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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2006-10-06 00:43:53 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-10-06 08:53:40 -0700
commit7f7bbbe50b8a28f4dfaa4cea939ddb50198c4a99 (patch)
tree6421bee762afd8f09c643e90860c4bdbe4dde93b /include/linux/mm.h
parent1ca4cb2418c04914e4661c059cf5b7b9262c645a (diff)
[PATCH] page fault retry with NOPAGE_REFAULT
Add a way for a no_page() handler to request a retry of the faulting instruction. It goes back to userland on page faults and just tries again in get_user_pages(). I added a cond_resched() in the loop in that later case. The problem I have with signal and spufs is an actual bug affecting apps and I don't see other ways of fixing it. In addition, we are having issues with infiniband and 64k pages (related to the way the hypervisor deals with some HV cards) that will require us to muck around with the MMU from within the IB driver's no_page() (it's a pSeries specific driver) and return to the caller the same way using NOPAGE_REFAULT. And to add to this, the graphics folks have been following a new approach of memory management that involves transparently swapping objects between video ram and main meory. To do that, they need installing PTEs from a no_page() handler as well and that also requires returning with NOPAGE_REFAULT. (For the later, they are currently using io_remap_pfn_range to install one PTE from no_page() which is a bit racy, we need to add a check for the PTE having already been installed afer taking the lock, but that's ok, they are only at the proof-of-concept stage. I'll send a patch adding a "clean" function to do that, we can use that from spufs too and get rid of the sparsemem hacks we do to create struct page for SPEs. Basically, that provides a generic solution for being able to have no_page() map hardware devices, which is something that I think sound driver folks have been asking for some time too). All of these things depend on having the NOPAGE_REFAULT exit path from no_page() handlers. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenchmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mm.h')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index b7966ab8cb6a..26146623be2f 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -593,6 +593,7 @@ static inline int page_mapped(struct page *page)
*/
#define NOPAGE_SIGBUS (NULL)
#define NOPAGE_OOM ((struct page *) (-1))
+#define NOPAGE_REFAULT ((struct page *) (-2)) /* Return to userspace, rerun */
/*
* Error return values for the *_nopfn functions