linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/6] uprobes: introduce is_swbp_at_addr

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Message-ID: <20120416144457.GA7018@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:44:57 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	Jim Keniston <jkenisto@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Anton Arapov <anton@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] uprobes: introduce is_swbp_at_addr_fast()

On 04/16, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2012-04-06 at 00:21 +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > +int __weak is_swbp_at_addr_fast(unsigned long vaddr)
> > +{
> > +       uprobe_opcode_t opcode;
> > +       int fault;
> > +
> > +       pagefault_disable();
> > +       fault = __copy_from_user_inatomic(&opcode, (void __user*)vaddr,
> > +                                                       sizeof(opcode));
> > +       pagefault_enable();
> > +
> > +       if (unlikely(fault)) {
> > +               /*
> > +                * XXX: read_opcode() lacks FOLL_FORCE, it can fail if
> > +                * we race with another thread which does mprotect(NONE)
> > +                * after we hit bp.
> > +                */
> > +               if (read_opcode(current->mm, vaddr, &opcode))
> > +                       return -EFAULT;
> > +       }
> > +
> > +       return is_swbp_insn(&opcode);
> > +}
>
> Why bother with the pagefault_disable() and unlikely fault case and not
> simply do copy_from_user() and have it deal with the fault if its needed
> anyway?

But we can't do this under down_read(mmap_sem) ?

If another thread waits for down_write() then do_page_fault() can't take
this lock, right?

Oleg.

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