linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 07/14] mm: do fix spurious page-faults for instruction faults

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Date:   Mon, 18 Jul 2022 05:02:05 -0700
From:   Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@...gle.com>,
        Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
        Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>,
        Nick Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 07/14] mm: do fix spurious page-faults for instruction faults

From: Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>

The next patches might cause spurious instruction faults on x86. To
prevent them from occurring too much, call
flush_tlb_fix_spurious_fault() for page-faults on code fetching as well.
The callee is expected to do a full flush, or whatever is necessary to
avoid further TLB flushes.

Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@...gle.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>
---
 mm/memory.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 31ec3f0071a2..152a47876c36 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -4924,7 +4924,7 @@ static vm_fault_t handle_pte_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
 		 * This still avoids useless tlb flushes for .text page faults
 		 * with threads.
 		 */
-		if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE)
+		if (vmf->flags & (FAULT_FLAG_WRITE|FAULT_FLAG_INSTRUCTION))
 			flush_tlb_fix_spurious_fault(vmf->vma, vmf->address);
 	}
 unlock:
-- 
2.25.1