On 27/03/2018 23:18, David Rientjes wrote:

On Tue, 13 Mar 2018, Laurent Dufour wrote:

quoted

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 2f3e98edc94a..b6432a261e63 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h

@@ -1199,6 +1199,7 @@ static inline void clear_page_pfmemalloc(struct page *page)
 #define VM_FAULT_NEEDDSYNC  0x2000	/* ->fault did not modify page tables
 					 * and needs fsync() to complete (for
 					 * synchronous page faults in DAX) */
+#define VM_FAULT_PTNOTSAME 0x4000	/* Page table entries have changed */
 
 #define VM_FAULT_ERROR	(VM_FAULT_OOM | VM_FAULT_SIGBUS | VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV | \
 			 VM_FAULT_HWPOISON | VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE | \

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 21b1212a0892..4bc7b0bdcb40 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c

@@ -2309,21 +2309,29 @@ static bool pte_map_lock(struct vm_fault *vmf)
  * parts, do_swap_page must check under lock before unmapping the pte and
  * proceeding (but do_wp_page is only called after already making such a check;
  * and do_anonymous_page can safely check later on).
+ *
+ * pte_unmap_same() returns:
+ *	0			if the PTE are the same
+ *	VM_FAULT_PTNOTSAME	if the PTE are different
+ *	VM_FAULT_RETRY		if the VMA has changed in our back during
+ *				a speculative page fault handling.
  */
-static inline int pte_unmap_same(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd,
-				pte_t *page_table, pte_t orig_pte)
+static inline int pte_unmap_same(struct vm_fault *vmf)
 {
-	int same = 1;
+	int ret = 0;
+
 #if defined(CONFIG_SMP) || defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT)
 	if (sizeof(pte_t) > sizeof(unsigned long)) {
-		spinlock_t *ptl = pte_lockptr(mm, pmd);
-		spin_lock(ptl);
-		same = pte_same(*page_table, orig_pte);
-		spin_unlock(ptl);
+		if (pte_spinlock(vmf)) {
+			if (!pte_same(*vmf->pte, vmf->orig_pte))
+				ret = VM_FAULT_PTNOTSAME;
+			spin_unlock(vmf->ptl);
+		} else
+			ret = VM_FAULT_RETRY;
 	}
 #endif
-	pte_unmap(page_table);
-	return same;
+	pte_unmap(vmf->pte);
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static inline void cow_user_page(struct page *dst, struct page *src, unsigned long va, struct vm_area_struct *vma)

@@ -2913,7 +2921,8 @@ int do_swap_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
 	int exclusive = 0;
 	int ret = 0;

Initialization is now unneeded.

I'm sorry, what "initialization" are you talking about here ?

Otherwise:

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>

Thanks,
Laurent.