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<title>kernel.git/mm/mprotect.c, branch linux-4.6.y</title>
<subtitle>Hosts the 0x221E linux distro kernel.
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<updated>2016-03-22T22:36:02Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>mm/mprotect.c: don't imply PROT_EXEC on non-exec fs</title>
<updated>2016-03-22T22:36:02Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Piotr Kwapulinski</name>
</author>
<published>2016-03-22T21:27:51Z</published>
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The mprotect(PROT_READ) fails when called by the READ_IMPLIES_EXEC
binary on a memory mapped file located on non-exec fs.  The mprotect
does not check whether fs is _executable_ or not.  The PROT_EXEC flag is
set automatically even if a memory mapped file is located on non-exec
fs.  Fix it by checking whether a memory mapped file is located on a
non-exec fs.  If so the PROT_EXEC is not implied by the PROT_READ.  The
implementation uses the VM_MAYEXEC flag set properly in mmap.  Now it is
consistent with mmap.

I did the isolated tests (PT_GNU_STACK X/NX, multiple VMAs, X/NX fs).  I
also patched the official 3.19.0-47-generic Ubuntu 14.04 kernel and it
seems to work.

Signed-off-by: Piotr Kwapulinski &lt;kwapulinski.piotr@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;koct9i@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/core, x86/mm/pkeys: Add execute-only protection keys support</title>
<updated>2016-02-18T18:46:33Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Hansen</name>
</author>
<published>2016-02-12T21:02:40Z</published>
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Protection keys provide new page-based protection in hardware.
But, they have an interesting attribute: they only affect data
accesses and never affect instruction fetches.  That means that
if we set up some memory which is set as "access-disabled" via
protection keys, we can still execute from it.

This patch uses protection keys to set up mappings to do just that.
If a user calls:

	mmap(..., PROT_EXEC);
or
	mprotect(ptr, sz, PROT_EXEC);

(note PROT_EXEC-only without PROT_READ/WRITE), the kernel will
notice this, and set a special protection key on the memory.  It
also sets the appropriate bits in the Protection Keys User Rights
(PKRU) register so that the memory becomes unreadable and
unwritable.

I haven't found any userspace that does this today.  With this
facility in place, we expect userspace to move to use it
eventually.  Userspace _could_ start doing this today.  Any
PROT_EXEC calls get converted to PROT_READ inside the kernel, and
would transparently be upgraded to "true" PROT_EXEC with this
code.  IOW, userspace never has to do any PROT_EXEC runtime
detection.

This feature provides enhanced protection against leaking
executable memory contents.  This helps thwart attacks which are
attempting to find ROP gadgets on the fly.

But, the security provided by this approach is not comprehensive.
The PKRU register which controls access permissions is a normal
user register writable from unprivileged userspace.  An attacker
who can execute the 'wrpkru' instruction can easily disable the
protection provided by this feature.

The protection key that is used for execute-only support is
permanently dedicated at compile time.  This is fine for now
because there is currently no API to set a protection key other
than this one.

Despite there being a constant PKRU value across the entire
system, we do not set it unless this feature is in use in a
process.  That is to preserve the PKRU XSAVE 'init state',
which can lead to faster context switches.

PKRU *is* a user register and the kernel is modifying it.  That
means that code doing:

	pkru = rdpkru()
	pkru |= 0x100;
	mmap(..., PROT_EXEC);
	wrpkru(pkru);

could lose the bits in PKRU that enforce execute-only
permissions.  To avoid this, we suggest avoiding ever calling
mmap() or mprotect() when the PKRU value is expected to be
unstable.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Chen Gang &lt;gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave@sr71.net&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;koct9i@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Piotr Kwapulinski &lt;kwapulinski.piotr@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Smalley &lt;sds@tycho.nsa.gov&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Murzin &lt;vladimir.murzin@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: keescook@google.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160212210240.CB4BB5CA@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/core, arch, powerpc: Pass a protection key in to calc_vm_flag_bits()</title>
<updated>2016-02-18T18:46:30Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Hansen</name>
</author>
<published>2016-02-12T21:02:31Z</published>
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This plumbs a protection key through calc_vm_flag_bits().  We
could have done this in calc_vm_prot_bits(), but I did not feel
super strongly which way to go.  It was pretty arbitrary which
one to use.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Arve Hjønnevåg &lt;arve@android.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Chen Gang &lt;gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave@sr71.net&gt;
Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@linux.ie&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Geliang Tang &lt;geliangtang@163.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;koct9i@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leon@leon.nu&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Maxime Coquelin &lt;mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Riley Andrews &lt;riandrews@android.com&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160212210231.E6F1F0D6@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm, dax: check for pmd_none() after split_huge_pmd()</title>
<updated>2016-02-12T02:35:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
</author>
<published>2016-02-12T00:13:03Z</published>
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DAX implements split_huge_pmd() by clearing pmd.  This simple approach
reduces memory overhead, as we don't need to deposit page table on huge
page mapping to make split_huge_pmd() never-fail.  PTE table can be
allocated and populated later on page fault from backing store.

But one side effect is that have to check if pmd is pmd_none() after
split_huge_pmd().  In most places we do this already to deal with
parallel MADV_DONTNEED.

But I found two call sites which is not affected by MADV_DONTNEED (due
down_write(mmap_sem)), but need to have the check to work with DAX
properly.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm, dax: dax-pmd vs thp-pmd vs hugetlbfs-pmd</title>
<updated>2016-01-16T01:56:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
</author>
<published>2016-01-16T00:56:52Z</published>
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A dax-huge-page mapping while it uses some thp helpers is ultimately not
a transparent huge page.  The distinction is especially important in the
get_user_pages() path.  pmd_devmap() is used to distinguish dax-pmds
from pmd_huge() and pmd_trans_huge() which have slightly different
semantics.

Explicitly mark the pmd_trans_huge() helpers that dax needs by adding
pmd_devmap() checks.

[kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com: fix regression in handling mlocked pages in  __split_huge_pmd()]
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave@sr71.net&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>thp: rename split_huge_page_pmd() to split_huge_pmd()</title>
<updated>2016-01-16T01:56:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
</author>
<published>2016-01-16T00:52:42Z</published>
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We are going to decouple splitting THP PMD from splitting underlying
compound page.

This patch renames split_huge_page_pmd*() functions to split_huge_pmd*()
to reflect the fact that it doesn't imply page splitting, only PMD.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jerome Marchand &lt;jmarchan@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com&gt;
Cc: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: rework virtual memory accounting</title>
<updated>2016-01-15T00:00:49Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Konstantin Khlebnikov</name>
</author>
<published>2016-01-14T23:22:07Z</published>
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When inspecting a vague code inside prctl(PR_SET_MM_MEM) call (which
testing the RLIMIT_DATA value to figure out if we're allowed to assign
new @start_brk, @brk, @start_data, @end_data from mm_struct) it's been
commited that RLIMIT_DATA in a form it's implemented now doesn't do
anything useful because most of user-space libraries use mmap() syscall
for dynamic memory allocations.

Linus suggested to convert RLIMIT_DATA rlimit into something suitable
for anonymous memory accounting.  But in this patch we go further, and
the changes are bundled together as:

 * keep vma counting if CONFIG_PROC_FS=n, will be used for limits
 * replace mm-&gt;shared_vm with better defined mm-&gt;data_vm
 * account anonymous executable areas as executable
 * account file-backed growsdown/up areas as stack
 * drop struct file* argument from vm_stat_account
 * enforce RLIMIT_DATA for size of data areas

This way code looks cleaner: now code/stack/data classification depends
only on vm_flags state:

 VM_EXEC &amp; ~VM_WRITE            -&gt; code  (VmExe + VmLib in proc)
 VM_GROWSUP | VM_GROWSDOWN      -&gt; stack (VmStk)
 VM_WRITE &amp; ~VM_SHARED &amp; !stack -&gt; data  (VmData)

The rest (VmSize - VmData - VmStk - VmExe - VmLib) could be called
"shared", but that might be strange beast like readonly-private or VM_IO
area.

 - RLIMIT_AS            limits whole address space "VmSize"
 - RLIMIT_STACK         limits stack "VmStk" (but each vma individually)
 - RLIMIT_DATA          now limits "VmData"

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;koct9i@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@openvz.org&gt;
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas &lt;quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>userfaultfd: teach vma_merge to merge across vma-&gt;vm_userfaultfd_ctx</title>
<updated>2015-09-04T23:54:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrea Arcangeli</name>
</author>
<published>2015-09-04T22:46:24Z</published>
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vma-&gt;vm_userfaultfd_ctx is yet another vma parameter that vma_merge
must be aware about so that we can merge vmas back like they were
originally before arming the userfaultfd on some memory range.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov &lt;xemul@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: Sanidhya Kashyap &lt;sanidhya.gatech@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: zhang.zhanghailiang@huawei.com
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla &lt;andreslc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Feiner &lt;pfeiner@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" &lt;dgilbert@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: "Huangpeng (Peter)" &lt;peter.huangpeng@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: fix mprotect() behaviour on VM_LOCKED VMAs</title>
<updated>2015-06-25T00:49:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
</author>
<published>2015-06-24T23:56:10Z</published>
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On mlock(2) we trigger COW on private writable VMA to avoid faults in
future.

mm/gup.c:
 840 long populate_vma_page_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 841                 unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int *nonblocking)
 842 {
 ...
 855          * We want to touch writable mappings with a write fault in order
 856          * to break COW, except for shared mappings because these don't COW
 857          * and we would not want to dirty them for nothing.
 858          */
 859         if ((vma-&gt;vm_flags &amp; (VM_WRITE | VM_SHARED)) == VM_WRITE)
 860                 gup_flags |= FOLL_WRITE;

But we miss this case when we make VM_LOCKED VMA writeable via
mprotect(2). The test case:

	#define _GNU_SOURCE
	#include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
	#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
	#include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
	#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/resource.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/stat.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/time.h&gt;
	#include &lt;sys/types.h&gt;

	#define PAGE_SIZE 4096

	int main(int argc, char **argv)
	{
		struct rusage usage;
		long before;
		char *p;
		int fd;

		/* Create a file and populate first page of page cache */
		fd = open("/tmp", O_TMPFILE | O_RDWR, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR);
		write(fd, "1", 1);

		/* Create a *read-only* *private* mapping of the file */
		p = mmap(NULL, PAGE_SIZE, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);

		/*
		 * Since the mapping is read-only, mlock() will populate the mapping
		 * with PTEs pointing to page cache without triggering COW.
		 */
		mlock(p, PAGE_SIZE);

		/*
		 * Mapping became read-write, but it's still populated with PTEs
		 * pointing to page cache.
		 */
		mprotect(p, PAGE_SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE);

		getrusage(RUSAGE_SELF, &amp;usage);
		before = usage.ru_minflt;

		/* Trigger COW: fault in mlock()ed VMA. */
		*p = 1;

		getrusage(RUSAGE_SELF, &amp;usage);
		printf("faults: %ld\n", usage.ru_minflt - before);

		return 0;
	}

	$ ./test
	faults: 1

Let's fix it by triggering populating of VMA in mprotect_fixup() on this
condition. We don't care about population error as we don't in other
similar cases i.e. mremap.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment text]
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: numa: preserve PTE write permissions across a NUMA hinting fault</title>
<updated>2015-03-25T23:20:31Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mel Gorman</name>
</author>
<published>2015-03-25T22:55:40Z</published>
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<id>urn:sha1:b191f9b106ea1a24a711dbebb2925d3313da5852</id>
<content type='text'>
Protecting a PTE to trap a NUMA hinting fault clears the writable bit
and further faults are needed after trapping a NUMA hinting fault to set
the writable bit again.  This patch preserves the writable bit when
trapping NUMA hinting faults.  The impact is obvious from the number of
minor faults trapped during the basis balancing benchmark and the system
CPU usage;

  autonumabench
                                             4.0.0-rc4             4.0.0-rc4
                                              baseline              preserve
  Time System-NUMA01                  107.13 (  0.00%)      103.13 (  3.73%)
  Time System-NUMA01_THEADLOCAL       131.87 (  0.00%)       83.30 ( 36.83%)
  Time System-NUMA02                    8.95 (  0.00%)       10.72 (-19.78%)
  Time System-NUMA02_SMT                4.57 (  0.00%)        3.99 ( 12.69%)
  Time Elapsed-NUMA01                 515.78 (  0.00%)      517.26 ( -0.29%)
  Time Elapsed-NUMA01_THEADLOCAL      384.10 (  0.00%)      384.31 ( -0.05%)
  Time Elapsed-NUMA02                  48.86 (  0.00%)       48.78 (  0.16%)
  Time Elapsed-NUMA02_SMT              47.98 (  0.00%)       48.12 ( -0.29%)

               4.0.0-rc4   4.0.0-rc4
                baseline    preserve
  User          44383.95    43971.89
  System          252.61      201.24
  Elapsed         998.68     1000.94

  Minor Faults   2597249     1981230
  Major Faults       365         364

There is a similar drop in system CPU usage using Dave Chinner's xfsrepair
workload

                                      4.0.0-rc4             4.0.0-rc4
                                       baseline              preserve
  Amean    real-xfsrepair      454.14 (  0.00%)      442.36 (  2.60%)
  Amean    syst-xfsrepair      277.20 (  0.00%)      204.68 ( 26.16%)

The patch looks hacky but the alternatives looked worse.  The tidest was
to rewalk the page tables after a hinting fault but it was more complex
than this approach and the performance was worse.  It's not generally
safe to just mark the page writable during the fault if it's a write
fault as it may have been read-only for COW so that approach was
discarded.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Reported-by: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Aneesh Kumar &lt;aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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