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authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>2006-09-25 23:30:57 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-09-26 08:48:44 -0700
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parent725d704ecaca4a43f067092c140d4f3271cf2856 (diff)
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[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mmap.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/mmap.c10
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index d799d896d74a..8507ee9cd573 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -1105,12 +1105,6 @@ munmap_back:
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 @@ munmap_back:
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;