[PATCH] mm: tracking shared dirty pages

Tracking of dirty pages in shared writeable mmap()s.

The idea is simple: write protect clean shared writeable pages, catch the
write-fault, make writeable and set dirty.  On page write-back clean all the
PTE dirty bits and write protect them once again.

The implementation is a tad harder, mainly because the default
backing_dev_info capabilities were too loosely maintained.  Hence it is not
enough to test the backing_dev_info for cap_account_dirty.

The current heuristic is as follows, a VMA is eligible when:
 - its shared writeable
    (vm_flags & (VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED)) == (VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED)
 - it is not a 'special' mapping
    (vm_flags & (VM_PFNMAP|VM_INSERTPAGE)) == 0
 - the backing_dev_info is cap_account_dirty
    mapping_cap_account_dirty(vma->vm_file->f_mapping)
 - f_op->mmap() didn't change the default page protection

Page from remap_pfn_range() are explicitly excluded because their COW
semantics are already horrid enough (see vm_normal_page() in do_wp_page()) and
because they don't have a backing store anyway.

mprotect() is taught about the new behaviour as well.  However it overrides
the last condition.

Cleaning the pages on write-back is done with page_mkclean() a new rmap call.
It can be called on any page, but is currently only implemented for mapped
pages, if the page is found the be of a VMA that accounts dirty pages it will
also wrprotect the PTE.

Finally, in fs/buffers.c:try_to_free_buffers(); remove clear_page_dirty() from
under ->private_lock.  This seems to be safe, since ->private_lock is used to
serialize access to the buffers, not the page itself.  This is needed because
clear_page_dirty() will call into page_mkclean() and would thereby violate
locking order.

[dhowells@redhat.com: Provide a page_mkclean() implementation for NOMMU]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

fs/buffer.c

@@ -2987,6 +2987,7 @@ int try_to_free_buffers(struct page *page)
 
 	spin_lock(&mapping->private_lock);
 	ret = drop_buffers(page, &buffers_to_free);
+	spin_unlock(&mapping->private_lock);
 	if (ret) {
 		/*
 		 * If the filesystem writes its buffers by hand (eg ext3)
@@ -2998,7 +2999,6 @@ int try_to_free_buffers(struct page *page)
 		 */
 		clear_page_dirty(page);
 	}
-	spin_unlock(&mapping->private_lock);
 out:
 	if (buffers_to_free) {
 		struct buffer_head *bh = buffers_to_free;

include/linux/mm.h

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include <linux/fs.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
 #include <linux/debug_locks.h>
+#include <linux/backing-dev.h>
 
 struct mempolicy;
 struct anon_vma;
@@ -810,6 +811,39 @@ struct shrinker;
 extern struct shrinker *set_shrinker(int, shrinker_t);
 extern void remove_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker);
 
+/*
+ * Some shared mappigns will want the pages marked read-only
+ * to track write events. If so, we'll downgrade vm_page_prot
+ * to the private version (using protection_map[] without the
+ * VM_SHARED bit).
+ */
+static inline int vma_wants_writenotify(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+	unsigned int vm_flags = vma->vm_flags;
+
+	/* If it was private or non-writable, the write bit is already clear */
+	if ((vm_flags & (VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED)) != ((VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED)))
+		return 0;
+
+	/* The backer wishes to know when pages are first written to? */
+	if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->page_mkwrite)
+		return 1;
+
+	/* The open routine did something to the protections already? */
+	if (pgprot_val(vma->vm_page_prot) !=
+	    pgprot_val(protection_map[vm_flags &
+		    (VM_READ|VM_WRITE|VM_EXEC|VM_SHARED)]))
+		return 0;
+
+	/* Specialty mapping? */
+	if (vm_flags & (VM_PFNMAP|VM_INSERTPAGE))
+		return 0;
+
+	/* Can the mapping track the dirty pages? */
+	return vma->vm_file && vma->vm_file->f_mapping &&
+		mapping_cap_account_dirty(vma->vm_file->f_mapping);
+}
+
 extern pte_t *FASTCALL(get_locked_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, spinlock_t **ptl));
 
 int __pud_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd, unsigned long address);

include/linux/rmap.h

@@ -103,6 +103,14 @@ pte_t *page_check_address(struct page *, struct mm_struct *,
  */
 unsigned long page_address_in_vma(struct page *, struct vm_area_struct *);
 
+/*
+ * Cleans the PTEs of shared mappings.
+ * (and since clean PTEs should also be readonly, write protects them too)
+ *
+ * returns the number of cleaned PTEs.
+ */
+int page_mkclean(struct page *);
+
 #else	/* !CONFIG_MMU */
 
 #define anon_vma_init()		do {} while (0)
@@ -112,6 +120,12 @@ unsigned long page_address_in_vma(struct page *, struct vm_area_struct *);
 #define page_referenced(page,l) TestClearPageReferenced(page)
 #define try_to_unmap(page, refs) SWAP_FAIL
 
+static inline int page_mkclean(struct page *page)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+
+
 #endif	/* CONFIG_MMU */
 
 /*

mm/memory.c

@@ -1458,14 +1458,19 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 {
 	struct page *old_page, *new_page;
 	pte_t entry;
-	int reuse, ret = VM_FAULT_MINOR;
+	int reuse = 0, ret = VM_FAULT_MINOR;
+	struct page *dirty_page = NULL;
 
 	old_page = vm_normal_page(vma, address, orig_pte);
 	if (!old_page)
 		goto gotten;
 
-	if (unlikely((vma->vm_flags & (VM_SHARED|VM_WRITE)) ==
+	/*
-				(VM_SHARED|VM_WRITE))) {
+	 * Only catch write-faults on shared writable pages, read-only
+	 * shared pages can get COWed by get_user_pages(.write=1, .force=1).
+	 */
+	if (unlikely((vma->vm_flags & (VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED)) ==
+					(VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED))) {
 		if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->page_mkwrite) {
 			/*
 			 * Notify the address space that the page is about to
@@ -1494,13 +1499,12 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 			if (!pte_same(*page_table, orig_pte))
 				goto unlock;
 		}
-
+		dirty_page = old_page;
+		get_page(dirty_page);
 		reuse = 1;
 	} else if (PageAnon(old_page) && !TestSetPageLocked(old_page)) {
 		reuse = can_share_swap_page(old_page);
 		unlock_page(old_page);
-	} else {
-		reuse = 0;
 	}
 
 	if (reuse) {
@@ -1566,6 +1570,10 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		page_cache_release(old_page);
 unlock:
 	pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl);
+	if (dirty_page) {
+		set_page_dirty(dirty_page);
+		put_page(dirty_page);
+	}
 	return ret;
 oom:
 	if (old_page)
@@ -2098,6 +2106,7 @@ static int do_no_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	unsigned int sequence = 0;
 	int ret = VM_FAULT_MINOR;
 	int anon = 0;
+	struct page *dirty_page = NULL;
 
 	pte_unmap(page_table);
 	BUG_ON(vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP);
@@ -2192,6 +2201,10 @@ static int do_no_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		} else {
 			inc_mm_counter(mm, file_rss);
 			page_add_file_rmap(new_page);
+			if (write_access) {
+				dirty_page = new_page;
+				get_page(dirty_page);
+			}
 		}
 	} else {
 		/* One of our sibling threads was faster, back out. */
@@ -2204,6 +2217,10 @@ static int do_no_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	lazy_mmu_prot_update(entry);
 unlock:
 	pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl);
+	if (dirty_page) {
+		set_page_dirty(dirty_page);
+		put_page(dirty_page);
+	}
 	return ret;
 oom:
 	page_cache_release(new_page);

mm/mmap.c

@@ -1105,12 +1105,6 @@ unsigned long do_mmap_pgoff(struct file * file, unsigned long addr,
 			goto free_vma;
 	}
 
-	/* Don't make the VMA automatically writable if it's shared, but the
-	 * backer wishes to know when pages are first written to */
-	if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->page_mkwrite)
-		vma->vm_page_prot =
-			protection_map[vm_flags & (VM_READ|VM_WRITE|VM_EXEC)];
-
 	/* We set VM_ACCOUNT in a shared mapping's vm_flags, to inform
 	 * shmem_zero_setup (perhaps called through /dev/zero's ->mmap)
 	 * that memory reservation must be checked; but that reservation
@@ -1128,6 +1122,10 @@ unsigned long do_mmap_pgoff(struct file * file, unsigned long addr,
 	pgoff = vma->vm_pgoff;
 	vm_flags = vma->vm_flags;
 
+	if (vma_wants_writenotify(vma))
+		vma->vm_page_prot =
+			protection_map[vm_flags & (VM_READ|VM_WRITE|VM_EXEC)];
+
 	if (!file || !vma_merge(mm, prev, addr, vma->vm_end,
 			vma->vm_flags, NULL, file, pgoff, vma_policy(vma))) {
 		file = vma->vm_file;

mm/mprotect.c

@@ -123,8 +123,6 @@ mprotect_fixup(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_area_struct **pprev,
 	unsigned long oldflags = vma->vm_flags;
 	long nrpages = (end - start) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 	unsigned long charged = 0;
-	unsigned int mask;
-	pgprot_t newprot;
 	pgoff_t pgoff;
 	int error;
 
@@ -176,24 +174,21 @@ mprotect_fixup(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_area_struct **pprev,
 	}
 
 success:
-	/* Don't make the VMA automatically writable if it's shared, but the
-	 * backer wishes to know when pages are first written to */
-	mask = VM_READ|VM_WRITE|VM_EXEC|VM_SHARED;
-	if (vma->vm_ops && vma->vm_ops->page_mkwrite)
-		mask &= ~VM_SHARED;
-
-	newprot = protection_map[newflags & mask];
-
 	/*
 	 * vm_flags and vm_page_prot are protected by the mmap_sem
 	 * held in write mode.
 	 */
 	vma->vm_flags = newflags;
-	vma->vm_page_prot = newprot;
+	vma->vm_page_prot = protection_map[newflags &
+		(VM_READ|VM_WRITE|VM_EXEC|VM_SHARED)];
+	if (vma_wants_writenotify(vma))
+		vma->vm_page_prot = protection_map[newflags &
+			(VM_READ|VM_WRITE|VM_EXEC)];
+
 	if (is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma))
-		hugetlb_change_protection(vma, start, end, newprot);
+		hugetlb_change_protection(vma, start, end, vma->vm_page_prot);
 	else
-		change_protection(vma, start, end, newprot);
+		change_protection(vma, start, end, vma->vm_page_prot);
 	vm_stat_account(mm, oldflags, vma->vm_file, -nrpages);
 	vm_stat_account(mm, newflags, vma->vm_file, nrpages);
 	return 0;

mm/page-writeback.c

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include <linux/backing-dev.h>
 #include <linux/blkdev.h>
 #include <linux/mpage.h>
+#include <linux/rmap.h>
 #include <linux/percpu.h>
 #include <linux/notifier.h>
 #include <linux/smp.h>
@@ -550,7 +551,7 @@ int do_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc)
 		return 0;
 	wbc->for_writepages = 1;
 	if (mapping->a_ops->writepages)
-		ret =  mapping->a_ops->writepages(mapping, wbc);
+		ret = mapping->a_ops->writepages(mapping, wbc);
 	else
 		ret = generic_writepages(mapping, wbc);
 	wbc->for_writepages = 0;
@@ -712,9 +713,15 @@ int test_clear_page_dirty(struct page *page)
 			radix_tree_tag_clear(&mapping->page_tree,
 						page_index(page),
 						PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
-			if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping))
-				__dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
 			write_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
+			/*
+			 * We can continue to use `mapping' here because the
+			 * page is locked, which pins the address_space
+			 */
+			if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
+				page_mkclean(page);
+				dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
+			}
 			return 1;
 		}
 		write_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
@@ -744,8 +751,10 @@ int clear_page_dirty_for_io(struct page *page)
 
 	if (mapping) {
 		if (TestClearPageDirty(page)) {
-			if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping))
+			if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) {
+				page_mkclean(page);
 				dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);
+			}
 			return 1;
 		}
 		return 0;

mm/rmap.c

@@ -434,6 +434,71 @@ int page_referenced(struct page *page, int is_locked)
 	return referenced;
 }
 
+static int page_mkclean_one(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+	struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
+	unsigned long address;
+	pte_t *pte, entry;
+	spinlock_t *ptl;
+	int ret = 0;
+
+	address = vma_address(page, vma);
+	if (address == -EFAULT)
+		goto out;
+
+	pte = page_check_address(page, mm, address, &ptl);
+	if (!pte)
+		goto out;
+
+	if (!pte_dirty(*pte) && !pte_write(*pte))
+		goto unlock;
+
+	entry = ptep_get_and_clear(mm, address, pte);
+	entry = pte_mkclean(entry);
+	entry = pte_wrprotect(entry);
+	ptep_establish(vma, address, pte, entry);
+	lazy_mmu_prot_update(entry);
+	ret = 1;
+
+unlock:
+	pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl);
+out:
+	return ret;
+}
+
+static int page_mkclean_file(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
+{
+	pgoff_t pgoff = page->index << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT);
+	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
+	struct prio_tree_iter iter;
+	int ret = 0;
+
+	BUG_ON(PageAnon(page));
+
+	spin_lock(&mapping->i_mmap_lock);
+	vma_prio_tree_foreach(vma, &iter, &mapping->i_mmap, pgoff, pgoff) {
+		if (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)
+			ret += page_mkclean_one(page, vma);
+	}
+	spin_unlock(&mapping->i_mmap_lock);
+	return ret;
+}
+
+int page_mkclean(struct page *page)
+{
+	int ret = 0;
+
+	BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page));
+
+	if (page_mapped(page)) {
+		struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
+		if (mapping)
+			ret = page_mkclean_file(mapping, page);
+	}
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
 /**
  * page_set_anon_rmap - setup new anonymous rmap
  * @page:	the page to add the mapping to