[PATCH v7 04/24] mm: Dont assume page-table invariance during faults

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 03:35:58PM +0100, Laurent Dufour wrote:
> I reviewed that part of code, and I think I could now change the way
> pte_unmap_safe() is checking for the pte's value. Since we now have all the
> needed details in the vm_fault structure, I will pass it to
> pte_unamp_same() and deal with the VMA checks when locking for the pte as
> it is done in the other part of the page fault handler by calling
> pte_spinlock().

This does indeed look much better!  Thank you!

> This means that this patch will be dropped, and pte_unmap_same() will become :
> 
> static inline int pte_unmap_same(struct vm_fault *vmf, int *same)
> {
> 	int ret = 0;
> 
> 	*same = 1;
> #if defined(CONFIG_SMP) || defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT)
> 	if (sizeof(pte_t) > sizeof(unsigned long)) {
> 		if (pte_spinlock(vmf)) {
> 			*same = pte_same(*vmf->pte, vmf->orig_pte);
> 			spin_unlock(vmf->ptl);
> 		}
> 		else
> 			ret = VM_FAULT_RETRY;
> 	}
> #endif
> 	pte_unmap(vmf->pte);
> 	return ret;
> }

I'm not a huge fan of auxiliary return values.  Perhaps we could do this
instead:

	ret = pte_unmap_same(vmf);
	if (ret != VM_FAULT_NOTSAME) {
		if (page)
			put_page(page);
		goto out;
	}
	ret = 0;

(we have a lot of unused bits in VM_FAULT_, so adding a new one shouldn't
be a big deal)