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Commit 1462c52e authored by David Hildenbrand's avatar David Hildenbrand Committed by Andrew Morton
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mm/huge_memory: conditionally call maybe_mkwrite() and drop pte_wrprotect() in...

mm/huge_memory: conditionally call maybe_mkwrite() and drop pte_wrprotect() in __split_huge_pmd_locked()

No need to call maybe_mkwrite() to then wrprotect if the source PMD was not
writable.

It's worth nothing that this now allows for PTEs to be writable even if
the source PMD was not writable: if vma->vm_page_prot includes write
permissions.

As documented in commit 931298e1 ("mm/userfaultfd: rely on
vma->vm_page_prot in uffd_wp_range()"), any mechanism that intends to
have pages wrprotected (COW, writenotify, mprotect, uffd-wp, softdirty,
...) has to properly adjust vma->vm_page_prot upfront, to not include
write permissions. If vma->vm_page_prot includes write permissions, the
PTE/PMD can be writable as default.

This now mimics the handling in mm/migrate.c:remove_migration_pte() and in
mm/huge_memory.c:remove_migration_pmd(), which has been in place for a
long time (except that 96a9c287 ("mm/migrate: fix wrongly apply write
bit after mkdirty on sparc64") temporarily changed it).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230411142512.438404-7-david@redhat.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent 5436d655
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