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Fix ZERO_PAGE breakage with vmware 

Commit 89f5b7da2a ("Reinstate ZERO_PAGE
optimization in 'get_user_pages()' and fix XIP") broke vmware, as
reported by Jeff Chua:

  "This broke vmware 6.0.4.
   Jun 22 14:53:03.845: vmx| NOT_IMPLEMENTED
   /build/mts/release/bora-93057/bora/vmx/main/vmmonPosix.c:774"

and the reason seems to be that there's an old bug in how we handle do
FOLL_ANON on VM_SHARED areas in get_user_pages(), but since it only
triggered if the whole page table was missing, nobody had apparently hit
it before.

The recent changes to 'follow_page()' made the FOLL_ANON logic trigger
not just for whole missing page tables, but for individual pages as
well, and exposed this problem.

This fixes it by making the test for when FOLL_ANON is used more
careful, and also makes the code easier to read and understand by moving
the logic to a separate inline function.

Reported-and-tested-by: Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Linus Torvalds 2008-06-23 11:21:37 -07:00
parent 96a331b1d6
commit 672ca28e30
1 changed files with 21 additions and 2 deletions
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mm/memory.c
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@ -1045,6 +1045,26 @@ no_page_table:
return page;
}
/* Can we do the FOLL_ANON optimization? */
static inline int use_zero_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
/*
* We don't want to optimize FOLL_ANON for make_pages_present()
* when it tries to page in a VM_LOCKED region. As to VM_SHARED,
* we want to get the page from the page tables to make sure
* that we serialize and update with any other user of that
* mapping.
*/
if (vma->vm_flags & (VM_LOCKED | VM_SHARED))
return 0;
/*
* And if we have a fault or a nopfn routine, it's not an
* anonymous region.
*/
return !vma->vm_ops ||
(!vma->vm_ops->fault && !vma->vm_ops->nopfn);
}
int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
unsigned long start, int len, int write, int force,
struct page **pages, struct vm_area_struct **vmas)
@ -1119,8 +1139,7 @@ int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
foll_flags = FOLL_TOUCH;
if (pages)
foll_flags |= FOLL_GET;
if (!write && !(vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) &&
(!vma->vm_ops || !vma->vm_ops->fault))
if (!write && use_zero_page(vma))
foll_flags |= FOLL_ANON;
do {