linux-kernel - [PATCHv7 24/33] x86/vdso: On timens page fault prefault also VVAR page

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Message-Id: <20191011012341.846266-25-dima@arista.com>
Date:   Fri, 11 Oct 2019 02:23:32 +0100
From:   Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@...il.com>,
        Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>,
        Adrian Reber <adrian@...as.de>,
        Andrei Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>,
        Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>, Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...tuozzo.com>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>,
        containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org, criu@...nvz.org,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
        Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCHv7 24/33] x86/vdso: On timens page fault prefault also VVAR page

As timens page has offsets to data on VVAR page VVAR is going
to be accessed shortly. Set it up with timens in one page fault
as optimization.

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Co-developed-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>
---
 arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.c b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.c
index f6e13ab29d94..d6cb8a16f368 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.c
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.c
@@ -169,8 +169,23 @@ static vm_fault_t vvar_fault(const struct vm_special_mapping *sm,
 		 * offset.
 		 * See also the comment near timens_setup_vdso_data().
 		 */
-		if (timens_page)
+		if (timens_page) {
+			unsigned long addr;
+			vm_fault_t err;
+
+			/*
+			 * Optimization: inside time namespace pre-fault
+			 * VVAR page too. As on timens page there are only
+			 * offsets for clocks on VVAR, it'll be faulted
+			 * shortly by VDSO code.
+			 */
+			addr = vmf->address + (image->sym_timens_page - sym_offset);
+			err = vmf_insert_pfn(vma, addr, pfn);
+			if (unlikely(err & VM_FAULT_ERROR))
+				return err;
+
 			pfn = page_to_pfn(timens_page);
+		}
 
 		return vmf_insert_pfn(vma, vmf->address, pfn);
 	} else if (sym_offset == image->sym_pvclock_page) {
-- 
2.23.0