Re: [PATCH v2 05/32] mm/filemap: allow pte_offset_map_lock() to fail

From: Zi Yan
Date: Mon Jul 10 2023 - 21:34:49 EST


On 8 Jun 2023, at 21:11, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> filemap_map_pages() allow pte_offset_map_lock() to fail; and remove the
> pmd_devmap_trans_unstable() check from filemap_map_pmd(), which can safely
> return to filemap_map_pages() and let pte_offset_map_lock() discover that.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/filemap.c | 12 +++++-------
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
> index 28b42ee848a4..9e129ad43e0d 100644
> --- a/mm/filemap.c
> +++ b/mm/filemap.c
> @@ -3408,13 +3408,6 @@ static bool filemap_map_pmd(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct folio *folio,
> if (pmd_none(*vmf->pmd))
> pmd_install(mm, vmf->pmd, &vmf->prealloc_pte);
>
> - /* See comment in handle_pte_fault() */
> - if (pmd_devmap_trans_unstable(vmf->pmd)) {
> - folio_unlock(folio);
> - folio_put(folio);
> - return true;
> - }
> -

There is a pmd_trans_huge() check at the beginning, should it be removed
as well? Since pte_offset_map_lock() is also able to detect it.

> return false;
> }
>
> @@ -3501,6 +3494,11 @@ vm_fault_t filemap_map_pages(struct vm_fault *vmf,
>
> addr = vma->vm_start + ((start_pgoff - vma->vm_pgoff) << PAGE_SHIFT);
> vmf->pte = pte_offset_map_lock(vma->vm_mm, vmf->pmd, addr, &vmf->ptl);
> + if (!vmf->pte) {
> + folio_unlock(folio);
> + folio_put(folio);
> + goto out;
> + }
> do {
> again:
> page = folio_file_page(folio, xas.xa_index);
> --
> 2.35.3

These two changes affect the ret value. Before, pmd_devmap_trans_unstable() == true
made ret = VM_FAULT_NPAGE, but now ret is the default 0 value. So ret should be set
to VM_FAULT_NPAGE before goto out in the second hunk?

--
Best Regards,
Yan, Zi

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