From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753746AbdAZL7g (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2017 06:59:36 -0500 Received: from mga14.intel.com ([192.55.52.115]:61690 "EHLO mga14.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753607AbdAZL7d (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jan 2017 06:59:33 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.33,289,1477983600"; d="scan'208";a="1118089938" From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" To: "Theodore Ts'o" , Andreas Dilger , Jan Kara , Andrew Morton Cc: Alexander Viro , Hugh Dickins , Andrea Arcangeli , Dave Hansen , Vlastimil Babka , Matthew Wilcox , Ross Zwisler , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, "Kirill A. Shutemov" Subject: [PATCHv6 06/37] thp: handle write-protection faults for file THP Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 14:57:48 +0300 Message-Id: <20170126115819.58875-7-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.11.0 In-Reply-To: <20170126115819.58875-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> References: <20170126115819.58875-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org For filesystems that wants to be write-notified (has mkwrite), we will encount write-protection faults for huge PMDs in shared mappings. The easiest way to handle them is to clear the PMD and let it refault as wriable. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Reviewed-by: Jan Kara --- mm/memory.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index 6bf2b471e30c..903d9d3e01c0 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -3488,8 +3488,16 @@ static int wp_huge_pmd(struct vm_fault *vmf, pmd_t orig_pmd) return vmf->vma->vm_ops->pmd_fault(vmf->vma, vmf->address, vmf->pmd, vmf->flags); + if (vmf->vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED) { + /* Clear PMD */ + zap_page_range_single(vmf->vma, vmf->address & HPAGE_PMD_MASK, + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE, NULL); + + /* Refault to establish writable PMD */ + return 0; + } + /* COW handled on pte level: split pmd */ - VM_BUG_ON_VMA(vmf->vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED, vmf->vma); __split_huge_pmd(vmf->vma, vmf->pmd, vmf->address, false, NULL); return VM_FAULT_FALLBACK; -- 2.11.0