Re: [PATCH 3/5] userfualtfd: Replace lru_cache functions with folio_add functions

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Wed Nov 02 2022 - 15:21:28 EST


On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 03:02:35PM -0400, Peter Xu wrote:
> Does the patch attached look reasonable to you?

Mmm, no. If the page is in the swap cache, this will be "true".

> diff --git a/mm/userfaultfd.c b/mm/userfaultfd.c
> index 3d0fef3980b3..650ab6cfd5f4 100644
> --- a/mm/userfaultfd.c
> +++ b/mm/userfaultfd.c
> @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ int mfill_atomic_install_pte(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, pmd_t *dst_pmd,
> pte_t _dst_pte, *dst_pte;
> bool writable = dst_vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE;
> bool vm_shared = dst_vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED;
> - bool page_in_cache = page->mapping;
> + bool page_in_cache = page_mapping(page);

We could do:

struct page *head = compound_head(page);
bool page_in_cache = head->mapping && !PageMappingFlags(head);