[PATCH] mm: tracking shared dirty pages
Tracking of dirty pages in shared writeable mmap()s.
The idea is simple: write protect clean shared writeable pages, catch the
write-fault, make writeable and set dirty. On page write-back clean all the
PTE dirty bits and write protect them once again.
The implementation is a tad harder, mainly because the default
backing_dev_info capabilities were too loosely maintained. Hence it is not
enough to test the backing_dev_info for cap_account_dirty.
The current heuristic is as follows, a VMA is eligible when:
- its shared writeable
(vm_flags & (VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED)) == (VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED)
- it is not a 'special' mapping
(vm_flags & (VM_PFNMAP|VM_INSERTPAGE)) == 0
- the backing_dev_info is cap_account_dirty
mapping_cap_account_dirty(vma->vm_file->f_mapping)
- f_op->mmap() didn't change the default page protection
Page from remap_pfn_range() are explicitly excluded because their COW
semantics are already horrid enough (see vm_normal_page() in do_wp_page()) and
because they don't have a backing store anyway.
mprotect() is taught about the new behaviour as well. However it overrides
the last condition.
Cleaning the pages on write-back is done with page_mkclean() a new rmap call.
It can be called on any page, but is currently only implemented for mapped
pages, if the page is found the be of a VMA that accounts dirty pages it will
also wrprotect the PTE.
Finally, in fs/buffers.c:try_to_free_buffers(); remove clear_page_dirty() from
under ->private_lock. This seems to be safe, since ->private_lock is used to
serialize access to the buffers, not the page itself. This is needed because
clear_page_dirty() will call into page_mkclean() and would thereby violate
locking order.
[dhowells@redhat.com: Provide a page_mkclean() implementation for NOMMU]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index d799d89..8507ee9 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -1105,12 +1105,6 @@
goto free_vma;
}
- /* Don't make the VMA automatically writable if it's shared, but the
- * backer wishes to know when pages are first written to */
- if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->page_mkwrite)
- vma->vm_page_prot =
- protection_map[vm_flags & (VM_READ|VM_WRITE|VM_EXEC)];
-
/* We set VM_ACCOUNT in a shared mapping's vm_flags, to inform
* shmem_zero_setup (perhaps called through /dev/zero's ->mmap)
* that memory reservation must be checked; but that reservation
@@ -1128,6 +1122,10 @@
pgoff = vma->vm_pgoff;
vm_flags = vma->vm_flags;
+ if (vma_wants_writenotify(vma))
+ vma->vm_page_prot =
+ protection_map[vm_flags & (VM_READ|VM_WRITE|VM_EXEC)];
+
if (!file || !vma_merge(mm, prev, addr, vma->vm_end,
vma->vm_flags, NULL, file, pgoff, vma_policy(vma))) {
file = vma->vm_file;
