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authorPeter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>2020-04-01 21:08:29 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-04-02 09:35:29 -0700
commit8b9a65fd282c1d2e5b8ba8d8afaf652cde27b5e7 (patch)
treeb89b766763cdc2ae0e895cae8e997498d9e42e1d /include
parentfb027ada051a9e2d70a069b2aa62fb6f52100bbf (diff)
mm: return faster for non-fatal signals in user mode faults
The idea comes from the upstream discussion between Linus and Andrea: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20171102193644.GB22686@redhat.com/ A summary to the issue: there was a special path in handle_userfault() in the past that we'll return a VM_FAULT_NOPAGE when we detected non-fatal signals when waiting for userfault handling. We did that by reacquiring the mmap_sem before returning. However that brings a risk in that the vmas might have changed when we retake the mmap_sem and even we could be holding an invalid vma structure. This patch is a preparation of removing that special path by allowing the page fault to return even faster if we were interrupted by a non-fatal signal during a user-mode page fault handling routine. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Suggested-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Tested-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com> Cc: Bobby Powers <bobbypowers@gmail.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Denis Plotnikov <dplotnikov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> Cc: Marty McFadden <mcfadden8@llnl.gov> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Maya Gokhale <gokhale2@llnl.gov> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200220160230.9598-1-peterx@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sched/signal.h3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched/signal.h b/include/linux/sched/signal.h
index 7e7271374799..65ea429daaa2 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/signal.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/signal.h
@@ -381,7 +381,8 @@ static inline bool fault_signal_pending(vm_fault_t fault_flags,
struct pt_regs *regs)
{
return unlikely((fault_flags & VM_FAULT_RETRY) &&
- fatal_signal_pending(current));
+ (fatal_signal_pending(current) ||
+ (user_mode(regs) && signal_pending(current))));
}
/*