From 9637a5efd4fbe36164c5ce7f6a0ee68b2bf22b7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Howells Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 02:03:43 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] add page_mkwrite() vm_operations method Add a new VMA operation to notify a filesystem or other driver about the MMU generating a fault because userspace attempted to write to a page mapped through a read-only PTE. This facility permits the filesystem or driver to: (*) Implement storage allocation/reservation on attempted write, and so to deal with problems such as ENOSPC more gracefully (perhaps by generating SIGBUS). (*) Delay making the page writable until the contents have been written to a backing cache. This is useful for NFS/AFS when using FS-Cache/CacheFS. It permits the filesystem to have some guarantee about the state of the cache. (*) Account and limit number of dirty pages. This is one piece of the puzzle needed to make shared writable mapping work safely in FUSE. Needed by cachefs (Or is it cachefiles? Or fscache? ). At least four other groups have stated an interest in it or a desire to use the functionality it provides: FUSE, OCFS2, NTFS and JFFS2. Also, things like EXT3 really ought to use it to deal with the case of shared-writable mmap encountering ENOSPC before we permit the page to be dirtied. From: Peter Zijlstra get_user_pages(.write=1, .force=1) can generate COW hits on read-only shared mappings, this patch traps those as mkpage_write candidates and fails to handle them the old way. Signed-off-by: David Howells Cc: Miklos Szeredi Cc: Joel Becker Cc: Mark Fasheh Cc: Anton Altaparmakov Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/mm.h | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 697c6bf248c..3b09444121d 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -199,6 +199,10 @@ struct vm_operations_struct { void (*close)(struct vm_area_struct * area); struct page * (*nopage)(struct vm_area_struct * area, unsigned long address, int *type); int (*populate)(struct vm_area_struct * area, unsigned long address, unsigned long len, pgprot_t prot, unsigned long pgoff, int nonblock); + + /* notification that a previously read-only page is about to become + * writable, if an error is returned it will cause a SIGBUS */ + int (*page_mkwrite)(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page); #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA int (*set_policy)(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct mempolicy *new); struct mempolicy *(*get_policy)(struct vm_area_struct *vma, -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2