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authorJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>2013-09-11 14:21:04 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-09-11 15:57:27 -0700
commit37a2140dc2145a6f154172286944a1861e978dfd (patch)
tree8efc5e90bd85c02adc5915b22e1c9d57ba9e1d03 /mm/hugetlb.c
parentc0d934ba278935fa751057091fe4a7c02d814f68 (diff)
mm, hugetlb: do not use a page in page cache for cow optimization
Currently, we use a page with mapped count 1 in page cache for cow optimization. If we find this condition, we don't allocate a new page and copy contents. Instead, we map this page directly. This may introduce a problem that writting to private mapping overwrite hugetlb file directly. You can find this situation with following code. size = 20 * MB; flag = MAP_SHARED; p = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, flag, fd, 0); if (p == MAP_FAILED) { fprintf(stderr, "mmap() failed: %s\n", strerror(errno)); return -1; } p[0] = 's'; fprintf(stdout, "BEFORE STEAL PRIVATE WRITE: %c\n", p[0]); munmap(p, size); flag = MAP_PRIVATE; p = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, flag, fd, 0); if (p == MAP_FAILED) { fprintf(stderr, "mmap() failed: %s\n", strerror(errno)); } p[0] = 'c'; munmap(p, size); flag = MAP_SHARED; p = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, flag, fd, 0); if (p == MAP_FAILED) { fprintf(stderr, "mmap() failed: %s\n", strerror(errno)); return -1; } fprintf(stdout, "AFTER STEAL PRIVATE WRITE: %c\n", p[0]); munmap(p, size); We can see that "AFTER STEAL PRIVATE WRITE: c", not "AFTER STEAL PRIVATE WRITE: s". If we turn off this optimization to a page in page cache, the problem is disappeared. So, I change the trigger condition of optimization. If this page is not AnonPage, we don't do optimization. This makes this optimization turning off for a page cache. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/hugetlb.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/hugetlb.c7
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index a13be48b818b..da027a3307af 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -2528,7 +2528,6 @@ static int hugetlb_cow(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
{
struct hstate *h = hstate_vma(vma);
struct page *old_page, *new_page;
- int avoidcopy;
int outside_reserve = 0;
unsigned long mmun_start; /* For mmu_notifiers */
unsigned long mmun_end; /* For mmu_notifiers */
@@ -2538,10 +2537,8 @@ static int hugetlb_cow(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
retry_avoidcopy:
/* If no-one else is actually using this page, avoid the copy
* and just make the page writable */
- avoidcopy = (page_mapcount(old_page) == 1);
- if (avoidcopy) {
- if (PageAnon(old_page))
- page_move_anon_rmap(old_page, vma, address);
+ if (page_mapcount(old_page) == 1 && PageAnon(old_page)) {
+ page_move_anon_rmap(old_page, vma, address);
set_huge_ptep_writable(vma, address, ptep);
return 0;
}