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SubjectRe: [PATCH v1] selftests: mm: gup_longterm: test unsharing logic when R/O pinning
On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 03:15:08PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> In our FOLL_LONGTERM tests, we prefault the page tables for the GUP-fast
> test cases to be able to find a PTE and exercise the "longterm pinning
> allowed" logic on the GUP-fast path where possible.
>
> For now, we always prefault the page tables writable, resulting in PTEs
> that are writable.
>
> Let's cover more cases to also test if our unsharing logic works as
> expected (and is able to make progress when there is nothing to unshare)
> by mprotect'ing the range R/O when R/O-pinning, so we don't get PTEs
> that are writable.
>
> This change would have found an issue introduced by commit a12083d721d7
> ("mm/gup: handle hugepd for follow_page()"), whereby R/O pinning was not
> able to make progress in all cases, because unsharing logic was not
> provided with the VMA to decide at some point that long-term R/O pinning
> a !anon page is fine.
>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>

Thanks,

--
Peter Xu


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