mm: avoid early COW write protect games during fork()
In commit 70e806e4 ("mm: Do early cow for pinned pages during fork() for ptes") we write-protected the PTE before doing the page pinning check, in order to avoid a race with concurrent fast-GUP pinning (which doesn't take the mm semaphore or the page table lock). That trick doesn't actually work - it doesn't handle memory ordering properly, and doing so would be prohibitively expensive. It also isn't really needed. While we're moving in the direction of allowing and supporting page pinning without marking the pinned area with MADV_DONTFORK, the fact is that we've never really supported this kind of odd "concurrent fork() and page pinning", and doing the serialization on a pte level is just wrong. We can add serialization with a per-mm sequence counter, so we know how to solve that race properly, but we'll do that at a more appropriate time. Right now this just removes the write protect games. It also turns out that the write protect games act...
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