From d08b3851da41d0ee60851f2c75b118e1f7a5fc89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:30:57 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: tracking shared dirty pages 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 Cc: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/rmap.h | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/rmap.h') diff --git a/include/linux/rmap.h b/include/linux/rmap.h index bf97b0900014..db2c1df4fef9 100644 --- a/include/linux/rmap.h +++ b/include/linux/rmap.h @@ -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 */ /* -- cgit v1.2.1