[SRU][N:gke][PATCH 014/106] mm/memory: ignore dirty/accessed/soft-dirty bits in folio_pte_batch()
Tim Whisonant
tim.whisonant at canonical.com
Mon Jul 21 16:20:57 UTC 2025
From: David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com>
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2059316
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2117098
Let's always ignore the accessed/young bit: we'll always mark the PTE as
old in our child process during fork, and upcoming users will similarly
not care.
Ignore the dirty bit only if we don't want to duplicate the dirty bit into
the child process during fork. Maybe, we could just set all PTEs in the
child dirty if any PTE is dirty. For now, let's keep the behavior
unchanged, this can be optimized later if required.
Ignore the soft-dirty bit only if the bit doesn't have any meaning in the
src vma, and similarly won't have any in the copied dst vma.
For now, we won't bother with the uffd-wp bit.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240129124649.189745-15-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts at arm.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou at eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev at linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti at rivosinc.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger at linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen at kernel.org>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer at linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca at linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy at infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao at linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at dabbelt.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley at sifive.com>
Cc: Russell King (Oracle) <linux at armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens at linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor at linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit 25365e10699aa0e320345d019194fbea9f37a4ae)
Signed-off-by: dann frazier <dann.frazier at canonical.com>
Acked-by: Brad Figg <bfigg at nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Noah Wager <noah.wager at canonical.com>
Acked-by: Jacob Martin <jacob.martin at canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Brad Figg <bfigg at nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Whisonant <tim.whisonant at canonical.com>
---
mm/memory.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 1b210426dda5e..59c2fc51553a3 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -953,24 +953,44 @@ static __always_inline void __copy_present_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma,
set_ptes(dst_vma->vm_mm, addr, dst_pte, pte, nr);
}
+/* Flags for folio_pte_batch(). */
+typedef int __bitwise fpb_t;
+
+/* Compare PTEs after pte_mkclean(), ignoring the dirty bit. */
+#define FPB_IGNORE_DIRTY ((__force fpb_t)BIT(0))
+
+/* Compare PTEs after pte_clear_soft_dirty(), ignoring the soft-dirty bit. */
+#define FPB_IGNORE_SOFT_DIRTY ((__force fpb_t)BIT(1))
+
+static inline pte_t __pte_batch_clear_ignored(pte_t pte, fpb_t flags)
+{
+ if (flags & FPB_IGNORE_DIRTY)
+ pte = pte_mkclean(pte);
+ if (likely(flags & FPB_IGNORE_SOFT_DIRTY))
+ pte = pte_clear_soft_dirty(pte);
+ return pte_mkold(pte);
+}
+
/*
* Detect a PTE batch: consecutive (present) PTEs that map consecutive
* pages of the same folio.
*
- * All PTEs inside a PTE batch have the same PTE bits set, excluding the PFN.
+ * All PTEs inside a PTE batch have the same PTE bits set, excluding the PFN,
+ * the accessed bit, dirty bit (with FPB_IGNORE_DIRTY) and soft-dirty bit
+ * (with FPB_IGNORE_SOFT_DIRTY).
*/
static inline int folio_pte_batch(struct folio *folio, unsigned long addr,
- pte_t *start_ptep, pte_t pte, int max_nr)
+ pte_t *start_ptep, pte_t pte, int max_nr, fpb_t flags)
{
unsigned long folio_end_pfn = folio_pfn(folio) + folio_nr_pages(folio);
const pte_t *end_ptep = start_ptep + max_nr;
- pte_t expected_pte = pte_next_pfn(pte);
+ pte_t expected_pte = __pte_batch_clear_ignored(pte_next_pfn(pte), flags);
pte_t *ptep = start_ptep + 1;
VM_WARN_ON_FOLIO(!pte_present(pte), folio);
while (ptep != end_ptep) {
- pte = ptep_get(ptep);
+ pte = __pte_batch_clear_ignored(ptep_get(ptep), flags);
if (!pte_same(pte, expected_pte))
break;
@@ -1004,6 +1024,7 @@ copy_present_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma, struct vm_area_struct *src_vma
{
struct page *page;
struct folio *folio;
+ fpb_t flags = 0;
int err, nr;
page = vm_normal_page(src_vma, addr, pte);
@@ -1018,7 +1039,12 @@ copy_present_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma, struct vm_area_struct *src_vma
* by keeping the batching logic separate.
*/
if (unlikely(!*prealloc && folio_test_large(folio) && max_nr != 1)) {
- nr = folio_pte_batch(folio, addr, src_pte, pte, max_nr);
+ if (src_vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)
+ flags |= FPB_IGNORE_DIRTY;
+ if (!vma_soft_dirty_enabled(src_vma))
+ flags |= FPB_IGNORE_SOFT_DIRTY;
+
+ nr = folio_pte_batch(folio, addr, src_pte, pte, max_nr, flags);
folio_ref_add(folio, nr);
if (folio_test_anon(folio)) {
if (unlikely(folio_try_dup_anon_rmap_ptes(folio, page,
--
2.43.0
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