[PATCH 19/29] mm: implement speculative handling in do_numa_page()

From: Michel Lespinasse
Date: Fri Apr 30 2021 - 15:53:52 EST


change do_numa_page() to use pte_spinlock() when locking the page table,
so that the mmap sequence counter will be validated in the speculative case.

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <michel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memory.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index eceb1b6e904c..a2230269e034 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -4198,8 +4198,8 @@ static vm_fault_t do_numa_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
* validation through pte_unmap_same(). It's of NUMA type but
* the pfn may be screwed if the read is non atomic.
*/
- vmf->ptl = pte_lockptr(vma->vm_mm, vmf->pmd);
- spin_lock(vmf->ptl);
+ if (!pte_spinlock(vmf))
+ return VM_FAULT_RETRY;
if (unlikely(!pte_same(*vmf->pte, vmf->orig_pte))) {
pte_unmap_unlock(vmf->pte, vmf->ptl);
goto out;
--
2.20.1