[RFC PATCH v2 4/9] mm: Add COW PTE fallback functions

[Chih-En Lin]

The lifetime of COWed PTE table will handle by a reference count.
When the process wants to write the COWed PTE table, which refcount
is 1, it will reuse the shared PTE.

Since only the owner will update their page table state. the fallback
function also needs to handle the situation of non-owner COWed PTE table
fallback to normal PTE.

This commit prepares for the following implementation of the reference
count for COW PTE.

Signed-off-by: Chih-En Lin <shiyn.lin@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/pgtable.h |  3 ++
 mm/memory.c             | 93 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 96 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/pgtable.h b/include/linux/pgtable.h
index 9dca787a3f4dd..25c1e5c42fdf3 100644
--- a/include/linux/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/linux/pgtable.h
@@ -615,6 +615,9 @@ static inline int pte_unused(pte_t pte)
 }
 #endif
 
+void cow_pte_fallback(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
+		      unsigned long addr);
+
 static inline void set_cow_pte_owner(pmd_t *pmd, pmd_t *owner)
 {
 	smp_store_release(&pmd_page(*pmd)->cow_pte_owner, owner);
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 4ba73f5aa8bb7..d29f84801f3cd 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -509,6 +509,37 @@ static inline void add_mm_rss_vec(struct mm_struct *mm, int *rss)
 			add_mm_counter(mm, i, rss[i]);
 }
 
+static void cow_pte_rss(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+			       pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long addr,
+			       unsigned long end, bool inc_dec)
+{
+	int rss[NR_MM_COUNTERS];
+	spinlock_t *ptl;
+	pte_t *orig_ptep, *ptep;
+	struct page *page;
+
+	init_rss_vec(rss);
+
+	ptep = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmdp, addr, &ptl);
+	orig_ptep = ptep;
+	arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode();
+	do {
+		if (pte_none(*ptep))
+			continue;
+
+		page = vm_normal_page(vma, addr, *ptep);
+		if (page) {
+			if (inc_dec)
+				rss[mm_counter(page)]++;
+			else
+				rss[mm_counter(page)]--;
+		}
+	} while (ptep++, addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end);
+	arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();
+	pte_unmap_unlock(orig_ptep, ptl);
+	add_mm_rss_vec(mm, rss);
+}
+
 /*
  * This function is called to print an error when a bad pte
  * is found. For example, we might have a PFN-mapped pte in
@@ -2817,6 +2848,68 @@ int apply_to_existing_page_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(apply_to_existing_page_range);
 
+/**
+ * cow_pte_fallback - reuse the shared PTE table
+ * @vma: vma that coever the shared PTE table
+ * @pmd: pmd index maps to the shared PTE table
+ * @addr: the address trigger the break COW,
+ *
+ * Reuse the shared (COW) PTE table when the refcount is equal to one.
+ * @addr needs to be in the range of the shared PTE table that @vma and
+ * @pmd mapped to it.
+ *
+ * COW PTE fallback to normal PTE:
+ * - two state here
+ *   - After break child :   [parent, rss=1, ref=1, write=NO , owner=parent]
+ *                        to [parent, rss=1, ref=1, write=YES, owner=NULL  ]
+ *   - After break parent:   [child , rss=0, ref=1, write=NO , owner=NULL  ]
+ *                        to [child , rss=1, ref=1, write=YES, owner=NULL  ]
+ */
+void cow_pte_fallback(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
+		      unsigned long addr)
+{
+	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
+	struct vm_area_struct *prev = vma->vm_prev;
+	struct vm_area_struct *next = vma->vm_next;
+	unsigned long start, end;
+	pmd_t new;
+
+	VM_WARN_ON(pmd_write(*pmd));
+
+	start = addr & PMD_MASK;
+	end = (addr + PMD_SIZE) & PMD_MASK;
+
+	/*
+	 * If pmd is not owner, it needs to increase the rss.
+	 * Since only the owner has the RSS state for the COW PTE.
+	 */
+	if (!cow_pte_owner_is_same(pmd, pmd)) {
+		/* The part of address range is covered by previous. */
+		if (start < vma->vm_start && prev && start < prev->vm_end) {
+			cow_pte_rss(mm, prev, pmd,
+				    start, prev->vm_end, true /* inc */);
+			start = vma->vm_start;
+		}
+		/* The part of address range is covered by next. */
+		if (end > vma->vm_end && next && end > next->vm_start) {
+			cow_pte_rss(mm, next, pmd,
+				    next->vm_start, end, true /* inc */);
+			end = vma->vm_end;
+		}
+		cow_pte_rss(mm, vma, pmd, start, end, true /* inc */);
+
+		mm_inc_nr_ptes(mm);
+		/* Memory barrier here is the same as pmd_install(). */
+		smp_wmb();
+		pmd_populate(mm, pmd, pmd_page(*pmd));
+	}
+
+	/* Reuse the pte page */
+	set_cow_pte_owner(pmd, NULL);
+	new = pmd_mkwrite(*pmd);
+	set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmd, new);
+}
+
 /*
  * handle_pte_fault chooses page fault handler according to an entry which was
  * read non-atomically.  Before making any commitment, on those architectures
-- 
2.37.3