mm: introduce page_needs_cow_for_dma() for deciding whether cow
authorPeter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Sat, 13 Mar 2021 05:07:26 +0000 (21:07 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 13 Mar 2021 19:27:30 +0000 (11:27 -0800)
commit97a7e4733b9b221d012ae68fcd3b3251febf6341
tree3d10cd8230f56f3b1b1dca122d3220f37b86a1cf
parentca7e0457efefca9eeee8c42a89a7f450651d555b
mm: introduce page_needs_cow_for_dma() for deciding whether cow

We've got quite a few places (pte, pmd, pud) that explicitly checked
against whether we should break the cow right now during fork().  It's
easier to provide a helper, especially before we work the same thing on
hugetlbfs.

Since we'll reference is_cow_mapping() in mm.h, move it there too.
Actually it suites mm.h more since internal.h is mm/ only, but mm.h is
exported to the whole kernel.  With that we should expect another patch to
use is_cow_mapping() whenever we can across the kernel since we do use it
quite a lot but it's always done with raw code against VM_* flags.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210217233547.93892-4-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Gal Pressman <galpress@amazon.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Kirill Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Roland Scheidegger <sroland@vmware.com>
Cc: VMware Graphics <linux-graphics-maintainer@vmware.com>
Cc: Wei Zhang <wzam@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/mm.h
mm/huge_memory.c
mm/internal.h
mm/memory.c