Reinstate ZERO_PAGE optimization in 'get_user_pages()' and fix XIP

KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki and Oleg Nesterov point out that since the commit
557ed1fa2620dc119adb86b34c614e152a629a80 ("remove ZERO_PAGE") removed
the ZERO_PAGE from the VM mappings, any users of get_user_pages() will
generally now populate the VM with real empty pages needlessly.

We used to get the ZERO_PAGE when we did the "handle_mm_fault()", but
since fault handling no longer uses ZERO_PAGE for new anonymous pages,
we now need to handle that special case in follow_page() instead.

In particular, the removal of ZERO_PAGE effectively removed the core
file writing optimization where we would skip writing pages that had not
been populated at all, and increased memory pressure a lot by allocating
all those useless newly zeroed pages.

This reinstates the optimization by making the unmapped PTE case the
same as for a non-existent page table, which already did this correctly.

While at it, this also fixes the XIP case for follow_page(), where the
caller could not differentiate between the case of a page that simply
could not be used (because it had no "struct page" associated with it)
and a page that just wasn't mapped.

We do that by simply returning an error pointer for pages that could not
be turned into a "struct page *".  The error is arbitrarily picked to be
EFAULT, since that was what get_user_pages() already used for the
equivalent IO-mapped page case.

[ Also removed an impossible test for pte_offset_map_lock() failing:
  that's not how that function works ]

Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/migrate.c b/mm/migrate.c
index 449d77d409f5..112bcaeaa104 100644
--- a/mm/migrate.c
+++ b/mm/migrate.c
@@ -865,6 +865,11 @@ static int do_move_pages(struct mm_struct *mm, struct page_to_node *pm,
                         goto set_status;
 
                 page = follow_page(vma, pp->addr, FOLL_GET);
+
+                err = PTR_ERR(page);
+                if (IS_ERR(page))
+                        goto set_status;
+
                 err = -ENOENT;
                 if (!page)
                         goto set_status;
@@ -928,6 +933,11 @@ static int do_pages_stat(struct mm_struct *mm, struct page_to_node *pm)
                         goto set_status;
 
                 page = follow_page(vma, pm->addr, 0);
+
+                err = PTR_ERR(page);
+                if (IS_ERR(page))
+                        goto set_status;
+
                 err = -ENOENT;
                 /* Use PageReserved to check for zero page */
                 if (!page || PageReserved(page))