Re: [PATCH v2 23/26] userfaultfd: wp: don't wake up when doing write protect

From: Jerome Glisse
Date: Thu Feb 21 2019 - 13:37:06 EST


On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 10:56:29AM +0800, Peter Xu wrote:
> It does not make sense to try to wake up any waiting thread when we're
> write-protecting a memory region. Only wake up when resolving a write
> protected page fault.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>

I am bit confuse here, see below.

> ---
> fs/userfaultfd.c | 13 ++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/userfaultfd.c b/fs/userfaultfd.c
> index 81962d62520c..f1f61a0278c2 100644
> --- a/fs/userfaultfd.c
> +++ b/fs/userfaultfd.c
> @@ -1771,6 +1771,7 @@ static int userfaultfd_writeprotect(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx,
> struct uffdio_writeprotect uffdio_wp;
> struct uffdio_writeprotect __user *user_uffdio_wp;
> struct userfaultfd_wake_range range;
> + bool mode_wp, mode_dontwake;
>
> if (READ_ONCE(ctx->mmap_changing))
> return -EAGAIN;
> @@ -1789,18 +1790,20 @@ static int userfaultfd_writeprotect(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx,
> if (uffdio_wp.mode & ~(UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT_MODE_DONTWAKE |
> UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT_MODE_WP))
> return -EINVAL;
> - if ((uffdio_wp.mode & UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT_MODE_WP) &&
> - (uffdio_wp.mode & UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT_MODE_DONTWAKE))
> +
> + mode_wp = uffdio_wp.mode & UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT_MODE_WP;
> + mode_dontwake = uffdio_wp.mode & UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT_MODE_DONTWAKE;
> +
> + if (mode_wp && mode_dontwake)
> return -EINVAL;

I am confuse by the logic here. DONTWAKE means do not wake any waiting
thread right ? So if the patch header it seems to me the logic should
be:
if (mode_wp && !mode_dontwake)
return -EINVAL;

At very least this part does seems to mean the opposite of what the
commit message says.

>
> ret = mwriteprotect_range(ctx->mm, uffdio_wp.range.start,
> - uffdio_wp.range.len, uffdio_wp.mode &
> - UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT_MODE_WP,
> + uffdio_wp.range.len, mode_wp,
> &ctx->mmap_changing);
> if (ret)
> return ret;
>
> - if (!(uffdio_wp.mode & UFFDIO_WRITEPROTECT_MODE_DONTWAKE)) {
> + if (!mode_wp && !mode_dontwake) {

This part match the commit message :)

> range.start = uffdio_wp.range.start;
> range.len = uffdio_wp.range.len;
> wake_userfault(ctx, &range);