[RFC PATCH v1 2/4] mm/gup: Use ptep_get_lockless_norecency()

[Ryan Roberts]

Gup needs to read ptes locklessly, so it uses ptep_get_lockless().
However, the returned access and dirty bits are unimportant so let's
switch over to ptep_get_lockless_norecency().

The wrinkle is that gup needs to check that the pte hasn't changed once
it has pinned the folio following this model:

    pte = ptep_get_lockless_norecency(ptep)
    ...
    if (!pte_same(pte, ptep_get_lockless(ptep)))
            // RACE!
    ...

And now that pte may not contain correct access and dirty information,
the pte_same() comparison could spuriously fail. So let's introduce a
new pte_same_norecency() helper which will ignore the access and dirty
bits when doing the comparison.

Note that previously, ptep_get() was being used for the comparison; this
is technically incorrect because the PTL is not held. I've also
converted the comparison to use the preferred pmd_same() helper instead
of doing a raw value comparison.

As a side-effect, this new approach removes the possibility of
concurrent read/write to the page causing a spurious fast gup failure,
because the access and dirty bits are no longer used in the comparison.

Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts at arm.com>
---
 include/linux/pgtable.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 mm/gup.c                |  7 ++++---
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/pgtable.h b/include/linux/pgtable.h
index 9dd40fdbd825..8123affa8baf 100644
--- a/include/linux/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/linux/pgtable.h
@@ -936,6 +936,24 @@ static inline int pte_same(pte_t pte_a, pte_t pte_b)
 }
 #endif

+/**
+ * pte_same_norecency - Compare pte_a and pte_b, ignoring young and dirty bits,
+ *			if the ptes are present.
+ *
+ * @pte_a: First pte to compare.
+ * @pte_b: Second pte to compare.
+ *
+ * Returns 1 if the ptes match, else 0.
+ */
+static inline int pte_same_norecency(pte_t pte_a, pte_t pte_b)
+{
+	if (pte_present(pte_a))
+		pte_a = pte_mkold(pte_mkclean(pte_a));
+	if (pte_present(pte_b))
+		pte_b = pte_mkold(pte_mkclean(pte_b));
+	return pte_same(pte_a, pte_b);
+}
+
 #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_UNUSED
 /*
  * Some architectures provide facilities to virtualization guests
diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index df83182ec72d..0f96d0a5ec09 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -2576,7 +2576,7 @@ static int gup_pte_range(pmd_t pmd, pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long addr,
 	if (!ptep)
 		return 0;
 	do {
-		pte_t pte = ptep_get_lockless(ptep);
+		pte_t pte = ptep_get_lockless_norecency(ptep);
 		struct page *page;
 		struct folio *folio;

@@ -2617,8 +2617,9 @@ static int gup_pte_range(pmd_t pmd, pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long addr,
 			goto pte_unmap;
 		}

-		if (unlikely(pmd_val(pmd) != pmd_val(*pmdp)) ||
-		    unlikely(pte_val(pte) != pte_val(ptep_get(ptep)))) {
+		if (unlikely(!pmd_same(pmd, *pmdp)) ||
+		    unlikely(!pte_same_norecency(pte,
+					ptep_get_lockless_norecency(ptep)))) {
 			gup_put_folio(folio, 1, flags);
 			goto pte_unmap;
 		}
--
2.25.1