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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2013-10-24 12:52:06 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2013-10-29 12:02:54 +0100
commite00b12e64be9a34ef071de7b6052ca9ea29dd460 (patch)
tree2f3395d06d639550039f3c9aa69c4ad0a4854327 /arch/x86/lib
parent2c42cfbfe10872929c2ba1f8130e31063ff59b94 (diff)
perf/x86: Further optimize copy_from_user_nmi()
Now that we can deal with nested NMI due to IRET re-enabling NMIs and can deal with faults from NMI by making sure we preserve CR2 over NMIs we can in fact simply access user-space memory from NMI context. So rewrite copy_from_user_nmi() to use __copy_from_user_inatomic() and rework the fault path to do the minimal required work before taking the in_atomic() fault handler. In particular avoid perf_sw_event() which would make perf recurse on itself (it should be harmless as our recursion protections should be able to deal with this -- but why tempt fate). Also rename notify_page_fault() to kprobes_fault() as that is a much better name; there is no notifier in it and its specific to kprobes. Don measured that his worst case NMI path shrunk from ~300K cycles to ~150K cycles. Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: jmario@redhat.com Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com Tested-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131024105206.GM2490@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/lib')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c43
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c b/arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c
index 4f74d94c8d97..5465b8613944 100644
--- a/arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c
+++ b/arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c
@@ -11,39 +11,26 @@
#include <linux/sched.h>
/*
- * best effort, GUP based copy_from_user() that is NMI-safe
+ * We rely on the nested NMI work to allow atomic faults from the NMI path; the
+ * nested NMI paths are careful to preserve CR2.
*/
unsigned long
copy_from_user_nmi(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n)
{
- unsigned long offset, addr = (unsigned long)from;
- unsigned long size, len = 0;
- struct page *page;
- void *map;
- int ret;
+ unsigned long ret;
if (__range_not_ok(from, n, TASK_SIZE))
- return len;
-
- do {
- ret = __get_user_pages_fast(addr, 1, 0, &page);
- if (!ret)
- break;
-
- offset = addr & (PAGE_SIZE - 1);
- size = min(PAGE_SIZE - offset, n - len);
-
- map = kmap_atomic(page);
- memcpy(to, map+offset, size);
- kunmap_atomic(map);
- put_page(page);
-
- len += size;
- to += size;
- addr += size;
-
- } while (len < n);
-
- return len;
+ return 0;
+
+ /*
+ * Even though this function is typically called from NMI/IRQ context
+ * disable pagefaults so that its behaviour is consistent even when
+ * called form other contexts.
+ */
+ pagefault_disable();
+ ret = __copy_from_user_inatomic(to, from, n);
+ pagefault_enable();
+
+ return n - ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(copy_from_user_nmi);