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Commit 292924b2 authored by Peter Xu's avatar Peter Xu Committed by Linus Torvalds
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userfaultfd: wp: apply _PAGE_UFFD_WP bit



Firstly, introduce two new flags MM_CP_UFFD_WP[_RESOLVE] for
change_protection() when used with uffd-wp and make sure the two new flags
are exclusively used.  Then,

  - For MM_CP_UFFD_WP: apply the _PAGE_UFFD_WP bit and remove _PAGE_RW
    when a range of memory is write protected by uffd

  - For MM_CP_UFFD_WP_RESOLVE: remove the _PAGE_UFFD_WP bit and recover
    _PAGE_RW when write protection is resolved from userspace

And use this new interface in mwriteprotect_range() to replace the old
MM_CP_DIRTY_ACCT.

Do this change for both PTEs and huge PMDs.  Then we can start to identify
which PTE/PMD is write protected by general (e.g., COW or soft dirty
tracking), and which is for userfaultfd-wp.

Since we should keep the _PAGE_UFFD_WP when doing pte_modify(), add it
into _PAGE_CHG_MASK as well.  Meanwhile, since we have this new bit, we
can be even more strict when detecting uffd-wp page faults in either
do_wp_page() or wp_huge_pmd().

After we're with _PAGE_UFFD_WP, a special case is when a page is both
protected by the general COW logic and also userfault-wp.  Here the
userfault-wp will have higher priority and will be handled first.  Only
after the uffd-wp bit is cleared on the PTE/PMD will we continue to handle
the general COW.  These are the steps on what will happen with such a
page:

  1. CPU accesses write protected shared page (so both protected by
     general COW and uffd-wp), blocked by uffd-wp first because in
     do_wp_page we'll handle uffd-wp first, so it has higher priority
     than general COW.

  2. Uffd service thread receives the request, do UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT
     to remove the uffd-wp bit upon the PTE/PMD.  However here we
     still keep the write bit cleared.  Notify the blocked CPU.

  3. The blocked CPU resumes the page fault process with a fault
     retry, during retry it'll notice it was not with the uffd-wp bit
     this time but it is still write protected by general COW, then
     it'll go though the COW path in the fault handler, copy the page,
     apply write bit where necessary, and retry again.

  4. The CPU will be able to access this page with write bit set.

Suggested-by: default avatarAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Bobby Powers <bobbypowers@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Maya Gokhale <gokhale2@llnl.gov>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Marty McFadden <mcfadden8@llnl.gov>
Cc: Denis Plotnikov <dplotnikov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200220163112.11409-8-peterx@redhat.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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