[PATCH v8 02/22] Allow page fault handlers to perform the COW

[Matthew Wilcox]

Currently COW of an XIP file is done by first bringing in a read-only
mapping, then retrying the fault and copying the page.  It is much more
efficient to tell the fault handler that a COW is being attempted (by
passing in the pre-allocated page in the vm_fault structure), and allow
the handler to perform the COW operation itself.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/mm.h |  1 +
 mm/memory.c        | 11 +++++++----
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index e03dd29..e04f531 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -208,6 +208,7 @@ struct vm_fault {
 	pgoff_t pgoff;			/* Logical page offset based on vma */
 	void __user *virtual_address;	/* Faulting virtual address */
 
+	struct page *cow_page;		/* Handler may choose to COW */
 	struct page *page;		/* ->fault handlers should return a
 					 * page here, unless VM_FAULT_NOPAGE
 					 * is set (which is also implied by
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index d67fd9f..42bf429 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -2003,6 +2003,7 @@ static int do_page_mkwrite(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page,
 	vmf.pgoff = page->index;
 	vmf.flags = FAULT_FLAG_WRITE|FAULT_FLAG_MKWRITE;
 	vmf.page = page;
+	vmf.cow_page = NULL;
 
 	ret = vma->vm_ops->page_mkwrite(vma, &vmf);
 	if (unlikely(ret & (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_NOPAGE)))
@@ -2689,7 +2690,8 @@ oom:
 }
 
 static int __do_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
-		pgoff_t pgoff, unsigned int flags, struct page **page)
+			pgoff_t pgoff, unsigned int flags,
+			struct page *cow_page, struct page **page)
 {
 	struct vm_fault vmf;
 	int ret;
@@ -2698,6 +2700,7 @@ static int __do_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
 	vmf.pgoff = pgoff;
 	vmf.flags = flags;
 	vmf.page = NULL;
+	vmf.cow_page = cow_page;
 
 	ret = vma->vm_ops->fault(vma, &vmf);
 	if (unlikely(ret & (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_NOPAGE | VM_FAULT_RETRY)))
@@ -2890,7 +2893,7 @@ static int do_read_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl);
 	}
 
-	ret = __do_fault(vma, address, pgoff, flags, &fault_page);
+	ret = __do_fault(vma, address, pgoff, flags, NULL, &fault_page);
 	if (unlikely(ret & (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_NOPAGE | VM_FAULT_RETRY)))
 		return ret;
 
@@ -2929,7 +2932,7 @@ static int do_cow_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		return VM_FAULT_OOM;
 	}
 
-	ret = __do_fault(vma, address, pgoff, flags, &fault_page);
+	ret = __do_fault(vma, address, pgoff, flags, new_page, &fault_page);
 	if (unlikely(ret & (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_NOPAGE | VM_FAULT_RETRY)))
 		goto uncharge_out;
 
@@ -2965,7 +2968,7 @@ static int do_shared_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	int dirtied = 0;
 	int ret, tmp;
 
-	ret = __do_fault(vma, address, pgoff, flags, &fault_page);
+	ret = __do_fault(vma, address, pgoff, flags, NULL, &fault_page);
 	if (unlikely(ret & (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_NOPAGE | VM_FAULT_RETRY)))
 		return ret;
 
-- 
2.0.0

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