Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] pagemap: report swap location for shared pages

[David Hildenbrand]

On 14.07.21 18:24, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 14.07.21 18:08, Peter Xu wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 03:24:26PM +0000, Tiberiu Georgescu wrote:
> > > When a page allocated using the MAP_SHARED flag is swapped out, its pagemap
> > > entry is cleared. In many cases, there is no difference between swapped-out
> > > shared pages and newly allocated, non-dirty pages in the pagemap interface.
> > >
> > > This patch addresses the behaviour and modifies pte_to_pagemap_entry() to
> > > make use of the XArray associated with the virtual memory area struct
> > > passed as an argument. The XArray contains the location of virtual pages
> > > in the page cache, swap cache or on disk. If they are on either of the
> > > caches, then the original implementation still works. If not, then the
> > > missing information will be retrieved from the XArray.
> > >
> > > Co-developed-by: Florian Schmidt <florian.schmidt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Florian Schmidt <florian.schmidt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Co-developed-by: Carl Waldspurger <carl.waldspurger@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Carl Waldspurger <carl.waldspurger@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Co-developed-by: Ivan Teterevkov <ivan.teterevkov@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Ivan Teterevkov <ivan.teterevkov@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Tiberiu Georgescu <tiberiu.georgescu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >    fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> > >    1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> > > index eb97468dfe4c..b17c8aedd32e 100644
> > > --- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> > > +++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> > > @@ -1359,12 +1359,25 @@ static int pagemap_pte_hole(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
> > >    	return err;
> > >    }
> > >    
> > > +static void *get_xa_entry_at_vma_addr(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> > > +		unsigned long addr)
> > > +{
> > > +	struct inode *inode = file_inode(vma->vm_file);
> > > +	struct address_space *mapping = inode->i_mapping;
> > > +	pgoff_t offset = linear_page_index(vma, addr);
> > > +
> > > +	return xa_load(&mapping->i_pages, offset);
> > > +}
> > > +
> > >    static pagemap_entry_t pte_to_pagemap_entry(struct pagemapread *pm,
> > >    		struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, pte_t pte)
> > >    {
> > >    	u64 frame = 0, flags = 0;
> > >    	struct page *page = NULL;
> > >    
> > > +	if (vma->vm_flags & VM_SOFTDIRTY)
> > > +		flags |= PM_SOFT_DIRTY;
> > > +
> > >    	if (pte_present(pte)) {
> > >    		if (pm->show_pfn)
> > >    			frame = pte_pfn(pte);
> > > @@ -1374,13 +1387,22 @@ static pagemap_entry_t pte_to_pagemap_entry(struct pagemapread *pm,
> > >    			flags |= PM_SOFT_DIRTY;
> > >    		if (pte_uffd_wp(pte))
> > >    			flags |= PM_UFFD_WP;
> > > -	} else if (is_swap_pte(pte)) {
> > > +	} else if (is_swap_pte(pte) || shmem_file(vma->vm_file)) {
> > >    		swp_entry_t entry;
> > > -		if (pte_swp_soft_dirty(pte))
> > > -			flags |= PM_SOFT_DIRTY;
> > > -		if (pte_swp_uffd_wp(pte))
> > > -			flags |= PM_UFFD_WP;
> > > -		entry = pte_to_swp_entry(pte);
> > > +		if (is_swap_pte(pte)) {
> > > +			entry = pte_to_swp_entry(pte);
> > > +			if (pte_swp_soft_dirty(pte))
> > > +				flags |= PM_SOFT_DIRTY;
> > > +			if (pte_swp_uffd_wp(pte))
> > > +				flags |= PM_UFFD_WP;
> > > +		} else {
> > > +			void *xa_entry = get_xa_entry_at_vma_addr(vma, addr);
> > > +
> > > +			if (xa_is_value(xa_entry))
> > > +				entry = radix_to_swp_entry(xa_entry);
> > > +			else
> > > +				goto out;
> > > +		}
> > >    		if (pm->show_pfn)
> > >    			frame = swp_type(entry) |
> > >    				(swp_offset(entry) << MAX_SWAPFILES_SHIFT);
> > > @@ -1393,9 +1415,8 @@ static pagemap_entry_t pte_to_pagemap_entry(struct pagemapread *pm,
> > >    		flags |= PM_FILE;
> > >    	if (page && page_mapcount(page) == 1)
> > >    		flags |= PM_MMAP_EXCLUSIVE;
> > > -	if (vma->vm_flags & VM_SOFTDIRTY)
> > > -		flags |= PM_SOFT_DIRTY;
> >
> > IMHO moving this to the entry will only work for the initial iteration, however
> > it won't really help anything, as soft-dirty should always be used in pair with
> > clear_refs written with value "4" first otherwise all pages will be marked
> > soft-dirty then the pagemap data is meaningless.
> >
> > After the "write 4" op VM_SOFTDIRTY will be cleared and I expect the test case
> > to see all zeros again even with the patch.
> >
> > I think one way to fix this is to do something similar to uffd-wp: we leave a
> > marker in pte showing that this is soft-dirtied pte even if swapped out.
>
> How exactly does such a pte look like? Simply pte_none() with another
> bit set?
>
> > However we don't have a mechanism for that yet in current linux, and the
> > uffd-wp series is the first one trying to introduce something like that.
>
> Can you give me a pointer? I'm very interested in learning how to
> identify this case.

I assume it's 
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210527202117.30689-1-peterx@xxxxxxxxxx/

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Thanks,

David / dhildenb