> Test-case for that would be helpful, as normal malloc()'ed anon memory
> cannot be subject for the bug. Unless I miss something obvious.

I've modified the test-case attached to the bug and now it doesn't use
malloc()'ed memory but file backed mmap shared memory.

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
wrote:

> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 04:56:02PM +0530, Ashish Srivastava wrote:
> > Yes, the original repro was using a custom allocator but I was seeing the
> > issue with malloc'd memory as well on my (ARMv7) platform.
>
> Test-case for that would be helpful, as normal malloc()'ed anon memory
> cannot be subject for the bug. Unless I miss something obvious.
>
> > I agree that the repro code won't reliably work so have modified the
> repro
> > code attached to the bug to use file backed memory.
> >
> > That really is the root cause of the problem. I can make the following
> > change in the kernel that can make the slow writes problem go away.
> > This makes vma_set_page_prot return the value of vma_wants_writenotify to
> > the caller after setting vma->vmpage_prot.
> >
> > In vma_set_page_prot:
> > -void vma_set_page_prot(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> > +bool vma_set_page_prot(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> > {
> >     unsigned long vm_flags = vma->vm_flags;
> >
> >     vma->vm_page_prot = vm_pgprot_modify(vma->vm_page_prot, vm_flags);
> >     if (vma_wants_writenotify(vma)) {
> >         vm_flags &= ~VM_SHARED;
> >         vma->vm_page_prot = vm_pgprot_modify(vma->vm_page_prot,
> >                              vm_flags);
> > +        return 1;
> >      }
> > +    return 0;
> > }
> >
> > In mprotect_fixup:
> >
> >      * held in write mode.
> >       */
> >      vma->vm_flags = newflags;
> > -    dirty_accountable = vma_wants_writenotify(vma);
> > -    vma_set_page_prot(vma);
> > +    dirty_accountable = vma_set_page_prot(vma);
> >
> >      change_protection(vma, start, end, vma->vm_page_prot,
> >                dirty_accountable, 0)
> >
>
> That looks good to me. Please prepare proper patch.
>
> --
>  Kirill A. Shutemov
>