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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/4] mm: ZERO_PAGE without PTE_SPECIAL
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:37:20 +0100 (BST)
Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

> Reinstate anonymous use of ZERO_PAGE to all architectures, not just
> to those which __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL: as suggested by Nick Piggin.
>
> Contrary to how I'd imagined it, there's nothing ugly about this, just
> a zero_pfn test built into one or another block of vm_normal_page().
>
> But the MIPS ZERO_PAGE-of-many-colours case demands is_zero_pfn() and
> my_zero_pfn() inlines. Reinstate its mremap move_pte() shuffling of
> ZERO_PAGEs we did from 2.6.17 to 2.6.19? Not unless someone shouts
> for that: it would have to take vm_flags to weed out some cases.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>

Thank you. I like this way.
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>

> ---
> I've not built and tested the actual MIPS case, just hacked up x86
> definitions to simulate it; had to drop the static from zero_pfn.
>
> arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h | 14 +++++++++++
> mm/memory.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++----------
> 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> --- mm2/arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h 2009-09-09 23:13:59.000000000 +0100
> +++ mm3/arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h 2009-09-15 17:32:19.000000000 +0100
> @@ -76,6 +76,20 @@ extern unsigned long zero_page_mask;
> #define ZERO_PAGE(vaddr) \
> (virt_to_page((void *)(empty_zero_page + (((unsigned long)(vaddr)) & zero_page_mask))))
>
> +#define is_zero_pfn is_zero_pfn
> +static inline int is_zero_pfn(unsigned long pfn)
> +{
> + extern unsigned long zero_pfn;
> + unsigned long offset_from_zero_pfn = pfn - zero_pfn;
> + return offset_from_zero_pfn <= (zero_page_mask >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> +}
> +
> +#define my_zero_pfn my_zero_pfn
> +static inline unsigned long my_zero_pfn(unsigned long addr)
> +{
> + return page_to_pfn(ZERO_PAGE(addr));
> +}
> +
> extern void paging_init(void);
>
> /*
> --- mm2/mm/memory.c 2009-09-14 16:34:37.000000000 +0100
> +++ mm3/mm/memory.c 2009-09-15 17:32:19.000000000 +0100
> @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ static int __init disable_randmaps(char
> }
> __setup("norandmaps", disable_randmaps);
>
> -static unsigned long zero_pfn __read_mostly;
> +unsigned long zero_pfn __read_mostly;
>
> /*
> * CONFIG_MMU architectures set up ZERO_PAGE in their paging_init()
> @@ -455,6 +455,20 @@ static inline int is_cow_mapping(unsigne
> return (flags & (VM_SHARED | VM_MAYWRITE)) == VM_MAYWRITE;
> }
>
> +#ifndef is_zero_pfn
> +static inline int is_zero_pfn(unsigned long pfn)
> +{
> + return pfn == zero_pfn;
> +}
> +#endif
> +
> +#ifndef my_zero_pfn
> +static inline unsigned long my_zero_pfn(unsigned long addr)
> +{
> + return zero_pfn;
> +}
> +#endif
> +
> /*
> * vm_normal_page -- This function gets the "struct page" associated with a pte.
> *
> @@ -512,7 +526,7 @@ struct page *vm_normal_page(struct vm_ar
> goto check_pfn;
> if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_PFNMAP | VM_MIXEDMAP))
> return NULL;
> - if (pfn != zero_pfn)
> + if (!is_zero_pfn(pfn))
> print_bad_pte(vma, addr, pte, NULL);
> return NULL;
> }
> @@ -534,6 +548,8 @@ struct page *vm_normal_page(struct vm_ar
> }
> }
>
> + if (is_zero_pfn(pfn))
> + return NULL;
> check_pfn:
> if (unlikely(pfn > highest_memmap_pfn)) {
> print_bad_pte(vma, addr, pte, NULL);
> @@ -1161,7 +1177,7 @@ struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_
> page = vm_normal_page(vma, address, pte);
> if (unlikely(!page)) {
> if ((flags & FOLL_DUMP) ||
> - pte_pfn(pte) != zero_pfn)
> + !is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pte)))
> goto bad_page;
> page = pte_page(pte);
> }
> @@ -1444,10 +1460,6 @@ struct page *get_dump_page(unsigned long
> if (__get_user_pages(current, current->mm, addr, 1,
> FOLL_FORCE | FOLL_DUMP | FOLL_GET, &page, &vma) < 1)
> return NULL;
> - if (page == ZERO_PAGE(0)) {
> - page_cache_release(page);
> - return NULL;
> - }
> flush_cache_page(vma, addr, page_to_pfn(page));
> return page;
> }
> @@ -1630,7 +1642,8 @@ int vm_insert_mixed(struct vm_area_struc
> * If we don't have pte special, then we have to use the pfn_valid()
> * based VM_MIXEDMAP scheme (see vm_normal_page), and thus we *must*
> * refcount the page if pfn_valid is true (hence insert_page rather
> - * than insert_pfn).
> + * than insert_pfn). If a zero_pfn were inserted into a VM_MIXEDMAP
> + * without pte special, it would there be refcounted as a normal page.
> */
> if (!HAVE_PTE_SPECIAL && pfn_valid(pfn)) {
> struct page *page;
> @@ -2098,7 +2111,7 @@ gotten:
> if (unlikely(anon_vma_prepare(vma)))
> goto oom;
>
> - if (pte_pfn(orig_pte) == zero_pfn) {
> + if (is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(orig_pte))) {
> new_page = alloc_zeroed_user_highpage_movable(vma, address);
> if (!new_page)
> goto oom;
> @@ -2613,8 +2626,9 @@ static int do_anonymous_page(struct mm_s
> spinlock_t *ptl;
> pte_t entry;
>
> - if (HAVE_PTE_SPECIAL && !(flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE)) {
> - entry = pte_mkspecial(pfn_pte(zero_pfn, vma->vm_page_prot));
> + if (!(flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE)) {
> + entry = pte_mkspecial(pfn_pte(my_zero_pfn(address),
> + vma->vm_page_prot));
> ptl = pte_lockptr(mm, pmd);
> spin_lock(ptl);
> if (!pte_none(*page_table))
>



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