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mlock: avoid dirtying pages and triggering writeback 

When faulting in pages for mlock(), we want to break COW for anonymous or
file pages within VM_WRITABLE, non-VM_SHARED vmas.  However, there is no
need to write-fault into VM_SHARED vmas since shared file pages can be
mlocked first and dirtied later, when/if they actually get written to.
Skipping the write fault is desirable, as we don't want to unnecessarily
cause these pages to be dirtied and queued for writeback.

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Kosaki Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@google.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Michel Lespinasse 2011-01-13 15:46:09 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 72ddc8f722
commit 5ecfda041e
2 changed files with 12 additions and 2 deletions
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mm/memory.c
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@ -3299,7 +3299,12 @@ int make_pages_present(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end)
vma = find_vma(current->mm, addr);
if (!vma)
return -ENOMEM;
write = (vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE) != 0;
/*
* We want to touch writable mappings with a write fault in order
* to break COW, except for shared mappings because these don't COW
* and we would not want to dirty them for nothing.
*/
write = (vma->vm_flags & (VM_WRITE | VM_SHARED)) == VM_WRITE;
BUG_ON(addr >= end);
BUG_ON(end > vma->vm_end);
len = DIV_ROUND_UP(end, PAGE_SIZE) - addr/PAGE_SIZE;

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mm/mlock.c
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@ -171,7 +171,12 @@ static long __mlock_vma_pages_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
VM_BUG_ON(!rwsem_is_locked(&mm->mmap_sem));
gup_flags = FOLL_TOUCH | FOLL_GET;
if (vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE)
/*
* We want to touch writable mappings with a write fault in order
* to break COW, except for shared mappings because these don't COW
* and we would not want to dirty them for nothing.
*/
if ((vma->vm_flags & (VM_WRITE | VM_SHARED)) == VM_WRITE)
gup_flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
/* We don't try to access the guard page of a stack vma */