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There are several cases write protection fault happens. It could be a write to zero page, swaped page or userfault write protected page. When the fault happens, there is no way to know if userfault write protect the page before. Here we just blindly issue a userfault notification for vma with VM_UFFD_WP regardless if app write protects it yet. Application should be ready to handle such wp fault. In the swapin case, always swapin as readonly. This will cause false positive userfaults. We need to decide later if to eliminate them with a flag like soft-dirty in the swap entry (see _PAGE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY). hugetlbfs wouldn't need to worry about swapouts but and tmpfs would be handled by a swap entry bit like anonymous memory. The main problem with no easy solution to eliminate the false positives, will be if/when userfaultfd is extended to real filesystem pagecache. When the pagecache is freed by reclaim we can't leave the radix tree pinned if the inode and in turn the radix tree is reclaimed as well. The estimation is that full accuracy and lack of false positives could be easily provided only to anonymous memory (as long as there's no fork or as long as MADV_DONTFORK is used on the userfaultfd anonymous range) tmpfs and hugetlbfs, it's most certainly worth to achieve it but in a later incremental patch. [peterx@redhat.com: don't conditionally drop FAULT_FLAG_WRITE in do_swap_page] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> Cc: Bobby Powers <bobbypowers@gmail.com> Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Denis Plotnikov <dplotnikov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> Cc: Marty McFadden <mcfadden8@llnl.gov> Cc: Maya Gokhale <gokhale2@llnl.gov> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200220163112.11409-3-peterx@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.