[PATCH v9 1/3] mm/mmap: separate writenotify and dirty tracking logic

[Lorenzo Stoakes]

vma_wants_writenotify() is specifically intended for setting PTE page table
flags, accounting for existing page table flag state and whether the
underlying filesystem performs dirty tracking for a file-backed mapping.

Everything is predicated firstly on whether the mapping is shared writable,
as this is the only instance where dirty tracking is pertinent -
MAP_PRIVATE mappings will always be CoW'd and unshared, and read-only
file-backed shared mappings cannot be written to, even with FOLL_FORCE.

All other checks are in line with existing logic, though now separated into
checks eplicitily for dirty tracking and those for determining how to set
page table flags.

We make this change so we can perform checks in the GUP logic to determine
which mappings might be problematic when written to.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Mika Penttilä <mpenttil@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/linux/mm.h |  1 +
 mm/mmap.c          | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 2 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 27ce77080c79..7b1d4e7393ef 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -2422,6 +2422,7 @@ extern unsigned long move_page_tables(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 #define  MM_CP_UFFD_WP_ALL                 (MM_CP_UFFD_WP | \
 					    MM_CP_UFFD_WP_RESOLVE)
 
+bool vma_needs_dirty_tracking(struct vm_area_struct *vma);
 int vma_wants_writenotify(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pgprot_t vm_page_prot);
 static inline bool vma_wants_manual_pte_write_upgrade(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 {
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 13678edaa22c..8ef5929057fc 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -1475,6 +1475,48 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(old_mmap, struct mmap_arg_struct __user *, arg)
 }
 #endif /* __ARCH_WANT_SYS_OLD_MMAP */
 
+static bool vm_ops_needs_writenotify(const struct vm_operations_struct *vm_ops)
+{
+	return vm_ops && (vm_ops->page_mkwrite || vm_ops->pfn_mkwrite);
+}
+
+static bool vma_is_shared_writable(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+	return (vma->vm_flags & (VM_WRITE | VM_SHARED)) ==
+		(VM_WRITE | VM_SHARED);
+}
+
+static bool vma_fs_can_writeback(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+	/* No managed pages to writeback. */
+	if (vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP)
+		return false;
+
+	return vma->vm_file && vma->vm_file->f_mapping &&
+		mapping_can_writeback(vma->vm_file->f_mapping);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Does this VMA require the underlying folios to have their dirty state
+ * tracked?
+ */
+bool vma_needs_dirty_tracking(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+	/* Only shared, writable VMAs require dirty tracking. */
+	if (!vma_is_shared_writable(vma))
+		return false;
+
+	/* Does the filesystem need to be notified? */
+	if (vm_ops_needs_writenotify(vma->vm_ops))
+		return true;
+
+	/*
+	 * Even if the filesystem doesn't indicate a need for writenotify, if it
+	 * can writeback, dirty tracking is still required.
+	 */
+	return vma_fs_can_writeback(vma);
+}
+
 /*
  * Some shared mappings will want the pages marked read-only
  * to track write events. If so, we'll downgrade vm_page_prot
@@ -1483,21 +1525,18 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(old_mmap, struct mmap_arg_struct __user *, arg)
  */
 int vma_wants_writenotify(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pgprot_t vm_page_prot)
 {
-	vm_flags_t vm_flags = vma->vm_flags;
-	const struct vm_operations_struct *vm_ops = vma->vm_ops;
-
 	/* If it was private or non-writable, the write bit is already clear */
-	if ((vm_flags & (VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED)) != ((VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED)))
+	if (!vma_is_shared_writable(vma))
 		return 0;
 
 	/* The backer wishes to know when pages are first written to? */
-	if (vm_ops && (vm_ops->page_mkwrite || vm_ops->pfn_mkwrite))
+	if (vm_ops_needs_writenotify(vma->vm_ops))
 		return 1;
 
 	/* The open routine did something to the protections that pgprot_modify
 	 * won't preserve? */
 	if (pgprot_val(vm_page_prot) !=
-	    pgprot_val(vm_pgprot_modify(vm_page_prot, vm_flags)))
+	    pgprot_val(vm_pgprot_modify(vm_page_prot, vma->vm_flags)))
 		return 0;
 
 	/*
@@ -1511,13 +1550,8 @@ int vma_wants_writenotify(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pgprot_t vm_page_prot)
 	if (userfaultfd_wp(vma))
 		return 1;
 
-	/* Specialty mapping? */
-	if (vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP)
-		return 0;
-
 	/* Can the mapping track the dirty pages? */
-	return vma->vm_file && vma->vm_file->f_mapping &&
-		mapping_can_writeback(vma->vm_file->f_mapping);
+	return vma_fs_can_writeback(vma);
 }
 
 /*
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