From 4fe51e9e7902b5724b618dadd9527b1bbf2b55cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Hellstrom Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 13:12:30 +0100 Subject: mm: Add write-protect and clean utilities for address space ranges MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Add two utilities to a) write-protect and b) clean all ptes pointing into a range of an address space. The utilities are intended to aid in tracking dirty pages (either driver-allocated system memory or pci device memory). The write-protect utility should be used in conjunction with page_mkwrite() and pfn_mkwrite() to trigger write page-faults on page accesses. Typically one would want to use this on sparse accesses into large memory regions. The clean utility should be used to utilize hardware dirtying functionality and avoid the overhead of page-faults, typically on large accesses into small memory regions. The added file "as_dirty_helpers.c" is initially listed as maintained by VMware under our DRM driver. If somebody would like it elsewhere, that's of course no problem. Notable changes since RFC: - Added comments to help avoid the usage of these function for VMAs it's not intended for. We also do advisory checks on the vm_flags and warn on illegal usage. - Perform the pte modifications the same way softdirty does. - Add mmu_notifier range invalidation calls. - Add a config option so that this code is not unconditionally included. - Tell the mmu_gather code about pending tlb flushes. Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Huang Ying Cc: Souptick Joarder Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom Reviewed-by: Ralph Campbell #v1 --- include/linux/mm.h | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 3d06ce2a64af..a0bc2a82917e 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -2685,7 +2685,14 @@ struct pfn_range_apply { }; extern int apply_to_pfn_range(struct pfn_range_apply *closure, unsigned long address, unsigned long size); - +unsigned long apply_as_wrprotect(struct address_space *mapping, + pgoff_t first_index, pgoff_t nr); +unsigned long apply_as_clean(struct address_space *mapping, + pgoff_t first_index, pgoff_t nr, + pgoff_t bitmap_pgoff, + unsigned long *bitmap, + pgoff_t *start, + pgoff_t *end); #ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING extern bool page_poisoning_enabled(void); extern void kernel_poison_pages(struct page *page, int numpages, int enable); -- cgit v1.2.3