On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 03:47:53PM -0400, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> From: Matthew Wilcox <wi...@linux.intel.com>
>
> vm_insert_mixed() will fail if there is already a valid PTE at that
> location. The DAX code would rather replace the previous value with
> the new PTE.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <wi...@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> include/linux/mm.h | 8 ++++++--
> mm/memory.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index e04f531..8d1194c 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -1958,8 +1958,12 @@ int remap_pfn_range(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned
> long addr,
> int vm_insert_page(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long addr, struct page
> *);
> int vm_insert_pfn(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
> unsigned long pfn);
> -int vm_insert_mixed(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
> - unsigned long pfn);
> +int __vm_insert_mixed(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
> + unsigned long pfn, bool replace);
> +#define vm_insert_mixed(vma, addr, pfn) \
> + __vm_insert_mixed(vma, addr, pfn, false)
> +#define vm_replace_mixed(vma, addr, pfn) \
> + __vm_insert_mixed(vma, addr, pfn, true)
> int vm_iomap_memory(struct vm_area_struct *vma, phys_addr_t start, unsigned
> long len);
>
>
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index 42bf429..cf06c97 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -1476,7 +1476,7 @@ pte_t *__get_locked_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned
> long addr,
> * pages reserved for the old functions anyway.
> */
> static int insert_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
> - struct page *page, pgprot_t prot)
> + struct page *page, pgprot_t prot, bool replace)
> {
> struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
> int retval;
> @@ -1492,8 +1492,12 @@ static int insert_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> unsigned long addr,
> if (!pte)
> goto out;
> retval = -EBUSY;
> - if (!pte_none(*pte))
> - goto out_unlock;
> + if (!pte_none(*pte)) {
> + if (!replace)
> + goto out_unlock;
> +
> VM_BUG_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&vma->vm_file->f_mapping->i_mmap_mutex));
> + zap_page_range_single(vma, addr, PAGE_SIZE, NULL);
zap_page_range_single() takes ptl by itself in zap_pte_range(). It's not
going to work.
And zap_page_range*() is pretty heavy weapon to shoot down one pte, which
we already have pointer to. Why?
--
Kirill A. Shutemov
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