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| H A D | memory.c | diff 70e806e4e645019102d0e09d4933654fb5fb58ce Sat Sep 26 00:25:59 CEST 2020 Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> mm: Do early cow for pinned pages during fork() for ptes
This allows copy_pte_range() to do early cow if the pages were pinned on
the source mm.
Currently we don't have an accurate way to know whether a page is pinned
or not. The only thing we have is page_maybe_dma_pinned(). However
that's good enough for now. Especially, with the newly added
mm->has_pinned flag to make sure we won't affect processes that never
pinned any pages.
It would be easier if we can do GFP_KERNEL allocation within
copy_one_pte(). Unluckily, we can't because we're with the page table
locks held for both the parent and child processes. So the page
allocation needs to be done outside copy_one_pte().
Some trick is there in copy_present_pte(), majorly the wrprotect trick
to block concurrent fast-gup. Comments in the function should explain
better in place.
Oleg Nesterov reported a (probably harmless) bug during review that we
didn't reset entry.val properly in copy_pte_range() so that potentially
there's chance to call add_swap_count_continuation() multiple times on
the same swp entry. However that should be harmless since even if it
happens, the same function (add_swap_count_continuation()) will return
directly noticing that there're enough space for the swp counter. So
instead of a standalone stable patch, it is touched up in this patch
directly.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200914143829.GA1424636@nvidia.com/
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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