[PATCH] Hugetlb: Copy on Write support

Implement copy-on-write support for hugetlb mappings so MAP_PRIVATE can be
supported.  This helps us to safely use hugetlb pages in many more
applications.  The patch makes the following changes.  If needed, I also have
it broken out according to the following paragraphs.

1. Add a pair of functions to set/clear write access on huge ptes.  The
   writable check in make_huge_pte is moved out to the caller for use by COW
   later.

2. Hugetlb copy-on-write requires special case handling in the following
   situations:

   - copy_hugetlb_page_range() - Copied pages must be write protected so
     a COW fault will be triggered (if necessary) if those pages are written
     to.

   - find_or_alloc_huge_page() - Only MAP_SHARED pages are added to the
     page cache.  MAP_PRIVATE pages still need to be locked however.

3. Provide hugetlb_cow() and calls from hugetlb_fault() and
   hugetlb_no_page() which handles the COW fault by making the actual copy.

4. Remove the check in hugetlbfs_file_map() so that MAP_PRIVATE mmaps
   will be allowed.  Make MAP_HUGETLB exempt from the depricated VM_RESERVED
   mapping check.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This commit is contained in:
David Gibson
2006-01-06 00:10:44 -08:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 86e5216f8d
commit 1e8f889b10
2 changed files with 108 additions and 22 deletions

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@@ -100,9 +100,6 @@ static int hugetlbfs_file_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
loff_t len, vma_len;
int ret;
if ((vma->vm_flags & (VM_MAYSHARE | VM_WRITE)) == VM_WRITE)
return -EINVAL;
if (vma->vm_pgoff & (HPAGE_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE - 1))
return -EINVAL;