Re: [PATCH v3 6/9] mm, hugetlb: do not use a page in page cache for cow optimization

[Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> wrote:
> Currently, we use a page with mapped count 1 in page cache for cow
> optimization. If we find this condition, we don't allocate a new
> page and copy contents. Instead, we map this page directly.
> This may introduce a problem that writting to private mapping overwrite
> hugetlb file directly. You can find this situation with following code.
>
>         size = 20 * MB;
>         flag = MAP_SHARED;
>         p = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, flag, fd, 0);
>         if (p == MAP_FAILED) {
>                 fprintf(stderr, "mmap() failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
>                 return -1;
>         }
>         p[0] = 's';
>         fprintf(stdout, "BEFORE STEAL PRIVATE WRITE: %c\n", p[0]);
>         munmap(p, size);
>
>         flag = MAP_PRIVATE;
>         p = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, flag, fd, 0);
>         if (p == MAP_FAILED) {
>                 fprintf(stderr, "mmap() failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
>         }
>         p[0] = 'c';
>         munmap(p, size);
>
>         flag = MAP_SHARED;
>         p = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, flag, fd, 0);
>         if (p == MAP_FAILED) {
>                 fprintf(stderr, "mmap() failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
>                 return -1;
>         }
>         fprintf(stdout, "AFTER STEAL PRIVATE WRITE: %c\n", p[0]);
>         munmap(p, size);
>
> We can see that "AFTER STEAL PRIVATE WRITE: c", not "AFTER STEAL
> PRIVATE WRITE: s". If we turn off this optimization to a page
> in page cache, the problem is disappeared.
>
> So, I change the trigger condition of optimization. If this page is not
> AnonPage, we don't do optimization. This makes this optimization turning
> off for a page cache.
>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
> Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>

> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> index 2e52afea..1f6b3a6 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -2511,7 +2511,6 @@ static int hugetlb_cow(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  {
>         struct hstate *h = hstate_vma(vma);
>         struct page *old_page, *new_page;
> -       int avoidcopy;
>         int outside_reserve = 0;
>         unsigned long mmun_start;       /* For mmu_notifiers */
>         unsigned long mmun_end;         /* For mmu_notifiers */
> @@ -2521,10 +2520,8 @@ static int hugetlb_cow(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  retry_avoidcopy:
>         /* If no-one else is actually using this page, avoid the copy
>          * and just make the page writable */
> -       avoidcopy = (page_mapcount(old_page) == 1);
> -       if (avoidcopy) {
> -               if (PageAnon(old_page))
> -                       page_move_anon_rmap(old_page, vma, address);
> +       if (page_mapcount(old_page) == 1 && PageAnon(old_page)) {
> +               page_move_anon_rmap(old_page, vma, address);
>                 set_huge_ptep_writable(vma, address, ptep);
>                 return 0;
>         }
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>

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