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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/Locking8
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm.h3
-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c43
3 files changed, 50 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
index f91926f2f482..8bb8a7ee0f99 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking
@@ -525,6 +525,7 @@ prototypes:
void (*close)(struct vm_area_struct*);
int (*fault)(struct vm_area_struct*, struct vm_fault *);
int (*page_mkwrite)(struct vm_area_struct *, struct vm_fault *);
+ int (*pfn_mkwrite)(struct vm_area_struct *, struct vm_fault *);
int (*access)(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long, void*, int, int);
locking rules:
@@ -534,6 +535,7 @@ close: yes
fault: yes can return with page locked
map_pages: yes
page_mkwrite: yes can return with page locked
+pfn_mkwrite: yes
access: yes
->fault() is called when a previously not present pte is about
@@ -560,6 +562,12 @@ the page has been truncated, the filesystem should not look up a new page
like the ->fault() handler, but simply return with VM_FAULT_NOPAGE, which
will cause the VM to retry the fault.
+ ->pfn_mkwrite() is the same as page_mkwrite but when the pte is
+VM_PFNMAP or VM_MIXEDMAP with a page-less entry. Expected return is
+VM_FAULT_NOPAGE. Or one of the VM_FAULT_ERROR types. The default behavior
+after this call is to make the pte read-write, unless pfn_mkwrite returns
+an error.
+
->access() is called when get_user_pages() fails in
access_process_vm(), typically used to debug a process through
/proc/pid/mem or ptrace. This function is needed only for
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 0e7bb2194da5..8b086070c3a5 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -251,6 +251,9 @@ struct vm_operations_struct {
* writable, if an error is returned it will cause a SIGBUS */
int (*page_mkwrite)(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf);
+ /* same as page_mkwrite when using VM_PFNMAP|VM_MIXEDMAP */
+ int (*pfn_mkwrite)(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf);
+
/* called by access_process_vm when get_user_pages() fails, typically
* for use by special VMAs that can switch between memory and hardware
*/
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index f9628e568c58..22e037e3364e 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -2180,6 +2180,42 @@ oom:
return VM_FAULT_OOM;
}
+/*
+ * Handle write page faults for VM_MIXEDMAP or VM_PFNMAP for a VM_SHARED
+ * mapping
+ */
+static int wp_pfn_shared(struct mm_struct *mm,
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
+ pte_t *page_table, spinlock_t *ptl, pte_t orig_pte,
+ pmd_t *pmd)
+{
+ if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->pfn_mkwrite) {
+ struct vm_fault vmf = {
+ .page = NULL,
+ .pgoff = linear_page_index(vma, address),
+ .virtual_address = (void __user *)(address & PAGE_MASK),
+ .flags = FAULT_FLAG_WRITE | FAULT_FLAG_MKWRITE,
+ };
+ int ret;
+
+ pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl);
+ ret = vma->vm_ops->pfn_mkwrite(vma, &vmf);
+ if (ret & VM_FAULT_ERROR)
+ return ret;
+ page_table = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, address, &ptl);
+ /*
+ * We might have raced with another page fault while we
+ * released the pte_offset_map_lock.
+ */
+ if (!pte_same(*page_table, orig_pte)) {
+ pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl);
+ return 0;
+ }
+ }
+ return wp_page_reuse(mm, vma, address, page_table, ptl, orig_pte,
+ NULL, 0, 0);
+}
+
static int wp_page_shared(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long address, pte_t *page_table,
pmd_t *pmd, spinlock_t *ptl, pte_t orig_pte,
@@ -2258,13 +2294,12 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
* VM_PFNMAP VMA.
*
* We should not cow pages in a shared writeable mapping.
- * Just mark the pages writable as we can't do any dirty
- * accounting on raw pfn maps.
+ * Just mark the pages writable and/or call ops->pfn_mkwrite.
*/
if ((vma->vm_flags & (VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED)) ==
(VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED))
- return wp_page_reuse(mm, vma, address, page_table, ptl,
- orig_pte, old_page, 0, 0);
+ return wp_pfn_shared(mm, vma, address, page_table, ptl,
+ orig_pte, pmd);
pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl);
return wp_page_copy(mm, vma, address, page_table, pmd,