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 c034f478b73d..4976ea1a8c90 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -685,13 +685,18 @@ 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 2e4c5755cbc1..eb84429be9ea 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -2452,7 +2452,7 @@ 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); @@ -2543,8 +2543,8 @@ 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