linux-kernel - [PATCH v17 13/23] mm: pagewalk: Don't lock PTEs for walk_page_range

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Date:   Wed, 18 Dec 2019 16:23:52 +0000
From:   Steven Price <steven.price@....com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     Steven Price <steven.price@....com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, x86@...nel.org,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Mark Rutland <Mark.Rutland@....com>,
        "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v17 13/23] mm: pagewalk: Don't lock PTEs for walk_page_range_novma()

walk_page_range_novma() can be used to walk page tables or the kernel or
for firmware. These page tables may contain entries that are not backed
by a struct page and so it isn't (in general) possible to take the PTE
lock for the pte_entry() callback. So update walk_pte_range() to only
take the lock when no_vma==false by splitting out the inner loop to a
separate function and add a comment explaining the difference to
walk_page_range_novma().

Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price@....com>
---
 mm/pagewalk.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/pagewalk.c b/mm/pagewalk.c
index d5773465f6da..4b5ee92ba079 100644
--- a/mm/pagewalk.c
+++ b/mm/pagewalk.c
@@ -4,15 +4,12 @@
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/hugetlb.h>
 
-static int walk_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
-			  struct mm_walk *walk)
+static int walk_pte_range_inner(pte_t *pte, unsigned long addr,
+				unsigned long end, struct mm_walk *walk)
 {
-	pte_t *pte;
-	int err = 0;
 	const struct mm_walk_ops *ops = walk->ops;
-	spinlock_t *ptl;
+	int err = 0;
 
-	pte = pte_offset_map_lock(walk->mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
 	for (;;) {
 		err = ops->pte_entry(pte, addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE, walk);
 		if (err)
@@ -22,8 +19,26 @@ static int walk_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 			break;
 		pte++;
 	}
+	return err;
+}
+
+static int walk_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
+			  struct mm_walk *walk)
+{
+	pte_t *pte;
+	int err = 0;
+	spinlock_t *ptl;
+
+	if (walk->no_vma) {
+		pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, addr);
+		err = walk_pte_range_inner(pte, addr, end, walk);
+		pte_unmap(pte);
+	} else {
+		pte = pte_offset_map_lock(walk->mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);
+		err = walk_pte_range_inner(pte, addr, end, walk);
+		pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl);
+	}
 
-	pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl);
 	return err;
 }
 
@@ -394,6 +409,12 @@ int walk_page_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
 	return err;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Similar to walk_page_range() but can walk any page tables even if they are
+ * not backed by VMAs. Because 'unusual' entries may be walked this function
+ * will also not lock the PTEs for the pte_entry() callback. This is useful for
+ * walking the kernel pages tables or page tables for firmware.
+ */
 int walk_page_range_novma(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
 			  unsigned long end, const struct mm_walk_ops *ops,
 			  void *private)
-- 
2.20.1