On Mon 29-04-19 12:26:41, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote:
> From: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgold...@suse.com>
>
> We replace the existing entry to the newly allocated one
> in case of CoW. Also, we mark the entry as PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE
> so writeback marks this entry as writeprotected. This
> helps us snapshots so new write pagefaults after snapshots
> trigger a CoW.
I don't understand why do you need to mark the new entry with
PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE. dax_insert_entry() will unmap the entry from all
page tables so what's there left to writeprotect?
> /*
> * By this point grab_mapping_entry() has ensured that we have a locked entry
> * of the appropriate size so we don't have to worry about downgrading PMDs
> to
> @@ -709,14 +712,17 @@ static int copy_user_dax(struct block_device *bdev,
> struct dax_device *dax_dev,
> */
> static void *dax_insert_entry(struct xa_state *xas,
> struct address_space *mapping, struct vm_fault *vmf,
> - void *entry, pfn_t pfn, unsigned long flags, bool dirty)
> + void *entry, pfn_t pfn, unsigned long flags,
> + unsigned long insert_flags)
> {
> void *new_entry = dax_make_entry(pfn, flags);
> + bool dirty = insert_flags & DAX_IF_DIRTY;
> + bool cow = insert_flags & DAX_IF_COW;
Does 'cow' really need to be a separate flag? dax_insert_entry() can just
figure out the right thing to do on its own based on old entry value and
new entry to be inserted...
>
> if (dirty)
> __mark_inode_dirty(mapping->host, I_DIRTY_PAGES);
>
> - if (dax_is_zero_entry(entry) && !(flags & DAX_ZERO_PAGE)) {
> + if (cow || (dax_is_zero_entry(entry) && !(flags & DAX_ZERO_PAGE))) {
E.g. here we need to unmap if old entry is not 'empty' and the pfns differ
(well, the pfns differ check should better be done like I outline below to
make pmd + pte match work correctly).
> unsigned long index = xas->xa_index;
> /* we are replacing a zero page with block mapping */
> if (dax_is_pmd_entry(entry))
> @@ -728,12 +734,12 @@ static void *dax_insert_entry(struct xa_state *xas,
>
> xas_reset(xas);
> xas_lock_irq(xas);
> - if (dax_entry_size(entry) != dax_entry_size(new_entry)) {
> + if (cow || (dax_entry_size(entry) != dax_entry_size(new_entry))) {
This needs to be done if entries are different at all...
> dax_disassociate_entry(entry, mapping, false);
> dax_associate_entry(new_entry, mapping, vmf->vma, vmf->address);
> }
>
> - if (dax_is_zero_entry(entry) || dax_is_empty_entry(entry)) {
> + if (cow || dax_is_zero_entry(entry) || dax_is_empty_entry(entry)) {
This is the only place that will be a bit more subtle - you need to check
whether the new entry is not a subset of the old one (i.e., a PTE inside a
PMD) and skip setting in that case. So something like:
if (xa_to_value(new_entry) | DAX_LOCKED == xa_to_value(entry) ||
(dax_is_pmd_entry(entry) && dax_is_pte_entry(new_entry) &&
dax_to_pfn(entry) + (xas->xa_index & PG_PMD_COLOUR) ==
dax_to_pfn(new_entry))) {
/* New entry is a subset of the current one? Skip update... */
xas_load(xas);
} else {
do work...
}
Honza
--
Jan Kara <j...@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR
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