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Subject[patch 13/18] remap_file_pages protection support: optimize install_file_pte and avoid redundant pte_file PTE's
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From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>

For linear uniform shared VMA's, there is no need to install pte_file PTEs to
remember the offset. For private ones, the same holds for absent and pte_file
PTEs, while existing ones must be left there.

I've also added some warnings on the path which used to cope with such PTE's.
I expect to remove that path soon, and I've never seen that warning triggering
during testing.

If we're going to refuse remap_file_pages() and MAP_POPULATE on private VMA,
this patch may be further simplified.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
---

linux-2.6.git-paolo/mm/fremap.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
linux-2.6.git-paolo/mm/memory.c | 5 +++++
2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN mm/fremap.c~rfp-linear-optim-v4 mm/fremap.c
--- linux-2.6.git/mm/fremap.c~rfp-linear-optim-v4 2005-08-25 12:59:23.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.git-paolo/mm/fremap.c 2005-08-25 12:59:23.000000000 +0200
@@ -129,6 +129,12 @@ int install_file_pte(struct mm_struct *m

BUG_ON(!uniform && !(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED));

+ /* We're being called by mmap(MAP_NONBLOCK|MAP_POPULATE) on an uniform
+ * shared VMA. So don't need to take the lock, and to install a PTE for
+ * the page we'd fault in anyway. */
+ if (uniform && (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED))
+ return 0;
+
pgd = pgd_offset(mm, addr);
spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);

@@ -150,14 +156,18 @@ int install_file_pte(struct mm_struct *m
if (uniform && pte_none(*pte))
goto err_unlock;

+ err = 0;
zap_pte(mm, vma, addr, pte);

+ /* I don't want at all to install useless pte_file pte's for private
+ * mappings. */
+ if (unlikely(uniform))
+ goto err_unlock;
+
set_pte_at(mm, addr, pte, pgoff_prot_to_pte(pgoff, pgprot));
pte_val = *pte;
pte_unmap(pte);
update_mmu_cache(vma, addr, pte_val);
- spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
- return 0;

err_unlock:
spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
diff -puN mm/memory.c~rfp-linear-optim-v4 mm/memory.c
--- linux-2.6.git/mm/memory.c~rfp-linear-optim-v4 2005-08-25 12:59:23.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.git-paolo/mm/memory.c 2005-08-25 12:59:23.000000000 +0200
@@ -1983,10 +1983,15 @@ static int do_file_page(struct mm_struct
/*
* Fall back to the linear mapping if the fs does not support
* ->populate; in this case do the protection checks.
+ * Could have been installed by install_file_pte, for a MAP_NONBLOCK
+ * pagetable population.
*/
if (!vma->vm_ops->populate ||
((access_mask & (VM_WRITE|VM_MAYWRITE)) &&
!(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED))) {
+ /* remap_file_pages should disallow this, now that
+ * install_file_pte skips linear ones. */
+ WARN_ON(1);
/* We're behaving as if pte_file was cleared, so check
* protections like in handle_pte_fault. */
if (check_perms(vma, access_mask))
_
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