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x86/mm: try VMA lock-based page fault handling first
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Attempt VMA lock-based page fault handling first, and fall back to the
existing mmap_lock-based handling if that fails.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
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surenbaghdasaryan authored and akpm00 committed Apr 6, 2023
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions arch/x86/Kconfig
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# Options that are inherently 64-bit kernel only:
select ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE
select ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 if CC_HAS_INT128
select ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK
select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF
select HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
select MODULES_USE_ELF_RELA
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36 changes: 36 additions & 0 deletions arch/x86/mm/fault.c
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#include <linux/uaccess.h> /* faulthandler_disabled() */
#include <linux/efi.h> /* efi_crash_gracefully_on_page_fault()*/
#include <linux/mm_types.h>
#include <linux/mm.h> /* find_and_lock_vma() */

#include <asm/cpufeature.h> /* boot_cpu_has, ... */
#include <asm/traps.h> /* dotraplinkage, ... */
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}
#endif

#ifdef CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK
if (!(flags & FAULT_FLAG_USER))
goto lock_mmap;

vma = lock_vma_under_rcu(mm, address);
if (!vma)
goto lock_mmap;

if (unlikely(access_error(error_code, vma))) {
vma_end_read(vma);
goto lock_mmap;
}
fault = handle_mm_fault(vma, address, flags | FAULT_FLAG_VMA_LOCK, regs);
vma_end_read(vma);

if (!(fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY)) {
count_vm_vma_lock_event(VMA_LOCK_SUCCESS);
goto done;
}
count_vm_vma_lock_event(VMA_LOCK_RETRY);

/* Quick path to respond to signals */
if (fault_signal_pending(fault, regs)) {
if (!user_mode(regs))
kernelmode_fixup_or_oops(regs, error_code, address,
SIGBUS, BUS_ADRERR,
ARCH_DEFAULT_PKEY);
return;
}
lock_mmap:
#endif /* CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK */

/*
* Kernel-mode access to the user address space should only occur
* on well-defined single instructions listed in the exception
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}

mmap_read_unlock(mm);
#ifdef CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK
done:
#endif
if (likely(!(fault & VM_FAULT_ERROR)))
return;

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