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author | Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> | 2013-09-12 01:21:04 +0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-09-12 02:57:27 +0400 |
commit | 37a2140dc2145a6f154172286944a1861e978dfd (patch) | |
tree | 8efc5e90bd85c02adc5915b22e1c9d57ba9e1d03 /fs/ext4/symlink.c | |
parent | c0d934ba278935fa751057091fe4a7c02d814f68 (diff) | |
download | linux-37a2140dc2145a6f154172286944a1861e978dfd.tar.xz |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ext4/symlink.c')
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