[v1,6/6] mm/huge_memory: conditionally call maybe_mkwrite() and drop pte_wrprotect() in __split_huge_pmd_locked()

Commit Message

David Hildenbrand April 11, 2023, 2:15 p.m. UTC

No need to call maybe_mkwrite() to then wrprotect if the source PMD was not
writable.

It's worth nothing that this now allows for PTEs to be writable even if
the source PMD was not writable: if vma->vm_page_prot includes write
permissions.

As documented in commit 931298e103c2 ("mm/userfaultfd: rely on
vma->vm_page_prot in uffd_wp_range()"), any mechanism that intends to
have pages wrprotected (COW, writenotify, mprotect, uffd-wp, softdirty,
...) has to properly adjust vma->vm_page_prot upfront, to not include
write permissions. If vma->vm_page_prot includes write permissions, the
PTE/PMD can be writable as default.

This now mimics the handling in mm/migrate.c:remove_migration_pte() and in
mm/huge_memory.c:remove_migration_pmd(), which has been in place for a
long time (except that 96a9c287e25d ("mm/migrate: fix wrongly apply write
bit after mkdirty on sparc64") temporarily changed it).

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <[e-mail]>
---
 mm/huge_memory.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 6f3af65435c8..8332e16ac97b 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -2235,11 +2235,10 @@  static void __split_huge_pmd_locked(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
 				entry = pte_swp_mkuffd_wp(entry);
 		} else {
 			entry = mk_pte(page + i, READ_ONCE(vma->vm_page_prot));
-			entry = maybe_mkwrite(entry, vma);
+			if (write)
+				entry = maybe_mkwrite(entry, vma);
 			if (anon_exclusive)
 				SetPageAnonExclusive(page + i);
-			if (!write)
-				entry = pte_wrprotect(entry);
 			if (!young)
 				entry = pte_mkold(entry);
 			/* NOTE: this may set soft-dirty too on some archs */