From d9104d1ca9662498339c0de975b4666c30485f4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cyrill Gorcunov Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:22:24 -0700 Subject: mm: track vma changes with VM_SOFTDIRTY bit Pavel reported that in case if vma area get unmapped and then mapped (or expanded) in-place, the soft dirty tracker won't be able to recognize this situation since it works on pte level and ptes are get zapped on unmap, loosing soft dirty bit of course. So to resolve this situation we need to track actions on vma level, there VM_SOFTDIRTY flag comes in. When new vma area created (or old expanded) we set this bit, and keep it here until application calls for clearing soft dirty bit. Thus when user space application track memory changes now it can detect if vma area is renewed. Reported-by: Pavel Emelyanov Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Matt Mackall Cc: Xiao Guangrong Cc: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Stephen Rothwell Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Cc: Rob Landley Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/mmap.c | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index 13926a5a6901..51958d192a48 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -1609,6 +1609,15 @@ out: if (file) uprobe_mmap(vma); + /* + * New (or expanded) vma always get soft dirty status. + * Otherwise user-space soft-dirty page tracker won't + * be able to distinguish situation when vma area unmapped, + * then new mapped in-place (which must be aimed as + * a completely new data area). + */ + vma->vm_flags |= VM_SOFTDIRTY; + return addr; unmap_and_free_vma: @@ -2652,6 +2661,7 @@ out: mm->total_vm += len >> PAGE_SHIFT; if (flags & VM_LOCKED) mm->locked_vm += (len >> PAGE_SHIFT); + vma->vm_flags |= VM_SOFTDIRTY; return addr; } @@ -2916,7 +2926,7 @@ int install_special_mapping(struct mm_struct *mm, vma->vm_start = addr; vma->vm_end = addr + len; - vma->vm_flags = vm_flags | mm->def_flags | VM_DONTEXPAND; + vma->vm_flags = vm_flags | mm->def_flags | VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_SOFTDIRTY; vma->vm_page_prot = vm_get_page_prot(vma->vm_flags); vma->vm_ops = &special_mapping_vmops; -- cgit v1.2.1