From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Tiberiu Georgescu <tiberiu.georgescu@nutanix.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>,
Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/26] userfaultfd-wp: Support shmem and hugetlbfs
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 16:12:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YPXcvJ6TEzALyb/v@t490s> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <251ed5e3-d898-efdc-ca5c-7b047dc80cb4@redhat.com>
On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 09:21:18PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> Hi Peter,
Hi, David,
>
> I just stumbled over copy_page_range() optimization
>
> /*
> * Don't copy ptes where a page fault will fill them correctly.
> * Fork becomes much lighter when there are big shared or private
> * readonly mappings. The tradeoff is that copy_page_range is more
> * efficient than faulting.
> */
> if (!(src_vma->vm_flags & (VM_HUGETLB | VM_PFNMAP | VM_MIXEDMAP)) &&
> !src_vma->anon_vma)
> return 0;
>
> IIUC, that means you'll not copy the WP bits for shmem and,
> therefore, lose them during fork.
Good point.
I think the fix shouldn't be hard - we can also skip this if dst_vma->vm_flags
has VM_UFFD_WP set (that means UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_FORK is enabled too). But
I'll check a bit into page copy later to make sure it works (maybe I'll add a
small test case too).
Thanks!
--
Peter Xu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-19 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-15 20:13 [PATCH v5 00/26] userfaultfd-wp: Support shmem and hugetlbfs Peter Xu
2021-07-15 20:13 ` [PATCH v5 01/26] mm/shmem: Unconditionally set pte dirty in mfill_atomic_install_pte Peter Xu
2021-07-15 20:13 ` [PATCH v5 02/26] shmem/userfaultfd: Take care of UFFDIO_COPY_MODE_WP Peter Xu
2021-07-15 20:13 ` [PATCH v5 03/26] mm: Clear vmf->pte after pte_unmap_same() returns Peter Xu
2021-07-15 20:14 ` [PATCH v5 04/26] mm/userfaultfd: Introduce special pte for unmapped file-backed mem Peter Xu
2021-07-15 20:14 ` [PATCH v5 05/26] mm/swap: Introduce the idea of special swap ptes Peter Xu
2021-07-16 5:50 ` Alistair Popple
2021-07-16 19:11 ` Peter Xu
2021-07-21 11:28 ` Alistair Popple
2021-07-21 21:35 ` Peter Xu
2021-07-22 1:08 ` Alistair Popple
2021-07-22 15:21 ` Peter Xu
2021-07-15 20:14 ` [PATCH v5 06/26] shmem/userfaultfd: Handle uffd-wp special pte in page fault handler Peter Xu
2021-07-15 20:14 ` [PATCH v5 07/26] mm: Drop first_index/last_index in zap_details Peter Xu
2021-07-15 20:14 ` [PATCH v5 08/26] mm: Introduce zap_details.zap_flags Peter Xu
2021-07-15 20:14 ` [PATCH v5 09/26] mm: Introduce ZAP_FLAG_SKIP_SWAP Peter Xu
2021-07-15 20:14 ` [PATCH v5 10/26] shmem/userfaultfd: Persist uffd-wp bit across zapping for file-backed Peter Xu
2021-07-15 20:15 ` [PATCH v5 11/26] shmem/userfaultfd: Allow wr-protect none pte for file-backed mem Peter Xu
2021-07-15 20:16 ` [PATCH v5 12/26] shmem/userfaultfd: Allows file-back mem to be uffd wr-protected on thps Peter Xu
2021-07-15 20:16 ` [PATCH v5 13/26] shmem/userfaultfd: Handle the left-overed special swap ptes Peter Xu
2021-07-15 20:16 ` [PATCH v5 14/26] shmem/userfaultfd: Pass over uffd-wp special swap pte when fork() Peter Xu
2021-07-15 20:16 ` [PATCH v5 15/26] mm/hugetlb: Drop __unmap_hugepage_range definition from hugetlb.h Peter Xu
2021-07-15 20:16 ` [PATCH v5 16/26] mm/hugetlb: Introduce huge pte version of uffd-wp helpers Peter Xu
2021-07-15 20:16 ` [PATCH v5 17/26] hugetlb/userfaultfd: Hook page faults for uffd write protection Peter Xu
2021-07-20 15:37 ` kernel test robot
2021-07-21 21:50 ` Peter Xu
2021-07-15 20:16 ` [PATCH v5 18/26] hugetlb/userfaultfd: Take care of UFFDIO_COPY_MODE_WP Peter Xu
2021-07-20 23:59 ` kernel test robot
2021-07-15 20:16 ` [PATCH v5 19/26] hugetlb/userfaultfd: Handle UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT Peter Xu
2021-07-21 8:24 ` kernel test robot
2021-07-15 20:16 ` [PATCH v5 20/26] mm/hugetlb: Introduce huge version of special swap pte helpers Peter Xu
2021-07-15 20:16 ` [PATCH v5 21/26] hugetlb/userfaultfd: Handle uffd-wp special pte in hugetlb pf handler Peter Xu
2021-07-15 20:16 ` [PATCH v5 22/26] hugetlb/userfaultfd: Allow wr-protect none ptes Peter Xu
2021-07-15 20:16 ` [PATCH v5 23/26] hugetlb/userfaultfd: Only drop uffd-wp special pte if required Peter Xu
2021-07-15 20:16 ` [PATCH v5 24/26] mm/pagemap: Recognize uffd-wp bit for shmem/hugetlbfs Peter Xu
2021-07-19 9:53 ` Tiberiu Georgescu
2021-07-19 16:03 ` Peter Xu
2021-07-19 17:23 ` Tiberiu Georgescu
2021-07-19 17:56 ` Peter Xu
2021-07-21 14:38 ` Ivan Teterevkov
2021-07-21 16:19 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-07-21 19:54 ` Ivan Teterevkov
2021-07-21 22:28 ` Peter Xu
2021-07-21 22:57 ` Peter Xu
2021-07-22 6:27 ` David Hildenbrand
2021-07-22 16:08 ` Peter Xu
2021-07-15 20:16 ` [PATCH v5 25/26] mm/userfaultfd: Enable write protection for shmem & hugetlbfs Peter Xu
2021-07-15 20:16 ` [PATCH v5 26/26] userfaultfd/selftests: Enable uffd-wp for shmem/hugetlbfs Peter Xu
2021-07-19 19:21 ` [PATCH v5 00/26] userfaultfd-wp: Support shmem and hugetlbfs David Hildenbrand
2021-07-19 20:12 ` Peter Xu [this message]
2021-07-22 18:30 ` Peter Xu
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