01-22 8:59 ` David Hildenbrand
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