tree 8efc5e90bd85c02adc5915b22e1c9d57ba9e1d03
parent c0d934ba278935fa751057091fe4a7c02d814f68
author Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> 1378934464 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1378940247 -0700

mm, hugetlb: do not use a page in page cache for cow optimization

Currently, we use a page with mapped count 1 in page cache for cow
optimization.  If we find this condition, we don't allocate a new page and
copy contents.  Instead, we map this page directly.  This may introduce a
problem that writting to private mapping overwrite hugetlb file directly.
You can find this situation with following code.

        size = 20 * MB;
        flag = MAP_SHARED;
        p = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, flag, fd, 0);
        if (p == MAP_FAILED) {
                fprintf(stderr, "mmap() failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
                return -1;
        }
        p[0] = 's';
        fprintf(stdout, "BEFORE STEAL PRIVATE WRITE: %c\n", p[0]);
        munmap(p, size);

        flag = MAP_PRIVATE;
        p = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, flag, fd, 0);
        if (p == MAP_FAILED) {
                fprintf(stderr, "mmap() failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
        }
        p[0] = 'c';
        munmap(p, size);

        flag = MAP_SHARED;
        p = mmap(NULL, size, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, flag, fd, 0);
        if (p == MAP_FAILED) {
                fprintf(stderr, "mmap() failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
                return -1;
        }
        fprintf(stdout, "AFTER STEAL PRIVATE WRITE: %c\n", p[0]);
        munmap(p, size);

We can see that "AFTER STEAL PRIVATE WRITE: c", not "AFTER STEAL PRIVATE
WRITE: s".  If we turn off this optimization to a page in page cache, the
problem is disappeared.

So, I change the trigger condition of optimization.  If this page is not
AnonPage, we don't do optimization.  This makes this optimization turning
off for a page cache.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>