Re: [PATCH 6/7] mm: allow ->page_mkwrite to do retries

From: Dave Chinner
Date: Thu Oct 18 2018 - 23:36:23 EST


On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 04:23:17PM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
> Before we didn't set the retry flag on our vm_fault. We want to allow
> file systems to drop the mmap_sem if they so choose, so set this flag
> and deal with VM_FAULT_RETRY appropriately.
>
> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> mm/memory.c | 10 +++++++---
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index 433075f722ea..c5e81edd94f9 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -2384,11 +2384,13 @@ static vm_fault_t do_page_mkwrite(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> unsigned int old_flags = vmf->flags;
>
> vmf->flags = FAULT_FLAG_WRITE|FAULT_FLAG_MKWRITE;
> + vmf->flags |= old_flags & FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY;
>
> ret = vmf->vma->vm_ops->page_mkwrite(vmf);
> /* Restore original flags so that caller is not surprised */
> vmf->flags = old_flags;


> - if (unlikely(ret & (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_NOPAGE)))
> + if (unlikely(ret & (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_NOPAGE |
> + VM_FAULT_RETRY)))

Mess.

#define __FAIL_FLAGS (VM_FAULT_ERROR | VM_FAULT_NOPAGE | VM_FAULT_RETRY)
if (ret & __FAIL_FLAGS)

Should kill the unlikely() at the same time.

-Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx