[PATCH 1/3] mm/cow: don't bother write protectig already write-protected huge pages

From: Nicholas Piggin
Date: Tue Aug 28 2018 - 07:20:53 EST


This is the THP equivalent for 1b2de5d039c8 ("mm/cow: don't bother write
protecting already write-protected pages").

Explicit hugetlb pages don't get the same treatment because they don't
appear to have the right accessor functions.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/huge_memory.c | 14 ++++++++++----
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 9592cbd8530a..d9bae12978ef 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -973,8 +973,11 @@ int copy_huge_pmd(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, struct mm_struct *src_mm,
mm_inc_nr_ptes(dst_mm);
pgtable_trans_huge_deposit(dst_mm, dst_pmd, pgtable);

- pmdp_set_wrprotect(src_mm, addr, src_pmd);
- pmd = pmd_mkold(pmd_wrprotect(pmd));
+ if (pmd_write(pmd)) {
+ pmdp_set_wrprotect(src_mm, addr, src_pmd);
+ pmd = pmd_wrprotect(pmd);
+ }
+ pmd = pmd_mkold(pmd);
set_pmd_at(dst_mm, addr, dst_pmd, pmd);

ret = 0;
@@ -1064,8 +1067,11 @@ int copy_huge_pud(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, struct mm_struct *src_mm,
/* No huge zero pud yet */
}

- pudp_set_wrprotect(src_mm, addr, src_pud);
- pud = pud_mkold(pud_wrprotect(pud));
+ if (pud_write(pud)) {
+ pudp_set_wrprotect(src_mm, addr, src_pud);
+ pud = pud_wrprotect(pud);
+ }
+ pud = pud_mkold(pud);
set_pud_at(dst_mm, addr, dst_pud, pud);

ret = 0;
--
2.18.0