linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arm64: mm: Pass origial fault address to handle_mm

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Message-ID: <9f1c6198-a367-e3dd-f0c6-9cad7c267e39@arm.com>
Date:   Tue, 15 Jun 2021 16:41:03 +0530
From:   Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>
To:     Gavin Shan <gshan@...hat.com>, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, catalin.marinas@....com,
        will@...nel.org, mark.rutland@....com, shan.gavin@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: mm: Pass origial fault address to
 handle_mm_fault()



On 6/14/21 5:57 PM, Gavin Shan wrote:
> Currently, the lower bits of fault address is cleared before it's
> passed to handle_mm_fault(). It's unnecessary since generic code
> does same thing since the commit 1a29d85eb0f19 ("mm: use vmf->address
> instead of of vmf->virtual_address").
> 
> This passes the original fault address to handle_mm_fault() in case
> the generic code needs to know the exact fault address.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@...hat.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/mm/fault.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
> index 871c82ab0a30..e2883237216d 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
> @@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ static vm_fault_t __do_page_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
>  	 */
>  	if (!(vma->vm_flags & vm_flags))
>  		return VM_FAULT_BADACCESS;
> -	return handle_mm_fault(vma, addr & PAGE_MASK, mm_flags, regs);
> +	return handle_mm_fault(vma, addr, mm_flags, regs);
>  }
>  
>  static bool is_el0_instruction_abort(unsigned int esr)
> 

FWIW

Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>