From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
To: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>,
Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 03/23] mm: Check against orig_pte for finish_fault()
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 16:04:09 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Ybry+cBqY71/Y3OT@xz-m1.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2472202.YjDCsHb11M@nvdebian>
On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 06:45:07PM +1100, Alistair Popple wrote:
> On Thursday, 16 December 2021 6:06:54 PM AEDT Peter Xu wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > I wondered how it could have worked - I thought e.g. pte_alloc_one() will
> > always return a pgtable page will all zero-filled, whose allocation should
> > require __GFP_ZERO anyway. But then I quickly noticed that pte_alloc_one() is
> > per-arch too.. That explains, because per-arch can re-initialize the default
> > pte values.
>
> Yes, I have wondered the same things before as well. It's all a little bit of
> fun some of this stuff.
>
> > I thought this patch can greatly simplify things but I overlooked the
> > pte_none() check you mentioned. So it seems I have no good choice but add that
> > flag back.
> >
> > There's another alternative is we do pte_clear() on vmf->orig_pte as the new
> > way to initialize it. I believe it should work too for s390 and xtensa.
> >
> > Any preference?
>
> I prefer the later approach (initialising to pte_clear) as it seems cleaner,
> and pte_none(pte_clear()) is true for every architecture afaik.
Will do.
--
Peter Xu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-16 8:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-15 7:54 [PATCH v6 00/23] userfaultfd-wp: Support shmem and hugetlbfs Peter Xu
2021-11-15 7:55 ` [PATCH v6 01/23] mm: Introduce PTE_MARKER swap entry Peter Xu
2021-12-03 3:30 ` Alistair Popple
2021-12-03 4:21 ` Peter Xu
2021-12-03 5:35 ` Alistair Popple
2021-12-03 6:45 ` Peter Xu
2021-12-07 2:12 ` Alistair Popple
2021-12-07 2:30 ` Peter Xu
2021-11-15 7:55 ` [PATCH v6 02/23] mm: Teach core mm about pte markers Peter Xu
2021-11-15 7:55 ` [PATCH v6 03/23] mm: Check against orig_pte for finish_fault() Peter Xu
2021-12-16 5:01 ` Alistair Popple
2021-12-16 5:38 ` Peter Xu
2021-12-16 5:50 ` Peter Xu
2021-12-16 6:23 ` Alistair Popple
2021-12-16 7:06 ` Peter Xu
2021-12-16 7:45 ` Alistair Popple
2021-12-16 8:04 ` Peter Xu [this message]
2021-11-15 7:55 ` [PATCH v6 04/23] mm/uffd: PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP Peter Xu
2021-12-16 5:18 ` Alistair Popple
2021-12-16 5:45 ` Peter Xu
2021-11-15 7:55 ` [PATCH v6 05/23] mm/shmem: Take care of UFFDIO_COPY_MODE_WP Peter Xu
2021-11-15 7:55 ` [PATCH v6 06/23] mm/shmem: Handle uffd-wp special pte in page fault handler Peter Xu
2021-12-16 5:56 ` Alistair Popple
2021-12-16 6:17 ` Peter Xu
2021-12-16 6:30 ` Alistair Popple
2021-11-15 7:55 ` [PATCH v6 07/23] mm/shmem: Persist uffd-wp bit across zapping for file-backed Peter Xu
2021-11-15 8:00 ` [PATCH v6 08/23] mm/shmem: Allow uffd wr-protect none pte for file-backed mem Peter Xu
2021-11-15 8:00 ` [PATCH v6 09/23] mm/shmem: Allows file-back mem to be uffd wr-protected on thps Peter Xu
2021-11-15 8:01 ` [PATCH v6 10/23] mm/shmem: Handle uffd-wp during fork() Peter Xu
2021-11-15 8:01 ` [PATCH v6 11/23] mm/hugetlb: Introduce huge pte version of uffd-wp helpers Peter Xu
2021-11-15 8:01 ` [PATCH v6 12/23] mm/hugetlb: Hook page faults for uffd write protection Peter Xu
2021-11-15 8:01 ` [PATCH v6 13/23] mm/hugetlb: Take care of UFFDIO_COPY_MODE_WP Peter Xu
2021-11-15 8:02 ` [PATCH v6 14/23] mm/hugetlb: Handle UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT Peter Xu
2021-11-15 8:02 ` [PATCH v6 15/23] mm/hugetlb: Handle pte markers in page faults Peter Xu
2021-11-15 8:02 ` [PATCH v6 16/23] mm/hugetlb: Allow uffd wr-protect none ptes Peter Xu
2021-11-15 8:02 ` [PATCH v6 17/23] mm/hugetlb: Only drop uffd-wp special pte if required Peter Xu
2021-11-15 8:02 ` [PATCH v6 18/23] mm/hugetlb: Handle uffd-wp during fork() Peter Xu
2021-11-15 8:03 ` [PATCH v6 19/23] mm/khugepaged: Don't recycle vma pgtable if uffd-wp registered Peter Xu
2021-11-15 8:03 ` [PATCH v6 20/23] mm/pagemap: Recognize uffd-wp bit for shmem/hugetlbfs Peter Xu
2021-11-15 8:03 ` [PATCH v6 21/23] mm/uffd: Enable write protection for shmem & hugetlbfs Peter Xu
2021-11-15 8:03 ` [PATCH v6 22/23] mm: Enable PTE markers by default Peter Xu
2021-11-15 8:04 ` [PATCH v6 23/23] selftests/uffd: Enable uffd-wp for shmem/hugetlbfs Peter Xu
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