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| author | Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com> | 2015-02-16 15:58:50 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-02-16 17:56:03 -0800 |
| commit | 2e4cdab0584fa884e0a81c4f45b93ce875c9fcaa (patch) | |
| tree | c20a4224ed2ac8d5e9416c7fcc451cc144025626 /include/linux/mm.h | |
| parent | 283307c7607de2a06d3bfae4cfbf5a566d457090 (diff) | |
mm: allow page fault handlers to perform the COW
Currently COW of an XIP file is done by first bringing in a read-only
mapping, then retrying the fault and copying the page. It is much more
efficient to tell the fault handler that a COW is being attempted (by
passing in the pre-allocated page in the vm_fault structure), and allow
the handler to perform the COW operation itself.
The handler cannot insert the page itself if there is already a read-only
mapping at that address, so allow the handler to return VM_FAULT_LOCKED
and set the fault_page to be NULL. This indicates to the MM code that the
i_mmap_lock is held instead of the page lock.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mm.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 9bee7ec0c31f..47a93928b90f 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -224,6 +224,7 @@ struct vm_fault { pgoff_t pgoff; /* Logical page offset based on vma */ void __user *virtual_address; /* Faulting virtual address */ + struct page *cow_page; /* Handler may choose to COW */ struct page *page; /* ->fault handlers should return a * page here, unless VM_FAULT_NOPAGE * is set (which is also implied by |