Re: [PATCH 5/5] Swapless V2: Revise main migration logic

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>]

On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:27:48 -0700 (PDT)
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> 
> > Then,
> > 
> > if (is_migration_entry(entry)) {
> > 	change_to_read_migration_entry(entry);
> > 	copy_entry(entry);
> > }
> > 
> > is sane.
> 
> Hmmm... Looks like I need to do the patch. Is the following okay? This 
> will also only work on cow mappings.
> 
I think okay.

BTW, when copying mm, mm->mmap_sem is held. Is mm->mmap_sem is not held while 
page migraion now ? I'm sorry I can't catch up all changes.
or Is this needed for lazy migration (migration-on-fault) ?

-Kame

> 
> 
> Read/Write migration entries: Implement correct behavior in copy_one_pte
> 
> Migration entries with write permission must become SWP_MIGRATION_READ
> entries if a COW mapping is processed. The migration entries from which
> the copy is being made must also become SWP_MIGRATION_READ. This mimicks
> the copying of pte for an anonymous page.
> 
> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm2/mm/memory.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm2.orig/mm/memory.c	2006-04-17 16:23:50.000000000 -0700
> +++ linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm2/mm/memory.c	2006-04-17 17:25:50.000000000 -0700
> @@ -434,7 +434,9 @@ copy_one_pte(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, s
>  	/* pte contains position in swap or file, so copy. */
>  	if (unlikely(!pte_present(pte))) {
>  		if (!pte_file(pte)) {
> -			swap_duplicate(pte_to_swp_entry(pte));
> +			swp_entry_t entry = pte_to_swp_entry(pte);
> +
> +			swap_duplicate(entry);
>  			/* make sure dst_mm is on swapoff's mmlist. */
>  			if (unlikely(list_empty(&dst_mm->mmlist))) {
>  				spin_lock(&mmlist_lock);
> @@ -443,6 +445,19 @@ copy_one_pte(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, s
>  						 &src_mm->mmlist);
>  				spin_unlock(&mmlist_lock);
>  			}
> +			if (is_migration_entry(entry) &&
> +					is_cow_mapping(vm_flags)) {
> +				page = migration_entry_to_page(entry);
> +
> +				/*
> +				 * COW mappings require pages in both parent
> +				*  and child to be set to read.
> +				 */
> +				entry = make_migration_entry(page,
> +	`					SWP_MIGRATION_READ);
> +				pte = swp_entry_to_pte(entry);
> +				set_pte_at(src_mm, addr, src_pte, pte);
> +			}
>  		}
>  		goto out_set_pte;
>  	}
> 

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