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-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c7
-rw-r--r--mm/mlock.c7
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 9144fae..b8f97b8 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -3299,7 +3299,12 @@ int make_pages_present(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end)
vma = find_vma(current->mm, addr);
if (!vma)
return -ENOMEM;
- write = (vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE) != 0;
+ /*
+ * We want to touch writable mappings with a write fault in order
+ * to break COW, except for shared mappings because these don't COW
+ * and we would not want to dirty them for nothing.
+ */
+ write = (vma->vm_flags & (VM_WRITE | VM_SHARED)) == VM_WRITE;
BUG_ON(addr >= end);
BUG_ON(end > vma->vm_end);
len = DIV_ROUND_UP(end, PAGE_SIZE) - addr/PAGE_SIZE;
diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c
index b70919c..4f31864 100644
--- a/mm/mlock.c
+++ b/mm/mlock.c
@@ -171,7 +171,12 @@ static long __mlock_vma_pages_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
VM_BUG_ON(!rwsem_is_locked(&mm->mmap_sem));
gup_flags = FOLL_TOUCH | FOLL_GET;
- if (vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE)
+ /*
+ * We want to touch writable mappings with a write fault in order
+ * to break COW, except for shared mappings because these don't COW
+ * and we would not want to dirty them for nothing.
+ */
+ if ((vma->vm_flags & (VM_WRITE | VM_SHARED)) == VM_WRITE)
gup_flags |= FOLL_WRITE;
/* We don't try to access the guard page of a stack vma */
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