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Re: [PATCH 3/9] mm: postpone page table allocation until do_set_pte()

From "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 3/9] mm: postpone page table allocation until do_set_pte()
Date 2015-12-01 22:10 +0100
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On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 12:53:25PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 11/18/2015 03:25 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > --- a/mm/filemap.c
> > +++ b/mm/filemap.c
> > @@ -2068,11 +2068,6 @@ void filemap_map_pages(struct fault_env *fe,
> ...
> >  		if (file->f_ra.mmap_miss > 0)
> >  			file->f_ra.mmap_miss--;
> > -		do_set_pte(fe, page);
> > +
> > +		fe->address += (iter.index - last_pgoff) << PAGE_SHIFT;
> > +		if (fe->pte)
> > +			fe->pte += iter.index - last_pgoff;
> > +		last_pgoff = iter.index;
> > +		if (do_set_pte(fe, NULL, page)) {
> > +			/* failed to setup page table: giving up */
> > +			if (!fe->pte)
> > +				break;
> > +			goto unlock;
> > +		}
> >  		unlock_page(page);
> >  		goto next;
> 
> Hey Kirill,
> 
> Is there a case here where do_set_pte() returns an error and _still_
> manages to populate fe->pte?

Yes. If the page is already mapped, we will get VM_FAULT_NOPAGE:

do_set_pte()
  pte_alloc_one_map()
    !pmd_none(*fe->pmd) => goto map_pte;
    fe->pte = pte_offset_map_lock()
  !pte_none(*fe->pte) => return VM_FAULT_NOPAGE;

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov
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Re: [PATCH 3/9] mm: postpone page table allocation until do_set_pte() Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> - 2015-12-01 22:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 3/9] mm: postpone page table allocation until do_set_pte() "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2015-12-01 22:10 +0100

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