2023-07-25 09:27:54

by Muhammad Usama Anjum

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Subject: Re: [v3] fs/proc/task_mmu: Implement IOCTL for efficient page table scanning

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Michal please post your thoughts before I post this as v26.
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This IOCTL, PAGEMAP_SCAN on pagemap file can be used to get and/or clear
the info about page table entries. The following operations are supported
in this ioctl:
- Get the information if the pages have been written-to (PAGE_IS_WRITTEN),
file mapped (PAGE_IS_FILE), present (PAGE_IS_PRESENT), swapped
(PAGE_IS_SWAPPED) or page has pfn zero (PAGE_IS_PFNZERO).
- Find pages which have been written-to and/or write protect the pages
(atomic PM_SCAN_OP_GET + PM_SCAN_OP_WP)

This IOCTL can be extended to get information about more PTE bits. The
entire address range passed by user [start, end) is scanned until either
the user provided buffer is full or max_pages have been found.

Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <[email protected]>
---
Didn't added Andrei Vagin's reviewed-by tag as he'll need to review
again after Michal's input.

Changes in v26:
The changes are:

1. the API:
a. return ranges as {begin, end} instead of {begin + len};
b. rename match "flags" to 'page categories' everywhere - this makes
it easier to differentiate the ioctl()s categorisation of pages
from struct page flags;
c. change {required + excluded} to {inverted + required}. This was
rejected before, but I'd like to illustrate the difference.
Old interface can be translated to the new by:
categories_inverted = excluded_mask
categories_mask = required_mask | excluded_mask
categories_anyof_mask = anyof_mask
The new way allows filtering by: A & (B | !C)
categories_inverted = C
categories_mask = A
categories_anyof_mask = B | C
e. allow no-op calls

2. the implementation:
a. gather the page-categorising and write-protecting code in one place;
b. optimization: add whole-vma skipping for WP usecase;
c. extracted output limiting code to pagemap_scan_output();
d. extracted range coalescing to pagemap_scan_push_range();
e. extracted THP entry handling to pagemap_scan_thp_entry();
f. added a shortcut for non-WP hugetlb scan; avoids conditional
locking;
g. extracted scan buffer handling code out of do_pagemap_scan();
h. rework output code to always try to write pending ranges; if EFAULT
is generated it always overwrites the original error code;
(the case of SIGKILL is needlessly trying to write the output
now, but this should be rare case and ignoring it makes the code
not needing a goto)

1. Change no-GET operation condition from `arg.return_mask == 0` to
`arg.vec == NULL`. This will allow issuing the ioctl with
return_mask == 0 to gather matching ranges when the exact category
is not interesting. (Anticipated for CRIU scanning a large sparse
anonymous mapping).

- Fix the wrong breaking of loop if page isn't interesting, skip intsead
- Untag the address and save them into struct
- Round off the end address to next page

Changes in v25:
- Do proper filtering on hole as well (hole got missed earlier)

Changes in v24:
- Place WP markers in case of hole as well

Changes in v23:
- Set vec_buf_index to 0 only when vec_buf_index is set
- Return -EFAULT instead of -EINVAL if vec is NULL
- Correctly return the walk ending address to the page granularity

Changes in v22:
- Interface change to return walk ending address to user:
- Replace [start start + len) with [start, end)
- Return the ending address of the address walk in start

Changes in v21:
- Abort walk instead of returning error if WP is to be performed on
partial hugetlb
- Changed the data types of some variables in pagemap_scan_private to
long

Changes in v20:
- Correct PAGE_IS_FILE and add PAGE_IS_PFNZERO

Changes in v19:
- Interface changes such as renaming, return mask and WP can be used
with any flags specified in masks
- Internal code changes

Changes in v18:
- Rebased on top of next-20230613
- ptep_get() updates
- remove pmd_trans_unstable() and add ACTION_AGAIN
- Review updates (Micheal)

Changes in v17:
- Rebased on next-20230606
- Made make_uffd_wp_*_pte() better and minor changes

Changes in v16:
- Fixed a corner case where kernel writes beyond user buffer by one
element
- Bring back exclusive PM_SCAN_OP_WP
- Cosmetic changes

Changes in v15:
- Build fix:
- Use generic tlb flush function in pagemap_scan_pmd_entry() instead of
using x86 specific flush function in do_pagemap_scan()
- Remove #ifdef from pagemap_scan_hugetlb_entry()
- Use mm instead of undefined vma->vm_mm

Changes in v14:
- Fix build error caused by #ifdef added at last minute in some configs

Changes in v13:
- Review updates
- mmap_read_lock_killable() instead of mmap_read_lock()
- Replace uffd_wp_range() with helpers which increases performance
drastically for OP_WP operations by reducing the number of tlb
flushing etc
- Add MMU_NOTIFY_PROTECTION_VMA notification for the memory range

Changes in v12:
- Add hugetlb support to cover all memory types
- Merge "userfaultfd: Define dummy uffd_wp_range()" with this patch
- Review updates to the code

Changes in v11:
- Find written pages in a better way
- Fix a corner case (thanks Paul)
- Improve the code/comments
- remove ENGAGE_WP + ! GET operation
- shorten the commit message in favour of moving documentation to
pagemap.rst

Changes in v10:
- move changes in tools/include/uapi/linux/fs.h to separate patch
- update commit message

Change in v8:
- Correct is_pte_uffd_wp()
- Improve readability and error checks
- Remove some un-needed code

Changes in v7:
- Rebase on top of latest next
- Fix some corner cases
- Base soft-dirty on the uffd wp async
- Update the terminologies
- Optimize the memory usage inside the ioctl
---
fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 649 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/hugetlb.h | 1 +
include/uapi/linux/fs.h | 56 ++++
mm/hugetlb.c | 2 +-
4 files changed, 707 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
index c1e6531cb02a..1593d26605d3 100644
--- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
+++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@
#include <linux/shmem_fs.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <linux/pkeys.h>
+#include <linux/minmax.h>
+#include <linux/overflow.h>

#include <asm/elf.h>
#include <asm/tlb.h>
@@ -1749,11 +1751,658 @@ static int pagemap_release(struct inode *inode,
struct file *file)
return 0;
}

+#define PM_SCAN_CATEGORIES (PAGE_IS_WPASYNC | PAGE_IS_WRITTEN | \
+ PAGE_IS_FILE | PAGE_IS_PRESENT | \
+ PAGE_IS_SWAPPED | PAGE_IS_PFNZERO)
+#define PM_SCAN_FLAGS (PM_SCAN_WP_MATCHING | PM_SCAN_CHECK_WPASYNC)
+
+struct pagemap_scan_private {
+ struct pm_scan_arg arg;
+ unsigned long cur_vma_category;
+ struct page_region *vec_buf, cur_buf;
+ unsigned long vec_buf_len, vec_buf_index, found_pages, end_addr;
+ struct page_region __user* vec_out;
+};
+
+static unsigned long pagemap_page_category(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ unsigned long addr, pte_t pte)
+{
+ unsigned long categories = 0;
+
+ if (pte_present(pte)) {
+ struct page *page = vm_normal_page(vma, addr, pte);
+
+ categories |= PAGE_IS_PRESENT;
+ if (!pte_uffd_wp(pte))
+ categories |= PAGE_IS_WRITTEN;
+ if (page && !PageAnon(page))
+ categories |= PAGE_IS_FILE;
+ if (is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pte)))
+ categories |= PAGE_IS_PFNZERO;
+ } else if (is_swap_pte(pte)) {
+ swp_entry_t swp = pte_to_swp_entry(pte);
+
+ categories |= PAGE_IS_SWAPPED;
+ if (!pte_swp_uffd_wp_any(pte))
+ categories |= PAGE_IS_WRITTEN;
+ if (is_pfn_swap_entry(swp) && !PageAnon(pfn_swap_entry_to_page(swp)))
+ categories |= PAGE_IS_FILE;
+ }
+
+ return categories;
+}
+
+static void make_uffd_wp_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ unsigned long addr, pte_t *pte)
+{
+ pte_t ptent = ptep_get(pte);
+
+ if (pte_present(ptent)) {
+ pte_t old_pte;
+
+ old_pte = ptep_modify_prot_start(vma, addr, pte);
+ ptent = pte_mkuffd_wp(ptent);
+ ptep_modify_prot_commit(vma, addr, pte, old_pte, ptent);
+ } else if (is_swap_pte(ptent)) {
+ ptent = pte_swp_mkuffd_wp(ptent);
+ set_pte_at(vma->vm_mm, addr, pte, ptent);
+ } else {
+ set_pte_at(vma->vm_mm, addr, pte,
+ make_pte_marker(PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP));
+ }
+}
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+static unsigned long pagemap_thp_category(pmd_t pmd)
+{
+ unsigned long categories = 0;
+
+ if (pmd_present(pmd)) {
+ categories |= PAGE_IS_PRESENT;
+ if (!pmd_uffd_wp(pmd))
+ categories |= PAGE_IS_WRITTEN;
+ if (is_zero_pfn(pmd_pfn(pmd)))
+ categories |= PAGE_IS_PFNZERO;
+ } else if (is_swap_pmd(pmd)) {
+ categories |= PAGE_IS_SWAPPED;
+ if (!pmd_swp_uffd_wp(pmd))
+ categories |= PAGE_IS_WRITTEN;
+ }
+
+ return categories;
+}
+
+static void make_uffd_wp_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ unsigned long addr, pmd_t *pmdp)
+{
+ pmd_t old, pmd = *pmdp;
+
+ if (pmd_present(pmd)) {
+ old = pmdp_invalidate_ad(vma, addr, pmdp);
+ pmd = pmd_mkuffd_wp(old);
+ set_pmd_at(vma->vm_mm, addr, pmdp, pmd);
+ } else if (is_migration_entry(pmd_to_swp_entry(pmd))) {
+ pmd = pmd_swp_mkuffd_wp(pmd);
+ set_pmd_at(vma->vm_mm, addr, pmdp, pmd);
+ }
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE */
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
+static unsigned long pagemap_hugetlb_category(pte_t pte)
+{
+ unsigned long categories = 0;
+
+ if (pte_present(pte)) {
+ categories |= PAGE_IS_PRESENT;
+ if (!huge_pte_uffd_wp(pte))
+ categories |= PAGE_IS_WRITTEN;
+ if (!PageAnon(pte_page(pte)))
+ categories |= PAGE_IS_FILE;
+ if (is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pte)))
+ categories |= PAGE_IS_PFNZERO;
+ } else if (is_swap_pte(pte)) {
+ categories |= PAGE_IS_SWAPPED;
+ if (!pte_swp_uffd_wp_any(pte))
+ categories |= PAGE_IS_WRITTEN;
+ }
+
+ return categories;
+}
+
+static void make_uffd_wp_huge_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep,
+ pte_t ptent)
+{
+ if (is_hugetlb_entry_hwpoisoned(ptent) || is_pte_marker(ptent))
+ return;
+
+ if (is_hugetlb_entry_migration(ptent))
+ set_huge_pte_at(vma->vm_mm, addr, ptep,
+ pte_swp_mkuffd_wp(ptent));
+ else if (!huge_pte_none(ptent))
+ huge_ptep_modify_prot_commit(vma, addr, ptep, ptent,
+ huge_pte_mkuffd_wp(ptent));
+ else
+ set_huge_pte_at(vma->vm_mm, addr, ptep,
+ make_pte_marker(PTE_MARKER_UFFD_WP));
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE */
+
+static bool pagemap_scan_is_interesting_page(unsigned long categories,
+ const struct pagemap_scan_private *p)
+{
+ categories ^= p->arg.category_inverted;
+ if ((categories & p->arg.category_mask) != p->arg.category_mask)
+ return false;
+ if (p->arg.category_anyof_mask && !(categories & p->arg.category_anyof_mask))
+ return false;
+
+ return true;
+}
+
+static bool pagemap_scan_is_interesting_vma(unsigned long categories,
+ const struct pagemap_scan_private *p)
+{
+ unsigned long required = p->arg.category_mask & PAGE_IS_WPASYNC;
+
+ categories ^= p->arg.category_inverted;
+ if ((categories & required) != required)
+ return false;
+
+ return true;
+}
+
+static int pagemap_scan_test_walk(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
+ struct mm_walk *walk)
+{
+ struct pagemap_scan_private *p = walk->private;
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma = walk->vma;
+ unsigned long vma_category = 0;
+
+ if (userfaultfd_wp_async(vma) && userfaultfd_wp_use_markers(vma))
+ vma_category |= PAGE_IS_WPASYNC;
+ else if (p->arg.flags & PM_SCAN_CHECK_WPASYNC)
+ return -EPERM;
+
+ if (vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP)
+ return 1;
+
+ if (!pagemap_scan_is_interesting_vma(vma_category, p))
+ return 1;
+
+ p->cur_vma_category = vma_category;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static bool pagemap_scan_push_range(unsigned long categories,
+ struct pagemap_scan_private *p,
+ unsigned long addr, unsigned long end)
+{
+ struct page_region *cur_buf = &p->cur_buf;
+
+ /*
+ * When there is no output buffer provided at all, the sentinel values
+ * won't match here. There is no other way for `cur_buf->end` to be
+ * non-zero other than it being non-empty.
+ */
+ if (addr == cur_buf->end && categories == cur_buf->categories) {
+ cur_buf->end = end;
+ return true;
+ }
+
+ if (cur_buf->end) {
+ if (p->vec_buf_index >= p->vec_buf_len)
+ return false;
+
+ memcpy(&p->vec_buf[p->vec_buf_index], cur_buf,
+ sizeof(*p->vec_buf));
+ ++p->vec_buf_index;
+ }
+
+ cur_buf->start = addr;
+ cur_buf->end = end;
+ cur_buf->categories = categories;
+
+ return true;
+}
+
+static void pagemap_scan_backout_range(struct pagemap_scan_private *p,
+ unsigned long addr, unsigned long end)
+{
+ struct page_region *cur_buf = &p->cur_buf;
+
+ if (cur_buf->start != addr)
+ cur_buf->end = addr;
+ else
+ cur_buf->start = cur_buf->end = 0;
+
+ p->end_addr = 0;
+ p->found_pages -= (end - addr) / PAGE_SIZE;
+}
+
+static int pagemap_scan_output(unsigned long categories,
+ struct pagemap_scan_private *p,
+ unsigned long addr, unsigned long *end)
+{
+ unsigned long n_pages, total_pages;
+ int ret = 0;
+
+ if (!pagemap_scan_is_interesting_page(categories, p)) {
+ *end = addr;
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ if (!p->vec_buf)
+ return 0;
+
+ categories &= p->arg.return_mask;
+
+ n_pages = (*end - addr) / PAGE_SIZE;
+ if (check_add_overflow(p->found_pages, n_pages, &total_pages) ||
+ total_pages > p->arg.max_pages) {
+ size_t n_too_much = total_pages - p->arg.max_pages;
+ *end -= n_too_much * PAGE_SIZE;
+ n_pages -= n_too_much;
+ ret = -ENOSPC;
+ }
+
+ if (!pagemap_scan_push_range(categories, p, addr, *end)) {
+ *end = addr;
+ n_pages = 0;
+ ret = -ENOSPC;
+ }
+
+ p->found_pages += n_pages;
+ if (ret)
+ p->end_addr = *end;
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
+static int pagemap_scan_thp_entry(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long start,
+ unsigned long end, struct mm_walk *walk)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+ struct pagemap_scan_private *p = walk->private;
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma = walk->vma;
+ unsigned long categories;
+ spinlock_t *ptl;
+ int ret = 0;
+
+ ptl = pmd_trans_huge_lock(pmd, vma);
+ if (!ptl)
+ return -ENOENT;
+
+ categories = p->cur_vma_category | pagemap_thp_category(*pmd);
+
+ ret = pagemap_scan_output(categories, p, start, &end);
+ if (start == end)
+ goto out_unlock;
+
+ if (~p->arg.flags & PM_SCAN_WP_MATCHING)
+ goto out_unlock;
+ if (~categories & PAGE_IS_WRITTEN)
+ goto out_unlock;
+
+ /*
+ * Break huge page into small pages if the WP operation
+ * need to be performed is on a portion of the huge page.
+ */
+ if (end != start + HPAGE_SIZE) {
+ spin_unlock(ptl);
+ split_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, start);
+ pagemap_scan_backout_range(p, start, end);
+ return -ENOENT;
+ }
+
+ make_uffd_wp_pmd(vma, start, pmd);
+ flush_tlb_range(vma, start, end);
+out_unlock:
+ spin_unlock(ptl);
+ return ret;
+#else /* !CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE */
+ return -ENOENT;
+#endif
+}
+
+static int pagemap_scan_pmd_entry(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long start,
+ unsigned long end, struct mm_walk *walk)
+{
+ struct pagemap_scan_private *p = walk->private;
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma = walk->vma;
+ pte_t *pte, *start_pte;
+ unsigned long addr;
+ bool flush = false;
+ spinlock_t *ptl;
+ int ret;
+
+ arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode();
+
+ ret = pagemap_scan_thp_entry(pmd, start, end, walk);
+ if (ret != -ENOENT) {
+ arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();
+ return ret;
+ }
+
+ start_pte = pte = pte_offset_map_lock(vma->vm_mm, pmd, start, &ptl);
+ if (!pte) {
+ arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();
+ walk->action = ACTION_AGAIN;
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ for (addr = start; addr != end; pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
+ unsigned long categories = p->cur_vma_category |
+ pagemap_page_category(vma, addr, ptep_get(pte));
+ unsigned long next = addr + PAGE_SIZE;
+
+ ret = pagemap_scan_output(categories, p, addr, &next);
+ if (next == addr) {
+ if (!ret)
+ continue;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ if (~p->arg.flags & PM_SCAN_WP_MATCHING)
+ continue;
+ if (~categories & PAGE_IS_WRITTEN)
+ continue;
+
+ make_uffd_wp_pte(vma, addr, pte);
+ if (!flush) {
+ start = addr;
+ flush = true;
+ }
+ }
+
+ if (flush)
+ flush_tlb_range(vma, start, addr);
+
+ pte_unmap_unlock(start_pte, ptl);
+ arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();
+
+ cond_resched();
+ return ret;
+}
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
+static int pagemap_scan_hugetlb_entry(pte_t *ptep, unsigned long hmask,
+ unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
+ struct mm_walk *walk)
+{
+ struct pagemap_scan_private *p = walk->private;
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma = walk->vma;
+ unsigned long categories;
+ spinlock_t *ptl;
+ int ret = 0;
+ pte_t pte;
+
+ if (~p->arg.flags & PM_SCAN_WP_MATCHING) {
+ /* Go the short route when not write-protecting pages. */
+
+ pte = huge_ptep_get(ptep);
+ categories = p->cur_vma_category | pagemap_hugetlb_category(pte);
+
+ return pagemap_scan_output(categories, p, start, &end);
+ }
+
+ if (end != start + HPAGE_SIZE) {
+ /* Partial HugeTLB page WP isn't possible. */
+ p->end_addr = start;
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
+ i_mmap_lock_write(vma->vm_file->f_mapping);
+ ptl = huge_pte_lock(hstate_vma(vma), vma->vm_mm, ptep);
+
+ pte = huge_ptep_get(ptep);
+ categories = p->cur_vma_category | pagemap_hugetlb_category(pte);
+
+ ret = pagemap_scan_output(categories, p, start, &end);
+ if (start == end)
+ goto out_unlock;
+
+ if (categories & PAGE_IS_WRITTEN) {
+ make_uffd_wp_huge_pte(vma, start, ptep, pte);
+ flush_hugetlb_tlb_range(vma, start, end);
+ }
+
+out_unlock:
+ spin_unlock(ptl);
+ i_mmap_unlock_write(vma->vm_file->f_mapping);
+
+ return ret;
+}
+#else
+#define pagemap_scan_hugetlb_entry NULL
+#endif
+
+static int pagemap_scan_pte_hole(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
+ int depth, struct mm_walk *walk)
+{
+ struct pagemap_scan_private *p = walk->private;
+ struct vm_area_struct *vma = walk->vma;
+ int ret, err;
+
+ if (!vma)
+ return 0;
+
+ ret = pagemap_scan_output(p->cur_vma_category, p, addr, &end);
+ if (addr == end)
+ return ret;
+
+ if (~p->arg.flags & PM_SCAN_WP_MATCHING)
+ return ret;
+
+ err = uffd_wp_range(vma, addr, end - addr, true);
+ if (err < 0)
+ ret = err;
+
+ return ret;
+}
+
+static const struct mm_walk_ops pagemap_scan_ops = {
+ .test_walk = pagemap_scan_test_walk,
+ .pmd_entry = pagemap_scan_pmd_entry,
+ .pte_hole = pagemap_scan_pte_hole,
+ .hugetlb_entry = pagemap_scan_hugetlb_entry,
+};
+
+static int pagemap_scan_get_args(struct pm_scan_arg *arg,
+ unsigned long uarg)
+{
+ if (copy_from_user(arg, (void __user *)uarg, sizeof(*arg)))
+ return -EFAULT;
+
+ if (arg->size != sizeof(struct pm_scan_arg))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ /* Validate requested features */
+ if (arg->flags & ~PM_SCAN_FLAGS)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ if ((arg->category_inverted | arg->category_mask |
+ arg->category_anyof_mask | arg->return_mask) & ~PM_SCAN_CATEGORIES)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ arg->start = untagged_addr((unsigned long)arg->start);
+ arg->end = untagged_addr((unsigned long)arg->end);
+ arg->vec = untagged_addr((unsigned long)arg->vec);
+
+ /* Validate memory pointers */
+ if (!IS_ALIGNED(arg->start, PAGE_SIZE))
+ return -EINVAL;
+ if (!access_ok((void __user *)arg->start, arg->end - arg->start))
+ return -EFAULT;
+ if (!arg->vec && arg->vec_len)
+ return -EFAULT;
+ if (arg->vec && !access_ok((void __user *)arg->vec,
+ arg->vec_len * sizeof(struct page_region)))
+ return -EFAULT;
+
+ /* Fixup default values */
+ arg->end = ALIGN(arg->end, PAGE_SIZE);
+ if (!arg->max_pages)
+ arg->max_pages = ULONG_MAX;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int pagemap_scan_writeback_args(struct pm_scan_arg *arg,
+ unsigned long uargl)
+{
+ struct pm_scan_arg __user *uarg = (void __user *)uargl;
+
+ if (copy_to_user(&uarg->start, &arg->start, sizeof(arg->start)))
+ return -EFAULT;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int pagemap_scan_init_bounce_buffer(struct pagemap_scan_private *p)
+{
+ if (!p->arg.vec_len) {
+ /*
+ * An arbitrary non-page-aligned sentinel value for
+ * pagemap_scan_push_range().
+ */
+ p->cur_buf.start = p->cur_buf.end = ULLONG_MAX;
+ if (p->arg.vec)
+ p->vec_buf = ZERO_SIZE_PTR;
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Allocate a smaller buffer to get output from inside the page
+ * walk functions and walk the range in PAGEMAP_WALK_SIZE chunks.
+ * The last range is always stored in p.cur_buf to allow coalescing
+ * consecutive ranges that have the same categories returned across
+ * walk_page_range() calls.
+ */
+ p->vec_buf_len = min_t(size_t, PAGEMAP_WALK_SIZE >> PAGE_SHIFT,
+ p->arg.vec_len - 1);
+ p->vec_buf = kmalloc_array(p->vec_buf_len, sizeof(*p->vec_buf),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!p->vec_buf)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ p->vec_out = (struct page_region __user *)p->arg.vec;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int pagemap_scan_flush_buffer(struct pagemap_scan_private *p)
+{
+ const struct page_region *buf = p->vec_buf;
+ int n = (int)p->vec_buf_index;
+
+ if (!n)
+ return 0;
+
+ if (copy_to_user(p->vec_out, buf, n * sizeof(*buf)))
+ return -EFAULT;
+
+ p->arg.vec_len -= n;
+ p->vec_out += n;
+
+ p->vec_buf_index = 0;
+ p->vec_buf_len = min_t(size_t, p->vec_buf_len, p->arg.vec_len - 1);
+
+ return n;
+}
+
+static long do_pagemap_scan(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long uarg)
+{
+ unsigned long walk_start, walk_end;
+ struct mmu_notifier_range range;
+ struct pagemap_scan_private p;
+ size_t n_ranges_out = 0;
+ int ret;
+
+ memset(&p, 0, sizeof(p));
+ ret = pagemap_scan_get_args(&p.arg, uarg);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
+ ret = pagemap_scan_init_bounce_buffer(&p);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
+ /* Protection change for the range is going to happen. */
+ if (p.arg.flags & PM_SCAN_WP_MATCHING) {
+ mmu_notifier_range_init(&range, MMU_NOTIFY_PROTECTION_VMA, 0,
+ mm, p.arg.start, p.arg.end);
+ mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start(&range);
+ }
+
+ walk_start = walk_end = p.arg.start;
+ for (; walk_end != p.arg.end; walk_start = walk_end) {
+ int n_out;
+ walk_end = min_t(unsigned long,
+ (walk_start + PAGEMAP_WALK_SIZE) & PAGEMAP_WALK_MASK,
+ p.arg.end);
+
+ ret = mmap_read_lock_killable(mm);
+ if (ret)
+ break;
+ ret = walk_page_range(mm, walk_start, walk_end,
+ &pagemap_scan_ops, &p);
+ mmap_read_unlock(mm);
+
+ n_out = pagemap_scan_flush_buffer(&p);
+ if (n_out < 0)
+ ret = n_out;
+ else
+ n_ranges_out += n_out;
+
+ if (ret)
+ break;
+ }
+
+ if (p.cur_buf.start != p.cur_buf.end) {
+ if (copy_to_user(p.vec_out, &p.cur_buf, sizeof(p.cur_buf)))
+ ret = -EFAULT;
+ else
+ ++n_ranges_out;
+ }
+
+ /* ENOSPC signifies early stop (buffer full) from the walk. */
+ if (!ret || ret == -ENOSPC)
+ ret = n_ranges_out;
+
+ p.arg.start = p.end_addr ? p.end_addr : walk_start;
+ if (pagemap_scan_writeback_args(&p.arg, uarg))
+ ret = -EFAULT;
+
+ if (p.arg.flags & PM_SCAN_WP_MATCHING)
+ mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(&range);
+
+ kfree(p.vec_buf);
+ return ret;
+}
+
+static long do_pagemap_cmd(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
+ unsigned long arg)
+{
+ struct mm_struct *mm = file->private_data;
+
+ switch (cmd) {
+ case PAGEMAP_SCAN:
+ return do_pagemap_scan(mm, arg);
+
+ default:
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+}
+
const struct file_operations proc_pagemap_operations = {
.llseek = mem_lseek, /* borrow this */
.read = pagemap_read,
.open = pagemap_open,
.release = pagemap_release,
+ .unlocked_ioctl = do_pagemap_cmd,
+ .compat_ioctl = do_pagemap_cmd,
};
#endif /* CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR */

diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
index 0a393bc02f25..8f8ff07453f2 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -259,6 +259,7 @@ long hugetlb_change_protection(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long cp_flags);

bool is_hugetlb_entry_migration(pte_t pte);
+bool is_hugetlb_entry_hwpoisoned(pte_t pte);
void hugetlb_unshare_all_pmds(struct vm_area_struct *vma);

#else /* !CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE */
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/fs.h b/include/uapi/linux/fs.h
index b7b56871029c..db39442befcb 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/fs.h
@@ -305,4 +305,60 @@ typedef int __bitwise __kernel_rwf_t;
#define RWF_SUPPORTED (RWF_HIPRI | RWF_DSYNC | RWF_SYNC | RWF_NOWAIT |\
RWF_APPEND)

+/* Pagemap ioctl */
+#define PAGEMAP_SCAN _IOWR('f', 16, struct pm_scan_arg)
+
+/* Bits are set in flags of the page_region and masks in pm_scan_args */
+#define PAGE_IS_WPASYNC (1 << 0)
+#define PAGE_IS_WRITTEN (1 << 1)
+#define PAGE_IS_FILE (1 << 2)
+#define PAGE_IS_PRESENT (1 << 3)
+#define PAGE_IS_SWAPPED (1 << 4)
+#define PAGE_IS_PFNZERO (1 << 5)
+
+/*
+ * struct page_region - Page region with flags
+ * @start: Start of the region
+ * @end: End of the region (exclusive)
+ * @categories: PAGE_IS_* category bitmask for the region
+ */
+struct page_region {
+ __u64 start;
+ __u64 end;
+ __u64 categories;
+};
+
+/* Flags for PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl */
+#define PM_SCAN_WP_MATCHING (1 << 0) /* Write protect the pages matched. */
+#define PM_SCAN_CHECK_WPASYNC (1 << 1) /* Abort the scan when a
non-WP-enabled page is found. */
+
+/*
+ * struct pm_scan_arg - Pagemap ioctl argument
+ * @size: Size of the structure
+ * @flags: Flags for the IOCTL
+ * @start: Starting address of the region
+ * (Ending address of the walk is also returned in it)
+ * @end: Ending address of the region
+ * @vec: Address of page_region struct array for output
+ * @vec_len: Length of the page_region struct array
+ * @max_pages: Optional limit for number of returned pages (0 = disabled)
+ * @category_inverted: PAGE_IS_* categories which values match if 0
instead of 1
+ * @category_mask: Skip pages for which any category doesn't match
+ * @category_anyof_mask: Skip pages for which no category matches
+ * @return_mask: PAGE_IS_* categories that are to be reported in
`page_region`s returned
+ */
+struct pm_scan_arg {
+ __u64 size;
+ __u64 flags;
+ __u64 start;
+ __u64 end;
+ __u64 vec;
+ __u64 vec_len;
+ __u64 max_pages;
+ __u64 category_inverted;
+ __u64 category_mask;
+ __u64 category_anyof_mask;
+ __u64 return_mask;
+};
+
#endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_FS_H */
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index a073e6ed8900..3b07db0a4f2d 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -5008,7 +5008,7 @@ bool is_hugetlb_entry_migration(pte_t pte)
return false;
}

-static bool is_hugetlb_entry_hwpoisoned(pte_t pte)
+bool is_hugetlb_entry_hwpoisoned(pte_t pte)
{
swp_entry_t swp;

--
2.39.2




2023-07-25 18:33:29

by Michał Mirosław

[permalink] [raw]
Subject: Re: [v3] fs/proc/task_mmu: Implement IOCTL for efficient page table scanning

On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 at 11:11, Muhammad Usama Anjum
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> ----
> Michal please post your thoughts before I post this as v26.
> ----
[...]

Looks ok - minor things below.

1. I'd change the _WPASYNC things to something better, if this can
also work with "normal" UFFD WP.

2. For the address tagging part I'd prefer someone who knows how this
is used take a look. We're ignoring the tag (but clear it on return in
->start) - so it doesn't matter for the ioctl() itself.

3. BTW, One of the uses is the GetWriteWatch and I wonder how it
behaves on HugeTLB (MEM_LARGE_PAGES allocation)? Shouldn't it return a
list of huge pages and write *lpdwGranularity = HPAGE_SIZE?

4. The docs and commit messages need some rewording due to the changes
in the API.

Other than that:

Reviewed-by: Michał Mirosław <[email protected]>

2023-07-26 09:08:03

by Muhammad Usama Anjum

[permalink] [raw]
Subject: Re: [v3] fs/proc/task_mmu: Implement IOCTL for efficient page table scanning

On 7/25/23 11:05 PM, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 at 11:11, Muhammad Usama Anjum
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> ----
>> Michal please post your thoughts before I post this as v26.
>> ----
> [...]
>
> Looks ok - minor things below.
>
> 1. I'd change the _WPASYNC things to something better, if this can
> also work with "normal" UFFD WP.
Yeah, but we don't have any use case where UFFD WP is required. It can be
easily added later when user case arrives. Also UFFD WP sends messages to
userspace. User can easily do the bookkeeping in userspace as performance
isn't a concern there.

>
> 2. For the address tagging part I'd prefer someone who knows how this
> is used take a look. We're ignoring the tag (but clear it on return in
> ->start) - so it doesn't matter for the ioctl() itself.
I've added Kirill if he can give his thoughts about tagged memory.

Right now we are removing the tags from all 3 pointers (start, end, vec)
before using the pointers on kernel side. But we are overwriting and
writing the walk ending address in start which user can read/use.

I think we shouldn't over-write the start (and its tag) and instead return
the ending walk address in new variable, walk_end.

>
> 3. BTW, One of the uses is the GetWriteWatch and I wonder how it
> behaves on HugeTLB (MEM_LARGE_PAGES allocation)? Shouldn't it return a
> list of huge pages and write *lpdwGranularity = HPAGE_SIZE?
Wine/Proton doesn't used hugetlb by default. Hugetlb isn't enabled by
default on Debian as well. For GetWriteWatch() we don't care about the
hugetlb at all. We have added hugetlb's implementation to complete the
feature and leave out something.

Also GetWriteWatch() implementation wouldn't require THP support as well
because you start to get 2MB of memory dirty even when only 4kB of memory
shouldn't have been dirty.

>
> 4. The docs and commit messages need some rewording due to the changes
> in the API.
Yeah, I've updated the doc. I'll update the commit message as well.

>
> Other than that:
>
> Reviewed-by: Michał Mirosław <[email protected]>

--
BR,
Muhammad Usama Anjum

2023-07-26 21:53:29

by Michał Mirosław

[permalink] [raw]
Subject: Re: [v3] fs/proc/task_mmu: Implement IOCTL for efficient page table scanning

On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 at 10:34, Muhammad Usama Anjum
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 7/25/23 11:05 PM, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 at 11:11, Muhammad Usama Anjum
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> ----
> >> Michal please post your thoughts before I post this as v26.
> >> ----
> > [...]
> >
> > Looks ok - minor things below.
> >
> > 1. I'd change the _WPASYNC things to something better, if this can
> > also work with "normal" UFFD WP.
> Yeah, but we don't have any use case where UFFD WP is required. It can be
> easily added later when user case arrives. Also UFFD WP sends messages to
> userspace. User can easily do the bookkeeping in userspace as performance
> isn't a concern there.

We shouldn't name the flags based on the use case but based on what
they actually do. So if this checks UFFD registration for WP, then
maybe PAGE_IS_WPALLOWED or something better describing the trait it
matches?

> > 2. For the address tagging part I'd prefer someone who knows how this
> > is used take a look. We're ignoring the tag (but clear it on return in
> > ->start) - so it doesn't matter for the ioctl() itself.
> I've added Kirill if he can give his thoughts about tagged memory.
>
> Right now we are removing the tags from all 3 pointers (start, end, vec)
> before using the pointers on kernel side. But we are overwriting and
> writing the walk ending address in start which user can read/use.
>
> I think we shouldn't over-write the start (and its tag) and instead return
> the ending walk address in new variable, walk_end.

The overwrite of `start` is making the ioctl restart (continuation)
easier to handle. I prefer the current way, but it's not a strong
opinion.

> > 3. BTW, One of the uses is the GetWriteWatch and I wonder how it
> > behaves on HugeTLB (MEM_LARGE_PAGES allocation)? Shouldn't it return a
> > list of huge pages and write *lpdwGranularity = HPAGE_SIZE?
> Wine/Proton doesn't used hugetlb by default. Hugetlb isn't enabled by
> default on Debian as well. For GetWriteWatch() we don't care about the
> hugetlb at all. We have added hugetlb's implementation to complete the
> feature and leave out something.

How is GetWriteWatch() working when passed a VirtualAlloc(...,
MEM_LARGE_PAGES|MEM_WRITE_WATCH...)-allocated range? Does it still
report 4K pages?
This is only a problem when using max_pages: a hugetlb range might
need counting and reporting huge pages and not 4K parts.

Best Regards
Michał Mirosław

2023-07-27 00:03:53

by Paul Gofman

[permalink] [raw]
Subject: Re: [v3] fs/proc/task_mmu: Implement IOCTL for efficient page table scanning

Hello Michał,

    I was looking into that from the Wine point of view and did a bit
of testing, so will try to answer the question cited below.

    Without Windows large pages I guess the only way to make this work
correctly is to disable THP with madvise(MADV_NOHUGEPAGE) on the memory
ranges allocated with MEM_WRITE_WATCH, as the memory changes should not
only be reported but also tracked with 4k page granularity as Windows
applications expect.

    Currently we don't implement MEM_LARGE_PAGES flag support in Wine
(while of course might want to do that in the future). On Windows using
this flag requires special permissions and implies more than just using
huge pages under the hood but also, in particular, locking pages in
memory. I'd expect that support to be extended in Windows though in the
future in some way. WRT write watches, the range is watched with large
page granularity. GetWriteWatch lpdwGranularity output parameter returns
the value of "large page minimum" (returned by GetLargePageMinimum) and
the returned addresses correspond to those large pages. I suppose to
implement that on top of Linux huge pages we'd need a way to control
huge pages allocation at the first place, i. e., a way to enforce the
specified size for the huge pages for the memory ranged being mapped.
Without that I am afraid the only way to correctly implement that is to
still disable THP on the range and only adjust our API output so that
matches expected.

    Not related to the question, but without any relation to Wine and
Windows API current way of dealing with THP in the API design looks a
bit not straightforward to me. In a sense that transparent huge pages
will appear not so transparent when it comes to dirty pages tracking. If
I understand correctly, the application which allocated a reasonably big
memory area and didn't use madvise(MADV_NOHUGEPAGE) might end up with a
whole range being a single page and getting dirtified as a whole, which
may likely void app's optimization based on changed memory tracking. Not
that I know an ideal way out of this, maybe it is a matter of having THP
disabled by default on watched ranges or clearly warning about this
caveat in documentation?

Regards,
    Paul.


On 7/26/23 15:10, Michał Mirosław wrote:
>
>>> 3. BTW, One of the uses is the GetWriteWatch and I wonder how it
>>> behaves on HugeTLB (MEM_LARGE_PAGES allocation)? Shouldn't it return a
>>> list of huge pages and write *lpdwGranularity = HPAGE_SIZE?
>> Wine/Proton doesn't used hugetlb by default. Hugetlb isn't enabled by
>> default on Debian as well. For GetWriteWatch() we don't care about the
>> hugetlb at all. We have added hugetlb's implementation to complete the
>> feature and leave out something.
> How is GetWriteWatch() working when passed a VirtualAlloc(...,
> MEM_LARGE_PAGES|MEM_WRITE_WATCH...)-allocated range? Does it still
> report 4K pages?
> This is only a problem when using max_pages: a hugetlb range might
> need counting and reporting huge pages and not 4K parts.
>
> Best Regards
> Michał Mirosław



2023-07-27 08:54:44

by Muhammad Usama Anjum

[permalink] [raw]
Subject: Re: [v3] fs/proc/task_mmu: Implement IOCTL for efficient page table scanning

On 7/27/23 2:10 AM, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 at 10:34, Muhammad Usama Anjum
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 7/25/23 11:05 PM, Michał Mirosław wrote:
>>> On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 at 11:11, Muhammad Usama Anjum
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> ----
>>>> Michal please post your thoughts before I post this as v26.
>>>> ----
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Looks ok - minor things below.
>>>
>>> 1. I'd change the _WPASYNC things to something better, if this can
>>> also work with "normal" UFFD WP.
>> Yeah, but we don't have any use case where UFFD WP is required. It can be
>> easily added later when user case arrives. Also UFFD WP sends messages to
>> userspace. User can easily do the bookkeeping in userspace as performance
>> isn't a concern there.
>
> We shouldn't name the flags based on the use case but based on what
> they actually do. So if this checks UFFD registration for WP, then
> maybe PAGE_IS_WPALLOWED or something better describing the trait it
> matches?
PAGE_IS_WPALLOWED seems appropriate.

>
>>> 2. For the address tagging part I'd prefer someone who knows how this
>>> is used take a look. We're ignoring the tag (but clear it on return in
>>> ->start) - so it doesn't matter for the ioctl() itself.
>> I've added Kirill if he can give his thoughts about tagged memory.
>>
>> Right now we are removing the tags from all 3 pointers (start, end, vec)
>> before using the pointers on kernel side. But we are overwriting and
>> writing the walk ending address in start which user can read/use.
>>
>> I think we shouldn't over-write the start (and its tag) and instead return
>> the ending walk address in new variable, walk_end.
>
> The overwrite of `start` is making the ioctl restart (continuation)
> easier to handle. I prefer the current way, but it's not a strong
> opinion.
We shouldn't overwrite the start if we aren't gonna put the correct tag. So
I've resorted to adding another variable `walk_end` to return the walk
ending address.

>
>>> 3. BTW, One of the uses is the GetWriteWatch and I wonder how it
>>> behaves on HugeTLB (MEM_LARGE_PAGES allocation)? Shouldn't it return a
>>> list of huge pages and write *lpdwGranularity = HPAGE_SIZE?
>> Wine/Proton doesn't used hugetlb by default. Hugetlb isn't enabled by
>> default on Debian as well. For GetWriteWatch() we don't care about the
>> hugetlb at all. We have added hugetlb's implementation to complete the
>> feature and leave out something.
>
> How is GetWriteWatch() working when passed a VirtualAlloc(...,
> MEM_LARGE_PAGES|MEM_WRITE_WATCH...)-allocated range? Does it still
> report 4K pages?
> This is only a problem when using max_pages: a hugetlb range might
> need counting and reporting huge pages and not 4K parts.
>
> Best Regards
> Michał Mirosław

I'll send v26 in next hour.

--
BR,
Muhammad Usama Anjum

2023-07-27 12:01:33

by Michał Mirosław

[permalink] [raw]
Subject: Re: [v3] fs/proc/task_mmu: Implement IOCTL for efficient page table scanning

On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 at 10:03, Muhammad Usama Anjum
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 7/27/23 2:10 AM, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 at 10:34, Muhammad Usama Anjum
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> On 7/25/23 11:05 PM, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 at 11:11, Muhammad Usama Anjum
> >>> <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
> >>> 2. For the address tagging part I'd prefer someone who knows how this
> >>> is used take a look. We're ignoring the tag (but clear it on return in
> >>> ->start) - so it doesn't matter for the ioctl() itself.
> >> I've added Kirill if he can give his thoughts about tagged memory.
> >>
> >> Right now we are removing the tags from all 3 pointers (start, end, vec)
> >> before using the pointers on kernel side. But we are overwriting and
> >> writing the walk ending address in start which user can read/use.
> >>
> >> I think we shouldn't over-write the start (and its tag) and instead return
> >> the ending walk address in new variable, walk_end.
> >
> > The overwrite of `start` is making the ioctl restart (continuation)
> > easier to handle. I prefer the current way, but it's not a strong
> > opinion.
> We shouldn't overwrite the start if we aren't gonna put the correct tag. So
> I've resorted to adding another variable `walk_end` to return the walk
> ending address.

Yes. We have two options:

1. add new field and have the userspace check it and update start
itself to continue the scan,
or:
2. reconstruct the tag from either orignal `start` or `end` and have
the userspace re-set `start` if it wants to restart the scan instead
of continuing.

(the second one, using `end`'s tag, might be the easiest for
userspace, as it can check `start` == `end` when deciding to continue
or restart).

Best Regards
Michał Mirosław

2023-07-27 13:14:18

by Michał Mirosław

[permalink] [raw]
Subject: Re: [v3] fs/proc/task_mmu: Implement IOCTL for efficient page table scanning

On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 at 01:06, Paul Gofman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello Michał,
>
> I was looking into that from the Wine point of view and did a bit
> of testing, so will try to answer the question cited below.

Thanks for the extensive explanation!

> Without Windows large pages I guess the only way to make this work
> correctly is to disable THP with madvise(MADV_NOHUGEPAGE) on the memory
> ranges allocated with MEM_WRITE_WATCH, as the memory changes should not
> only be reported but also tracked with 4k page granularity as Windows
> applications expect.
>
> Currently we don't implement MEM_LARGE_PAGES flag support in Wine
> (while of course might want to do that in the future). On Windows using
> this flag requires special permissions and implies more than just using
> huge pages under the hood but also, in particular, locking pages in
> memory. I'd expect that support to be extended in Windows though in the
> future in some way. WRT write watches, the range is watched with large
> page granularity. GetWriteWatch lpdwGranularity output parameter returns
> the value of "large page minimum" (returned by GetLargePageMinimum) and
> the returned addresses correspond to those large pages. I suppose to
> implement that on top of Linux huge pages we'd need a way to control
> huge pages allocation at the first place, i. e., a way to enforce the
> specified size for the huge pages for the memory ranged being mapped.
> Without that I am afraid the only way to correctly implement that is to
> still disable THP on the range and only adjust our API output so that
> matches expected.
>
> Not related to the question, but without any relation to Wine and
> Windows API current way of dealing with THP in the API design looks a
> bit not straightforward to me. In a sense that transparent huge pages
> will appear not so transparent when it comes to dirty pages tracking. If
> I understand correctly, the application which allocated a reasonably big
> memory area and didn't use madvise(MADV_NOHUGEPAGE) might end up with a
> whole range being a single page and getting dirtified as a whole, which
> may likely void app's optimization based on changed memory tracking. Not
> that I know an ideal way out of this, maybe it is a matter of having THP
> disabled by default on watched ranges or clearly warning about this
> caveat in documentation?

So, this means that the max_pages limit should count HugeTLB pages as
1 not HPAGE_SIZE/PAGE_SIZE pages.
Also, to get this right, we might need another PAGE_IS_HUGETLB
category, so that userspace can differentiate the ranges if needed.

Is it possible (on Windows) to have MEM_LARGE_PAGES allocation near a
normal one and run GetWriteWatch() on both in one call? If so, how
does it behave / what is expected?

Best Regards
Michał Mirosław

2023-07-27 18:02:35

by Paul Gofman

[permalink] [raw]
Subject: Re: [v3] fs/proc/task_mmu: Implement IOCTL for efficient page table scanning

On Windows GetWriteWatch won't work if the range is not withing a single
memory view regardless of MEM_LARGE_PAGES (that is, single VirtualAlloc
result, somewhat analogous to VMA but not quite), such a call will
result in an error.

For the context, Windows never auto splits or joins memory views, and
basically nothing can be done across views boundary (merging placeholder
views is an exception, while unrelated). VirtualProtect (which stands
for mprotect) can be done for individual pages withing the view of
course, but it is purely per page and doesn't affect view protection
flags or result in any splitting of those. VirtualProtect across views
adjacent in memory will also fail.

On 7/27/23 05:18, Michał Mirosław wrote:
>
> Is it possible (on Windows) to have MEM_LARGE_PAGES allocation near a
> normal one and run GetWriteWatch() on both in one call? If so, how
> does it behave / what is expected?
>
> Best Regards
> Michał Mirosław