[PATCH 8/9] mm: allow ->page_mkwrite to do retries

From: Josef Bacik
Date: Wed Sep 26 2018 - 17:09:17 EST


Before we didn't set the retry flag on our vm_fault. We want to allow
file systems to drop the mmap_sem if they so choose, so set this flag
and deal with VM_FAULT_RETRY appropriately.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory.c | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 6f8abde84986..821435855177 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -2384,11 +2384,13 @@ static vm_fault_t do_page_mkwrite(struct vm_fault *vmf)
unsigned int old_flags = vmf->flags;

vmf->flags = FAULT_FLAG_WRITE|FAULT_FLAG_MKWRITE;
+ vmf->flags |= old_flags & FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY;

ret = vmf->vma->vm_ops->page_mkwrite(vmf);
/* Restore original flags so that caller is not surprised */
vmf->flags = old_flags;
- if (unlikely(ret & (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_NOPAGE)))
+ if (unlikely(ret & (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_NOPAGE |
+ VM_FAULT_RETRY)))
return ret;
if (unlikely(!(ret & VM_FAULT_LOCKED))) {
lock_page(page);
@@ -2683,7 +2685,8 @@ static vm_fault_t wp_page_shared(struct vm_fault *vmf)
pte_unmap_unlock(vmf->pte, vmf->ptl);
tmp = do_page_mkwrite(vmf);
if (unlikely(!tmp || (tmp &
- (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_NOPAGE)))) {
+ (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_NOPAGE |
+ VM_FAULT_RETRY)))) {
put_page(vmf->page);
return tmp;
}
@@ -3716,7 +3719,8 @@ static vm_fault_t do_shared_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
unlock_page(vmf->page);
tmp = do_page_mkwrite(vmf);
if (unlikely(!tmp ||
- (tmp & (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_NOPAGE)))) {
+ (tmp & (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_NOPAGE |
+ VM_FAULT_RETRY)))) {
put_page(vmf->page);
return tmp;
}
--
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