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SubjectRe: [PATCH v9 06/24] mm: make pte_unmap_same compatible with SPF
On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 01:40:18PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Apr 2018, Jerome Glisse wrote:
>
> > > diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> > > index 21b1212a0892..4bc7b0bdcb40 100644
> > > --- a/mm/memory.c
> > > +++ b/mm/memory.c
> > > @@ -2309,21 +2309,29 @@ static bool pte_map_lock(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> > > * parts, do_swap_page must check under lock before unmapping the pte and
> > > * proceeding (but do_wp_page is only called after already making such a check;
> > > * and do_anonymous_page can safely check later on).
> > > + *
> > > + * pte_unmap_same() returns:
> > > + * 0 if the PTE are the same
> > > + * VM_FAULT_PTNOTSAME if the PTE are different
> > > + * VM_FAULT_RETRY if the VMA has changed in our back during
> > > + * a speculative page fault handling.
> > > */

[...]

> > >
> >
> > This change what do_swap_page() returns ie before it was returning 0
> > when locked pte lookup was different from orig_pte. After this patch
> > it returns VM_FAULT_PTNOTSAME but this is a new return value for
> > handle_mm_fault() (the do_swap_page() return value is what ultimately
> > get return by handle_mm_fault())
> >
> > Do we really want that ? This might confuse some existing user of
> > handle_mm_fault() and i am not sure of the value of that information
> > to caller.
> >
> > Note i do understand that you want to return retry if anything did
> > change from underneath and thus need to differentiate from when the
> > pte value are not the same.
> >
>
> I think VM_FAULT_RETRY should be handled appropriately for any user of
> handle_mm_fault() already, and would be surprised to learn differently.
> Khugepaged has the appropriate handling. I think the concern is whether a
> user is handling anything other than VM_FAULT_RETRY and VM_FAULT_ERROR
> (which VM_FAULT_PTNOTSAME is not set in)? I haven't done a full audit of
> the users.

I am not worried about VM_FAULT_RETRY and barely have any worry about
VM_FAULT_PTNOTSAME either as they are other comparable new return value
(VM_FAULT_NEEDDSYNC for instance which is quite recent).

I wonder if adding a new value is really needed here. I don't see any
value to it for caller of handle_mm_fault() except for stats.

Note that I am not oppose, but while today we have free bits, maybe
tomorrow we will run out, i am always worried about thing like that :)

Cheers,
Jérôme

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