linux-kernel - [RFC v5 10/11] x86/mm: Add speculative pagefault handling

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Message-Id: <1497635555-25679-11-git-send-email-ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Fri, 16 Jun 2017 19:52:34 +0200
From:   Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, peterz@...radead.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, kirill@...temov.name,
        ak@...ux.intel.com, mhocko@...nel.org, dave@...olabs.net,
        jack@...e.cz, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
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        haren@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, khandual@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        npiggin@...il.com, bsingharora@...il.com,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [RFC v5 10/11] x86/mm: Add speculative pagefault handling

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>

Try a speculative fault before acquiring mmap_sem, if it returns with
VM_FAULT_RETRY continue with the mmap_sem acquisition and do the
traditional fault.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>

[Clearing of FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY is now done in
 handle_speculative_fault()]
[Retry with usual fault path in the case VM_ERROR is returned by
 handle_speculative_fault(). This allows signal to be delivered]
Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
index 8ad91a01cbc8..c62a7ea5e27b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -1365,6 +1365,19 @@ __do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
 	if (error_code & PF_INSTR)
 		flags |= FAULT_FLAG_INSTRUCTION;
 
+	if (error_code & PF_USER) {
+		fault = handle_speculative_fault(mm, address, flags);
+
+		/*
+		 * We also check against VM_FAULT_ERROR because we have to
+		 * raise a signal by calling later mm_fault_error() which
+		 * requires the vma pointer to be set. So in that case,
+		 * we fall through the normal path.
+		 */
+		if (!(fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY || fault & VM_FAULT_ERROR))
+			goto done;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * When running in the kernel we expect faults to occur only to
 	 * addresses in user space.  All other faults represent errors in
@@ -1474,6 +1487,7 @@ __do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code,
 		return;
 	}
 
+done:
 	/*
 	 * Major/minor page fault accounting. If any of the events
 	 * returned VM_FAULT_MAJOR, we account it as a major fault.
-- 
2.7.4