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David Hildenbrand 6a56ccbcf6 mm/autonuma: use can_change_(pte|pmd)_writable() to replace savedwrite 
commit b191f9b106 ("mm: numa: preserve PTE write permissions across a
NUMA hinting fault") added remembering write permissions using ordinary
pte_write() for PROT_NONE mapped pages to avoid write faults when
remapping the page !PROT_NONE on NUMA hinting faults.

That commit noted:

    The patch looks hacky but the alternatives looked worse. The tidest was
    to rewalk the page tables after a hinting fault but it was more complex
    than this approach and the performance was worse. It's not generally
    safe to just mark the page writable during the fault if it's a write
    fault as it may have been read-only for COW so that approach was
    discarded.

Later, commit 288bc54949 ("mm/autonuma: let architecture override how
the write bit should be stashed in a protnone pte.") introduced a family
of savedwrite PTE functions that didn't necessarily improve the whole
situation.

One confusing thing is that nowadays, if a page is pte_protnone()
and pte_savedwrite() then also pte_write() is true. Another source of
confusion is that there is only a single pte_mk_savedwrite() call in the
kernel. All other write-protection code seems to silently rely on
pte_wrprotect().

Ever since PageAnonExclusive was introduced and we started using it in
mprotect context via commit 64fe24a3e0 ("mm/mprotect: try avoiding write
faults for exclusive anonymous pages when changing protection"), we do
have machinery in place to avoid write faults when changing protection,
which is exactly what we want to do here.

Let's similarly do what ordinary mprotect() does nowadays when upgrading
write permissions and reuse can_change_pte_writable() and
can_change_pmd_writable() to detect if we can upgrade PTE permissions to be
writable.

For anonymous pages there should be absolutely no change: if an
anonymous page is not exclusive, it could not have been mapped writable --
because only exclusive anonymous pages can be mapped writable.

However, there *might* be a change for writable shared mappings that
require writenotify: if they are not dirty, we cannot map them writable.
While it might not matter in practice, we'd need a different way to
identify whether writenotify is actually required -- and ordinary mprotect
would benefit from that as well.

Note that we don't optimize for the actual migration case:
(1) When migration succeeds the new PTE will not be writable because the
    source PTE was not writable (protnone); in the future we
    might just optimize that case similarly by reusing
    can_change_pte_writable()/can_change_pmd_writable() when removing
    migration PTEs.
(2) When migration fails, we'd have to recalculate the "writable" flag
    because we temporarily dropped the PT lock; for now keep it simple and
    set "writable=false".

We'll remove all savedwrite leftovers next.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221108174652.198904-6-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-11-30 15:58:49 -08:00
arch Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-stable 2022-11-30 14:58:42 -08:00
block block-6.1-2022-11-05 2022-11-05 09:02:28 -07:00
certs certs: make system keyring depend on built-in x509 parser 2022-09-24 04:31:18 +09:00
crypto treewide: use get_random_bytes() when possible 2022-10-11 17:42:58 -06:00
Documentation mm,thp,rmap: subpages_mapcount COMPOUND_MAPPED if PMD-mapped 2022-11-30 15:58:48 -08:00
drivers Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-stable 2022-11-30 14:58:42 -08:00
fs Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-stable 2022-11-30 14:58:42 -08:00
include mm/autonuma: use can_change_(pte|pmd)_writable() to replace savedwrite 2022-11-30 15:58:49 -08:00
init init: Kconfig: fix spelling mistake "satify" -> "satisfy" 2022-10-20 21:27:22 -07:00
io_uring io_uring: unlock if __io_run_local_work locked inside 2022-10-27 09:52:12 -06:00
ipc ipc/shm: call underlying open/close vm_ops 2022-11-22 18:50:42 -08:00
kernel percpu_counter: add percpu_counter_sum_all interface 2022-11-30 15:58:40 -08:00
lib maple_tree: mte_set_full() and mte_clear_full() clang-analyzer clean up 2022-11-30 15:58:41 -08:00
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mm mm/autonuma: use can_change_(pte|pmd)_writable() to replace savedwrite 2022-11-30 15:58:49 -08:00
net Networking fixes for 6.1-rc4, including fixes from bluetooth and 2022-11-03 10:51:59 -07:00
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MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-stable 2022-11-30 14:58:42 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.1-rc4 2022-11-06 15:07:11 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.