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Lorenzo Stoakes
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In the fb_defio video driver, page dirty state is used to determine when frame buffer pages have been changed, allowing for batched, deferred I/O to be performed for efficiency. This implementation had only one means of doing so effectively - the use of the folio_mkclean() function. However, this use of the function is inappropriate, as the fb_defio implementation allocates kernel memory to back the framebuffer, and then is forced to specified page->index, mapping fields in order to permit the folio_mkclean() rmap traversal to proceed correctly. It is not correct to specify these fields on kernel-allocated memory, and moreover since these are not folios, page->index, mapping are deprecated fields, soon to be removed. We therefore need to provide a means by which we can correctly traverse the reverse mapping and write-protect mappings for a page backing an address_space page cache object at a given offset. This patch provides this - mapping_wrprotect_range() - which allows for this operation to be performed for a specified address_space, offset, PFN and size, without requiring a folio nor, of course, an inappropriate use of page->index, mapping. With this provided, we can subsequently adjust the fb_defio implementation to make use of this function and avoid incorrect invocation of folio_mkclean() and more importantly, incorrect manipulation of page->index and mapping fields. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e5bf969d64e7f2f2ae944d42341fc8994b736a81.1739029358.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com> Cc: Kajtar Zsolt <soci@c64.rulez.org> Cc: Maíra Canal <mcanal@igalia.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Simona Vetter <simona.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: Thomas Zimemrmann <tzimmermann@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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