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[PATCH] mm: tracking shared dirty pages

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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>
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Peter Zijlstra 2006-09-25 23:30:57 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit d08b3851da
8 changed files with 162 additions and 30 deletions
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include/linux/rmap.h
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@ -103,6 +103,14 @@ pte_t *page_check_address(struct page *, struct mm_struct *,
*/
unsigned long page_address_in_vma(struct page *, struct vm_area_struct *);
/*
* Cleans the PTEs of shared mappings.
* (and since clean PTEs should also be readonly, write protects them too)
*
* returns the number of cleaned PTEs.
*/
int page_mkclean(struct page *);
#else /* !CONFIG_MMU */
#define anon_vma_init() do {} while (0)
@ -112,6 +120,12 @@ unsigned long page_address_in_vma(struct page *, struct vm_area_struct *);
#define page_referenced(page,l) TestClearPageReferenced(page)
#define try_to_unmap(page, refs) SWAP_FAIL
static inline int page_mkclean(struct page *page)
{
return 0;
}
#endif /* CONFIG_MMU */
/*