On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 01:40:18PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:

On Tue, 3 Apr 2018, Jerome Glisse wrote:

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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.
  */

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This change what do_swap_page() returns ie before it was returning 0
when locked pte lookup was different from orig_pte. After this patch
it returns VM_FAULT_PTNOTSAME but this is a new return value for
handle_mm_fault() (the do_swap_page() return value is what ultimately
get return by handle_mm_fault())

Do we really want that ? This might confuse some existing user of
handle_mm_fault() and i am not sure of the value of that information
to caller.

Note i do understand that you want to return retry if anything did
change from underneath and thus need to differentiate from when the
pte value are not the same.

I think VM_FAULT_RETRY should be handled appropriately for any user of 
handle_mm_fault() already, and would be surprised to learn differently.  
Khugepaged has the appropriate handling.  I think the concern is whether a 
user is handling anything other than VM_FAULT_RETRY and VM_FAULT_ERROR 
(which VM_FAULT_PTNOTSAME is not set in)?  I haven't done a full audit of 
the users.

I am not worried about VM_FAULT_RETRY and barely have any worry about
VM_FAULT_PTNOTSAME either as they are other comparable new return value
(VM_FAULT_NEEDDSYNC for instance which is quite recent).

I wonder if adding a new value is really needed here. I don't see any
value to it for caller of handle_mm_fault() except for stats.

Note that I am not oppose, but while today we have free bits, maybe
tomorrow we will run out, i am always worried about thing like that :)

Cheers,
Jérôme