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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2006-09-25 23:30:57 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-09-26 08:48:44 -0700
commitd08b3851da41d0ee60851f2c75b118e1f7a5fc89 (patch)
treea01f6930a1387e8f66607e2fe16c62bb7044353b /mm/memory.c
parent725d704ecaca4a43f067092c140d4f3271cf2856 (diff)
[PATCH] mm: tracking shared dirty pages
Tracking of dirty pages in shared writeable mmap()s. The idea is simple: write protect clean shared writeable pages, catch the write-fault, make writeable and set dirty. On page write-back clean all the PTE dirty bits and write protect them once again. The implementation is a tad harder, mainly because the default backing_dev_info capabilities were too loosely maintained. Hence it is not enough to test the backing_dev_info for cap_account_dirty. The current heuristic is as follows, a VMA is eligible when: - its shared writeable (vm_flags & (VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED)) == (VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED) - it is not a 'special' mapping (vm_flags & (VM_PFNMAP|VM_INSERTPAGE)) == 0 - the backing_dev_info is cap_account_dirty mapping_cap_account_dirty(vma->vm_file->f_mapping) - f_op->mmap() didn't change the default page protection Page from remap_pfn_range() are explicitly excluded because their COW semantics are already horrid enough (see vm_normal_page() in do_wp_page()) and because they don't have a backing store anyway. mprotect() is taught about the new behaviour as well. However it overrides the last condition. Cleaning the pages on write-back is done with page_mkclean() a new rmap call. It can be called on any page, but is currently only implemented for mapped pages, if the page is found the be of a VMA that accounts dirty pages it will also wrprotect the PTE. Finally, in fs/buffers.c:try_to_free_buffers(); remove clear_page_dirty() from under ->private_lock. This seems to be safe, since ->private_lock is used to serialize access to the buffers, not the page itself. This is needed because clear_page_dirty() will call into page_mkclean() and would thereby violate locking order. [dhowells@redhat.com: Provide a page_mkclean() implementation for NOMMU] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c29
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 109e9866237e..fa941b169071 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1458,14 +1458,19 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
{
struct page *old_page, *new_page;
pte_t entry;
- int reuse, ret = VM_FAULT_MINOR;
+ int reuse = 0, ret = VM_FAULT_MINOR;
+ struct page *dirty_page = NULL;
old_page = vm_normal_page(vma, address, orig_pte);
if (!old_page)
goto gotten;
- if (unlikely((vma->vm_flags & (VM_SHARED|VM_WRITE)) ==
- (VM_SHARED|VM_WRITE))) {
+ /*
+ * Only catch write-faults on shared writable pages, read-only
+ * shared pages can get COWed by get_user_pages(.write=1, .force=1).
+ */
+ if (unlikely((vma->vm_flags & (VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED)) ==
+ (VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED))) {
if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->page_mkwrite) {
/*
* Notify the address space that the page is about to
@@ -1494,13 +1499,12 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
if (!pte_same(*page_table, orig_pte))
goto unlock;
}
-
+ dirty_page = old_page;
+ get_page(dirty_page);
reuse = 1;
} else if (PageAnon(old_page) && !TestSetPageLocked(old_page)) {
reuse = can_share_swap_page(old_page);
unlock_page(old_page);
- } else {
- reuse = 0;
}
if (reuse) {
@@ -1566,6 +1570,10 @@ gotten:
page_cache_release(old_page);
unlock:
pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl);
+ if (dirty_page) {
+ set_page_dirty(dirty_page);
+ put_page(dirty_page);
+ }
return ret;
oom:
if (old_page)
@@ -2098,6 +2106,7 @@ static int do_no_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned int sequence = 0;
int ret = VM_FAULT_MINOR;
int anon = 0;
+ struct page *dirty_page = NULL;
pte_unmap(page_table);
BUG_ON(vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP);
@@ -2192,6 +2201,10 @@ retry:
} else {
inc_mm_counter(mm, file_rss);
page_add_file_rmap(new_page);
+ if (write_access) {
+ dirty_page = new_page;
+ get_page(dirty_page);
+ }
}
} else {
/* One of our sibling threads was faster, back out. */
@@ -2204,6 +2217,10 @@ retry:
lazy_mmu_prot_update(entry);
unlock:
pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl);
+ if (dirty_page) {
+ set_page_dirty(dirty_page);
+ put_page(dirty_page);
+ }
return ret;
oom:
page_cache_release(new_page);