mm: introduce __page_add_new_anon_rmap()
When dealing with speculative page fault handler, we may race with VMA being split or merged. In this case the vma->vm_start and vm->vm_end fields may not match the address the page fault is occurring. This can only happens when the VMA is split but in that case, the anon_vma pointer of the new VMA will be the same as the original one, because in __split_vma the new->anon_vma is set to src->anon_vma when *new = *vma. So even if the VMA boundaries are not correct, the anon_vma pointer is still valid. If the VMA has been merged, then the VMA in which it has been merged must have the same anon_vma pointer otherwise the merge can't be done. So in all the case we know that the anon_vma is valid, since we have checked before starting the speculative page fault that the anon_vma pointer is valid for this VMA and since there is an anon_vma this means that at one time a page has been backed and that before the VMA is cleaned, the page table lock would have to be grab to clean the PTE, and the anon_vma field is checked once the PTE is locked. This patch introduce a new __page_add_new_anon_rmap() service which doesn't check for the VMA boundaries, and create a new inline one which do the check. When called from a page fault handler, if this is not a speculative one, there is a guarantee that vm_start and vm_end match the faulting address, so this check is useless. In the context of the speculative page fault handler, this check may be wrong but anon_vma is still valid as explained above. Change-Id: I72c47830181579f8c9618df879077d321653b5f1 Signed-off-by:Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Patch-mainline: linux-mm @ Tue, 17 Apr 2018 16:33:22 [vinmenon@codeaurora.org: trivial merge conflict fixes + checkpatch fixes] Signed-off-by:
Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
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