[PATCH v4 05/14] mm/khugepaged: Break COW PTE before scanning pte

[Chih-En Lin]

We should not allow THP to collapse COW-ed PTE. So, break COW PTE
before collapse_pte_mapped_thp() collapse to THP. Also, break COW
PTE before khugepaged_scan_pmd() scan PTE.

Signed-off-by: Chih-En Lin <shiyn.lin@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/trace/events/huge_memory.h |  1 +
 mm/khugepaged.c                    | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/trace/events/huge_memory.h b/include/trace/events/huge_memory.h
index 3e6fb05852f9..5f2c39f61521 100644
--- a/include/trace/events/huge_memory.h
+++ b/include/trace/events/huge_memory.h
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 	EM( SCAN_PMD_NULL,		"pmd_null")			\
 	EM( SCAN_PMD_NONE,		"pmd_none")			\
 	EM( SCAN_PMD_MAPPED,		"page_pmd_mapped")		\
+	EM( SCAN_COW_PTE,		"cowed_pte")			\
 	EM( SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE,	"exceed_none_pte")		\
 	EM( SCAN_EXCEED_SWAP_PTE,	"exceed_swap_pte")		\
 	EM( SCAN_EXCEED_SHARED_PTE,	"exceed_shared_pte")		\
diff --git a/mm/khugepaged.c b/mm/khugepaged.c
index 90acfea40c13..1cddc20318d5 100644
--- a/mm/khugepaged.c
+++ b/mm/khugepaged.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ enum scan_result {
 	SCAN_PMD_NULL,
 	SCAN_PMD_NONE,
 	SCAN_PMD_MAPPED,
+	SCAN_COW_PTE,
 	SCAN_EXCEED_NONE_PTE,
 	SCAN_EXCEED_SWAP_PTE,
 	SCAN_EXCEED_SHARED_PTE,
@@ -875,7 +876,7 @@ static int find_pmd_or_thp_or_none(struct mm_struct *mm,
 		return SCAN_PMD_MAPPED;
 	if (pmd_devmap(pmde))
 		return SCAN_PMD_NULL;
-	if (pmd_bad(pmde))
+	if (pmd_write(pmde) && pmd_bad(pmde))
 		return SCAN_PMD_NULL;
 	return SCAN_SUCCEED;
 }
@@ -926,6 +927,8 @@ static int __collapse_huge_page_swapin(struct mm_struct *mm,
 			pte_unmap(vmf.pte);
 			continue;
 		}
+		if (break_cow_pte(vma, pmd, address))
+			return SCAN_COW_PTE;
 		ret = do_swap_page(&vmf);
 
 		/*
@@ -1038,6 +1041,9 @@ static int collapse_huge_page(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
 	if (result != SCAN_SUCCEED)
 		goto out_up_write;
 
+	/* We should already handled COW-ed PTE. */
+	VM_WARN_ON(test_bit(MMF_COW_PTE, &mm->flags) && !pmd_write(*pmd));
+
 	anon_vma_lock_write(vma->anon_vma);
 
 	mmu_notifier_range_init(&range, MMU_NOTIFY_CLEAR, 0, NULL, mm,
@@ -1148,6 +1154,13 @@ static int hpage_collapse_scan_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm,
 
 	memset(cc->node_load, 0, sizeof(cc->node_load));
 	nodes_clear(cc->alloc_nmask);
+
+	/* Break COW PTE before we collapse the pages. */
+	if (break_cow_pte(vma, pmd, address)) {
+		result = SCAN_COW_PTE;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	pte = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, address, &ptl);
 	for (_address = address, _pte = pte; _pte < pte + HPAGE_PMD_NR;
 	     _pte++, _address += PAGE_SIZE) {
@@ -1206,6 +1219,10 @@ static int hpage_collapse_scan_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm,
 			goto out_unmap;
 		}
 
+		/*
+		 * If we only trigger the break COW PTE, the page usually
+		 * still in COW mapping, which it still be shared.
+		 */
 		if (page_mapcount(page) > 1) {
 			++shared;
 			if (cc->is_khugepaged &&
@@ -1501,6 +1518,11 @@ int collapse_pte_mapped_thp(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
 		goto drop_hpage;
 	}
 
+	/* We shouldn't let COW-ed PTE collapse. */
+	if (break_cow_pte(vma, pmd, haddr))
+		goto drop_hpage;
+	VM_WARN_ON(test_bit(MMF_COW_PTE, &mm->flags) && !pmd_write(*pmd));
+
 	/*
 	 * We need to lock the mapping so that from here on, only GUP-fast and
 	 * hardware page walks can access the parts of the page tables that
@@ -1706,6 +1728,11 @@ static int retract_page_tables(struct address_space *mapping, pgoff_t pgoff,
 				result = SCAN_PTE_UFFD_WP;
 				goto unlock_next;
 			}
+			if (test_bit(MMF_COW_PTE, &mm->flags) &&
+			     !pmd_write(*pmd)) {
+				result = SCAN_COW_PTE;
+				goto unlock_next;
+			}
 			collapse_and_free_pmd(mm, vma, addr, pmd);
 			if (!cc->is_khugepaged && is_target)
 				result = set_huge_pmd(vma, addr, pmd, hpage);
@@ -2143,6 +2170,11 @@ static int hpage_collapse_scan_file(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
 	swap = 0;
 	memset(cc->node_load, 0, sizeof(cc->node_load));
 	nodes_clear(cc->alloc_nmask);
+	if (break_cow_pte(find_vma(mm, addr), NULL, addr)) {
+		result = SCAN_COW_PTE;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	xas_for_each(&xas, page, start + HPAGE_PMD_NR - 1) {
 		if (xas_retry(&xas, page))
@@ -2213,6 +2245,7 @@ static int hpage_collapse_scan_file(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
 	}
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 
+out:
 	if (result == SCAN_SUCCEED) {
 		if (cc->is_khugepaged &&
 		    present < HPAGE_PMD_NR - khugepaged_max_ptes_none) {
-- 
2.34.1