[PATCH 2/7] mm/hugetlb: Stop using avoid_reserve flag in fork()

From: Peter Xu
Date: Sun Dec 01 2024 - 16:23:12 EST


When fork() and stumble on top of a dma-pinned hugetlb private page, CoW
must happen during fork() to guarantee dma coherency.

In this specific path, hugetlb pages need to be allocated for the child
process. Stop using avoid_reserve=1 flag here: it's not required to be
used here, as dest_vma (which is destined to be a MAP_PRIVATE hugetlb vma)
will have no private vma resv map, and that will make sure it won't be able
to use a vma reservation later.

No functional change intended with this change. Said that, it's still
wanted to do this, so as to reduce the usage of avoid_reserve to the only
one user, which is also why this flag was introduced initially in commit
04f2cbe35699 ("hugetlb: guarantee that COW faults for a process that called
mmap(MAP_PRIVATE) on hugetlbfs will succeed"). I don't see whoever else
should set it at all.

Further patch will clean up resv accounting based on this.

Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/hugetlb.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 9ce69fd22a01..8d4b4197d11b 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -5317,7 +5317,7 @@ int copy_hugetlb_page_range(struct mm_struct *dst, struct mm_struct *src,
spin_unlock(src_ptl);
spin_unlock(dst_ptl);
/* Do not use reserve as it's private owned */
- new_folio = alloc_hugetlb_folio(dst_vma, addr, 1);
+ new_folio = alloc_hugetlb_folio(dst_vma, addr, 0);
if (IS_ERR(new_folio)) {
folio_put(pte_folio);
ret = PTR_ERR(new_folio);
--
2.47.0