[PATCH v2 2/2] mm: set pte writable while pte_soft_dirty() is true in do_swap_page()

From: Barry Song
Date: Fri Jun 07 2024 - 17:14:52 EST


From: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@xxxxxxxx>

This patch leverages the new pte_needs_soft_dirty_wp() helper to optimize
a scenario where softdirty is enabled, but the softdirty flag has already
been set in do_swap_page(). In this situation, we can use pte_mkwrite
instead of applying write-protection since we don't depend on write
faults.

Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@xxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index db9130488231..a063e489446d 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -4322,7 +4322,7 @@ vm_fault_t do_swap_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
if (!folio_test_ksm(folio) &&
(exclusive || folio_ref_count(folio) == 1)) {
if ((vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE) && !userfaultfd_pte_wp(vma, pte) &&
- !vma_soft_dirty_enabled(vma)) {
+ !pte_needs_soft_dirty_wp(vma, pte)) {
pte = pte_mkwrite(pte, vma);
if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) {
pte = pte_mkdirty(pte);
--
2.34.1