From 89f5b7da2a6bad2e84670422ab8192382a5aeb9f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:18:25 -0700 Subject: Reinstate ZERO_PAGE optimization in 'get_user_pages()' and fix XIP KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki and Oleg Nesterov point out that since the commit 557ed1fa2620dc119adb86b34c614e152a629a80 ("remove ZERO_PAGE") removed the ZERO_PAGE from the VM mappings, any users of get_user_pages() will generally now populate the VM with real empty pages needlessly. We used to get the ZERO_PAGE when we did the "handle_mm_fault()", but since fault handling no longer uses ZERO_PAGE for new anonymous pages, we now need to handle that special case in follow_page() instead. In particular, the removal of ZERO_PAGE effectively removed the core file writing optimization where we would skip writing pages that had not been populated at all, and increased memory pressure a lot by allocating all those useless newly zeroed pages. This reinstates the optimization by making the unmapped PTE case the same as for a non-existent page table, which already did this correctly. While at it, this also fixes the XIP case for follow_page(), where the caller could not differentiate between the case of a page that simply could not be used (because it had no "struct page" associated with it) and a page that just wasn't mapped. We do that by simply returning an error pointer for pages that could not be turned into a "struct page *". The error is arbitrarily picked to be EFAULT, since that was what get_user_pages() already used for the equivalent IO-mapped page case. [ Also removed an impossible test for pte_offset_map_lock() failing: that's not how that function works ] Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Nick Piggin Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/memory.c | 17 +++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/memory.c') diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index 19e0ae9beecb..9aefaae46858 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -999,17 +999,15 @@ struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, goto no_page_table; ptep = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, address, &ptl); - if (!ptep) - goto out; pte = *ptep; if (!pte_present(pte)) - goto unlock; + goto no_page; if ((flags & FOLL_WRITE) && !pte_write(pte)) goto unlock; page = vm_normal_page(vma, address, pte); if (unlikely(!page)) - goto unlock; + goto bad_page; if (flags & FOLL_GET) get_page(page); @@ -1024,6 +1022,15 @@ unlock: out: return page; +bad_page: + pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl); + return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT); + +no_page: + pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl); + if (!pte_none(pte)) + return page; + /* Fall through to ZERO_PAGE handling */ no_page_table: /* * When core dumping an enormous anonymous area that nobody @@ -1159,6 +1166,8 @@ int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm, cond_resched(); } + if (IS_ERR(page)) + return i ? i : PTR_ERR(page); if (pages) { pages[i] = page; -- cgit v1.2.3