Re: [RFC PATCH 3/5] mm proc/task_mmu.c: add soft dirty pte checks for hugetlb

From: Mike Kravetz
Date: Thu Feb 18 2021 - 19:01:14 EST


On 2/17/21 11:35 AM, Peter Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 04:03:20PM -0800, Mike Kravetz wrote:
>> Pagemap was only using the vma flag PM_SOFT_DIRTY for hugetlb vmas.
>> This is insufficient. Check the individual pte entries.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 4 ++++
>> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
>> index 602e3a52884d..829b35016aaa 100644
>> --- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
>> +++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
>> @@ -1507,6 +1507,10 @@ static int pagemap_hugetlb_range(pte_t *ptep, unsigned long hmask,
>> flags |= PM_SOFT_DIRTY;
>>
>> pte = huge_ptep_get(ptep);
>> +
>> + if (huge_pte_soft_dirty(pte))
>> + flags |= PM_SOFT_DIRTY;
>
> Should this be put into pte_present() chunk below? Since I feel like we'd need
> huge_pte_swp_soft_dirty() for !pte_present(). Say, _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY and
> _PAGE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY can be different.
>

Yes this should be moved below, and it should check for both.

Thanks,
--
Mike Kravetz

>> +
>> if (pte_present(pte)) {
>> struct page *page = pte_page(pte);
>>
>> --
>> 2.29.2
>>
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