Re: [RFC PATCH 3/5] mm proc/task_mmu.c: add soft dirty pte checks for hugetlb

From: Peter Xu
Date: Wed Feb 17 2021 - 14:37:24 EST


On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 04:03:20PM -0800, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> Pagemap was only using the vma flag PM_SOFT_DIRTY for hugetlb vmas.
> This is insufficient. Check the individual pte entries.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> index 602e3a52884d..829b35016aaa 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> @@ -1507,6 +1507,10 @@ static int pagemap_hugetlb_range(pte_t *ptep, unsigned long hmask,
> flags |= PM_SOFT_DIRTY;
>
> pte = huge_ptep_get(ptep);
> +
> + if (huge_pte_soft_dirty(pte))
> + flags |= PM_SOFT_DIRTY;

Should this be put into pte_present() chunk below? Since I feel like we'd need
huge_pte_swp_soft_dirty() for !pte_present(). Say, _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY and
_PAGE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY can be different.

> +
> if (pte_present(pte)) {
> struct page *page = pte_page(pte);
>
> --
> 2.29.2
>

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Peter Xu