[PATCH v1 RESEND 0/6] mm: (pte|pmd)_mkdirty() should not unconditionally allow for write access

From: David Hildenbrand
Date: Tue Apr 11 2023 - 10:26:10 EST


This is the follow-up on [1], adding selftests (testing for known issues
we added workarounds for and other issues that haven't been fixed yet),
fixing sparc64, reverting the workarounds, and perform one cleanup.

The patch from [1] was modified slightly (updated/extended patch
description, dropped one unnecessary NOP instruction from the ASM in
__pte_mkhwwrite()).

Retested on x86_64 and sparc64 (sun4u in QEMU).

I scanned most architectures to make sure their (pte|pmd)_mkdirty()
handling is correct. To be sure, we can run the selftests and find out if
other architectures are still affectes (loongarch was fixed recently as
well).

Based on master for now. I don't expect surprises regarding mm-tress, but
I can rebase if there are any problems.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221212130213.136267-1-david@xxxxxxxxxx

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx>

David Hildenbrand (6):
selftests/mm: reuse read_pmd_pagesize() in COW selftest
selftests/mm: mkdirty: test behavior of (pte|pmd)_mkdirty on VMAs
without write permissions
sparc/mm: don't unconditionally set HW writable bit when setting PTE
dirty on 64bit
mm/migrate: revert "mm/migrate: fix wrongly apply write bit after
mkdirty on sparc64"
mm/huge_memory: revert "Partly revert "mm/thp: carry over dirty bit
when thp splits on pmd""
mm/huge_memory: conditionally call maybe_mkwrite() and drop
pte_wrprotect() in __split_huge_pmd_locked()

arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h | 116 +++---
mm/huge_memory.c | 16 +-
mm/migrate.c | 2 -
tools/testing/selftests/mm/Makefile | 2 +
tools/testing/selftests/mm/cow.c | 33 +-
tools/testing/selftests/mm/khugepaged.c | 4 +
tools/testing/selftests/mm/mkdirty.c | 379 ++++++++++++++++++
tools/testing/selftests/mm/soft-dirty.c | 3 +
.../selftests/mm/split_huge_page_test.c | 4 +
tools/testing/selftests/mm/vm_util.c | 4 +-
10 files changed, 468 insertions(+), 95 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/mm/mkdirty.c

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