The current maybe_mkwrite() is getting passed the pointer to the vma
structure to fetch the vm_flags field.
When dealing with the speculative page fault handler, it will be better to
rely on the cached vm_flags value stored in the vm_fault structure.
This patch introduce a __maybe_mkwrite() service which can be called by
passing the value of the vm_flags field.
There is no change functional changes expected for the other callers of
maybe_mkwrite().
Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <lduf...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
include/linux/mm.h | 9 +++++++--
mm/memory.c | 6 +++---
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index ccb718e28ebe..cdccee815227 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -673,13 +673,18 @@ void free_compound_page(struct page *page);
* pte_mkwrite. But get_user_pages can cause write faults for mappings
* that do not have writing enabled, when used by access_process_vm.
*/
-static inline pte_t maybe_mkwrite(pte_t pte, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+static inline pte_t __maybe_mkwrite(pte_t pte, unsigned long vma_flags)
{
- if (likely(vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE))
+ if (likely(vma_flags & VM_WRITE))
pte = pte_mkwrite(pte);
return pte;
}
+static inline pte_t maybe_mkwrite(pte_t pte, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+ return __maybe_mkwrite(pte, vma->vm_flags);
+}
+
int alloc_set_pte(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
struct page *page);
int finish_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf);
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 687d4395111f..d91418708845 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -2451,7 +2451,7 @@ static inline void wp_page_reuse(struct vm_fault *vmf)
flush_cache_page(vma, vmf->address, pte_pfn(vmf->orig_pte));
entry = pte_mkyoung(vmf->orig_pte);
- entry = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry), vma);
+ entry = __maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry), vmf->vma_flags);
if (ptep_set_access_flags(vma, vmf->address, vmf->pte, entry, 1))
update_mmu_cache(vma, vmf->address, vmf->pte);
pte_unmap_unlock(vmf->pte, vmf->ptl);
@@ -2541,8 +2541,8 @@ static int wp_page_copy(struct vm_fault *vmf)
inc_mm_counter_fast(mm, MM_ANONPAGES);
}
flush_cache_page(vma, vmf->address, pte_pfn(vmf->orig_pte));
- entry = mk_pte(new_page, vma->vm_page_prot);
- entry = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry), vma);
+ entry = mk_pte(new_page, vmf->vma_page_prot);
+ entry = __maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry), vmf->vma_flags);
/*
* Clear the pte entry and flush it first, before updating the
* pte with the new entry. This will avoid a race condition
--
2.7.4
