[PATCH] mm: Introduce new function vm_insert_kmem_page

From: Souptick Joarder
Date: Thu Sep 27 2018 - 13:48:13 EST


vm_insert_kmem_page is similar to vm_insert_page and will
be used by drivers to map kernel (kmalloc/vmalloc/pages)
allocated memory to user vma.

Previously vm_insert_page is used for both page fault
handlers and outside page fault handlers context. When
vm_insert_page is used in page fault handlers context,
each driver have to map errno to VM_FAULT_CODE in their
own way. But as part of vm_fault_t migration all the
page fault handlers are cleaned up by using new vmf_insert_page.
Going forward, vm_insert_page will be removed by converting
it to vmf_insert_page.

But their are places where vm_insert_page is used outside
page fault handlers context and converting those to
vmf_insert_page is not a good approach as drivers will end
up with new VM_FAULT_CODE to errno conversion code and it will
make each user more complex.

So this new vm_insert_kmem_page can be used to map kernel
memory to user vma outside page fault handler context.

In short, vmf_insert_page will be used in page fault handlers
context and vm_insert_kmem_page will be used to map kernel
memory to user vma outside page fault handlers context.

We will slowly convert all the user of vm_insert_page to
vm_insert_kmem_page after this API be available in linus tree.

Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mm.h | 2 ++
mm/memory.c | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
mm/nommu.c | 7 ++++++
3 files changed, 78 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index a61ebe8..5f42d35 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -2477,6 +2477,8 @@ unsigned long change_prot_numa(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
struct vm_area_struct *find_extend_vma(struct mm_struct *, unsigned long addr);
int remap_pfn_range(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long addr,
unsigned long pfn, unsigned long size, pgprot_t);
+int vm_insert_kmem_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
+ struct page *page);
int vm_insert_page(struct vm_area_struct *, unsigned long addr, struct page *);
int vm_insert_pfn(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
unsigned long pfn);
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index c467102..b800c10 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1682,6 +1682,75 @@ pte_t *__get_locked_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
return pte_alloc_map_lock(mm, pmd, addr, ptl);
}

+static int insert_kmem_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
+ struct page *page, pgprot_t prot)
+{
+ struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
+ int retval;
+ pte_t *pte;
+ spinlock_t *ptl;
+
+ retval = -EINVAL;
+ if (PageAnon(page))
+ goto out;
+ retval = -ENOMEM;
+ flush_dcache_page(page);
+ pte = get_locked_pte(mm, addr, &ptl);
+ if (!pte)
+ goto out;
+ retval = -EBUSY;
+ if (!pte_none(*pte))
+ goto out_unlock;
+
+ get_page(page);
+ inc_mm_counter_fast(mm, mm_counter_file(page));
+ page_add_file_rmap(page, false);
+ set_pte_at(mm, addr, pte, mk_pte(page, prot));
+
+ retval = 0;
+ pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl);
+ return retval;
+out_unlock:
+ pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl);
+out:
+ return retval;
+}
+
+/**
+ * vm_insert_kmem_page - insert single page into user vma
+ * @vma: user vma to map to
+ * @addr: target user address of this page
+ * @page: source kernel page
+ *
+ * This allows drivers to insert individual kernel memory into a user vma.
+ * This API should be used outside page fault handlers context.
+ *
+ * Previously the same has been done with vm_insert_page by drivers. But
+ * vm_insert_page will be converted to vmf_insert_page and will be used
+ * in fault handlers context and return type of vmf_insert_page will be
+ * vm_fault_t type.
+ *
+ * But there are places where drivers need to map kernel memory into user
+ * vma outside fault handlers context. As vmf_insert_page will be restricted
+ * to use within page fault handlers, vm_insert_kmem_page could be used
+ * to map kernel memory to user vma outside fault handlers context.
+ */
+int vm_insert_kmem_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
+ struct page *page)
+{
+ if (addr < vma->vm_start || addr >= vma->vm_end)
+ return -EFAULT;
+ if (!page_count(page))
+ return -EINVAL;
+ if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_MIXEDMAP)) {
+ BUG_ON(down_read_trylock(&vma->vm_mm->mmap_sem));
+ BUG_ON(vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP);
+ vma->vm_flags |= VM_MIXEDMAP;
+ }
+ return insert_kmem_page(vma, addr, page, vma->vm_page_prot);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_insert_kmem_page);
+
/*
* This is the old fallback for page remapping.
*
diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c
index e4aac33..153b8c8 100644
--- a/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/mm/nommu.c
@@ -473,6 +473,13 @@ int vm_insert_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_insert_page);

+int vm_insert_kmem_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
+ struct page *page)
+{
+ return -EINVAL;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_insert_kmem_page);
+
/*
* sys_brk() for the most part doesn't need the global kernel
* lock, except when an application is doing something nasty
--
1.9.1