Re: [PATCH 1/7] mm: Set the pte dirty if the folio is already dirty

[David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>]

On 17.02.25 20:08, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> If the first access to a folio is a read that is then followed by a
> write, we can save a page fault.  s390 implemented this in their
> mk_pte() in commit abf09bed3cce ("s390/mm: implement software dirty
> bits"), but other architectures can also benefit from this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
> ---
>   arch/s390/include/asm/pgtable.h | 7 +------
>   mm/memory.c                     | 2 ++
>   2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/s390/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/s390/include/asm/pgtable.h
> index 3ca5af4cfe43..3ee495b5171e 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/include/asm/pgtable.h
> +++ b/arch/s390/include/asm/pgtable.h
> @@ -1451,12 +1451,7 @@ static inline pte_t mk_pte_phys(unsigned long physpage, pgprot_t pgprot)
>   
>   static inline pte_t mk_pte(struct page *page, pgprot_t pgprot)
>   {
> -	unsigned long physpage = page_to_phys(page);
> -	pte_t __pte = mk_pte_phys(physpage, pgprot);
> -
> -	if (pte_write(__pte) && PageDirty(page))
> -		__pte = pte_mkdirty(__pte);
> -	return __pte;
> +	return mk_pte_phys(page_to_phys(page), pgprot);
>   }
>   
>   #define pgd_index(address) (((address) >> PGDIR_SHIFT) & (PTRS_PER_PGD-1))
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index 539c0f7c6d54..4330560eee55 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -5124,6 +5124,8 @@ void set_pte_range(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct folio *folio,
>   
>   	if (write)
>   		entry = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry), vma);
> +	else if (pte_write(entry) && folio_test_dirty(folio))
> +		entry = pte_mkdirty(entry);
>   	if (unlikely(vmf_orig_pte_uffd_wp(vmf)))
>   		entry = pte_mkuffd_wp(entry);
>   	/* copy-on-write page */

Yes, that looks sane

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>

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Cheers,

David / dhildenb