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authorMatthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>2015-02-17 02:58:50 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-02-17 04:56:03 +0300
commit2e4cdab0584fa884e0a81c4f45b93ce875c9fcaa (patch)
treec20a4224ed2ac8d5e9416c7fcc451cc144025626 /include/linux/mm.h
parent283307c7607de2a06d3bfae4cfbf5a566d457090 (diff)
downloadlinux-2e4cdab0584fa884e0a81c4f45b93ce875c9fcaa.tar.xz
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>
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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