[RFC PATCH 1/7] mm: use ptep_clear() in non-present cases

From: Qi Zheng
Date: Thu Aug 25 2022 - 06:11:45 EST


After commit 08d5b29eac7d ("mm: ptep_clear() page table helper"),
the ptep_clear() can be used to track the clearing of PTE entries,
but it skips some places since the page table check does not care
about non-present PTE entries.

Subsequent patches need to use ptep_clear() to track all clearing
PTE entries, so this patch makes ptep_clear() used for all cases
including clearing non-present PTE entries.

Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/pgtable.h | 2 +-
mm/memory.c | 2 +-
mm/mprotect.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/pgtable.h b/include/linux/pgtable.h
index 3cdc16cfd867..9745684b0cdb 100644
--- a/include/linux/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/linux/pgtable.h
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ static inline void pte_clear_not_present_full(struct mm_struct *mm,
pte_t *ptep,
int full)
{
- pte_clear(mm, address, ptep);
+ ptep_clear(mm, address, ptep);
}
#endif

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 1c6027adc542..207e0ee657e9 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3655,7 +3655,7 @@ static vm_fault_t pte_marker_clear(struct vm_fault *vmf)
* none pte. Otherwise it means the pte could have changed, so retry.
*/
if (is_pte_marker(*vmf->pte))
- pte_clear(vmf->vma->vm_mm, vmf->address, vmf->pte);
+ ptep_clear(vmf->vma->vm_mm, vmf->address, vmf->pte);
pte_unmap_unlock(vmf->pte, vmf->ptl);
return 0;
}
diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c
index ba5592655ee3..1a01bd22a4ed 100644
--- a/mm/mprotect.c
+++ b/mm/mprotect.c
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ static unsigned long change_pte_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
* fault will trigger without uffd trapping.
*/
if (uffd_wp_resolve) {
- pte_clear(vma->vm_mm, addr, pte);
+ ptep_clear(vma->vm_mm, addr, pte);
pages++;
}
continue;
--
2.20.1