Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Sun, 30 Apr 2006 19:30:05 +0200 | From | blaisorblade@yahoo ... | Subject | [patch 12/14] remap_file_pages protection support: also set VM_NONLINEAR on nonuniform VMAs |
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From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
To simplify the VM code, and to reflect expected application usage, we decide to also set VM_NONLINEAR when setting VM_MANYPROTS. Otherwise, we'd have to possibly save nonlinear PTEs even on paths which cope with linear VMAs. It's possible, but intrusive (it's done in one of the next patches).
Obviously, this has a performance cost, since we potentially have to handle a linear VMA with nonlinear handling code. But I didn't know of any application which might have this usage.
XXX: update: glibc wants to replace mprotect() with linear VM_MANYPROTS areas, to handle guard pages and data mappings of shared objects.
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Index: linux-2.6.git/mm/fremap.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.git.orig/mm/fremap.c +++ linux-2.6.git/mm/fremap.c @@ -206,8 +206,9 @@ retry: if (!vma->vm_private_data || (vma->vm_flags & VM_NONLINEAR)) { /* Must set VM_NONLINEAR before any pages are populated. */ - if (pgoff != linear_page_index(vma, start) && - !(vma->vm_flags & VM_NONLINEAR)) { + if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_NONLINEAR) && + (pgoff != linear_page_index(vma, start) || + pgprot_val(pgprot) != pgprot_val(vma->vm_page_prot))) { if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)) goto out_unlock; if (!has_write_lock) { @@ -224,19 +225,19 @@ retry: vma_nonlinear_insert(vma, &mapping->i_mmap_nonlinear); flush_dcache_mmap_unlock(mapping); spin_unlock(&mapping->i_mmap_lock); - } - if (pgprot_val(pgprot) != pgprot_val(vma->vm_page_prot) && - !(vma->vm_flags & VM_MANYPROTS)) { - if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)) - goto out_unlock; - if (!has_write_lock) { - up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); - down_write(&mm->mmap_sem); - has_write_lock = 1; - goto retry; + if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_MANYPROTS) && + pgprot_val(pgprot) != pgprot_val(vma->vm_page_prot)) { + if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)) + goto out_unlock; + if (!has_write_lock) { + up_read(&mm->mmap_sem); + down_write(&mm->mmap_sem); + has_write_lock = 1; + goto retry; + } + vma->vm_flags |= VM_MANYPROTS; } - vma->vm_flags |= VM_MANYPROTS; } err = vma->vm_ops->populate(vma, start, size, pgprot, pgoff, -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!". Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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