mm/rmap: implement make_device_exclusive() using folio_walk instead of rmap walk
We require a writable PTE and only support anonymous folio: we can only have exactly one PTE pointing at that page, which we can just lookup using a folio walk, avoiding the rmap walk and the anon VMA lock. So let's stop doing an rmap walk and perform a folio walk instead, so we can easily just modify a single PTE and avoid relying on rmap/mapcounts. We now effectively work on a single PTE instead of multiple PTEs of a large folio, allowing for conversion of individual PTEs from non-exclusive to device-exclusive -- note that the opposite direction always works on single PTEs: restore_exclusive_pte(). With this change, device-exclusive handling is fully compatible with THPs / large folios. We still require PMD-sized THPs to get PTE-mapped, and supporting PMD-mapped THP (without the PTE-remapping) is a different endeavour that might not be worth it at this point: it might even have negative side-effects [1]. This gets rid of the "folio_mapcount()" usage and let's us fix ordinary rmap walks (migration/swapout) next. Spell out that messing with the mapcount is wrong and must be fixed. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Z5tI-cOSyzdLjoe_@phenom.ffwll.local Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250210193801.781278-5-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by:David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Tested-by:
Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Karol Herbst <kherbst@redhat.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Lyude <lyude@redhat.com> Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Simona Vetter <simona.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Yanteng Si <si.yanteng@linux.dev> Cc: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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