[PATCH 09/16] x86/mm: Add speculative pagefault handling

From: Laurent Dufour
Date: Tue Aug 08 2017 - 10:38:22 EST


From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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 2a1fa10c6a98..46fb9c2a832d 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