From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: + mm-return-faster-for-non-fatal-signals-in-user-mode-faults.patch added to -mm tree Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2020 20:38:50 -0700 Message-ID: <20200310033850.ZKbMIv_X0%akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20200305222751.6d781a3f2802d79510941e4e@linux-foundation.org> Reply-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:52702 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726195AbgCJDiy (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2020 23:38:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20200305222751.6d781a3f2802d79510941e4e@linux-foundation.org> Sender: mm-commits-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org To: aarcange@redhat.com, bgeffon@google.com, bobbypowers@gmail.com, cracauer@cons.org, david@redhat.com, dgilbert@redhat.com, dplotnikov@virtuozzo.com, gokhale2@llnl.gov, hannes@cmpxchg.org, hughd@google.com, jglisse@redhat.com, kirill@shutemov.name, mcfadden8@llnl.gov, mgorman@suse.de, mike.kravetz@oracle.com, mm-commits@vger.kernel.org, peterx@redhat.com, rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, willy@infradead.org, xemul@virtuozzo.com The patch titled Subject: mm: return faster for non-fatal signals in user mode faults has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-return-faster-for-non-fatal-signals-in-user-mode-faults.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-return-faster-for-non-fatal-signals-in-user-mode-faults.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-return-faster-for-non-fatal-signals-in-user-mode-faults.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Peter Xu Subject: 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. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200220160230.9598-1-peterx@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Peter Xu Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Suggested-by: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Bobby Powers Cc: Brian Geffon Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Denis Plotnikov Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Jerome Glisse Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" Cc: Martin Cracauer Cc: Marty McFadden Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Maya Gokhale Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Mike Kravetz Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- include/linux/sched/signal.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/include/linux/sched/signal.h~mm-return-faster-for-non-fatal-signals-in-user-mode-faults +++ a/include/linux/sched/signal.h @@ -379,7 +379,8 @@ static inline bool fault_signal_pending( 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)))); } /* _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from peterx@redhat.com are mm-gup-rename-nonblocking-to-locked-where-proper.patch mm-gup-fix-__get_user_pages-on-fault-retry-of-hugetlb.patch mm-introduce-fault_signal_pending.patch x86-mm-use-helper-fault_signal_pending.patch arc-mm-use-helper-fault_signal_pending.patch arm64-mm-use-helper-fault_signal_pending.patch powerpc-mm-use-helper-fault_signal_pending.patch sh-mm-use-helper-fault_signal_pending.patch mm-return-faster-for-non-fatal-signals-in-user-mode-faults.patch userfaultfd-dont-retake-mmap_sem-to-emulate-nopage.patch mm-introduce-fault_flag_default.patch mm-introduce-fault_flag_interruptible.patch mm-allow-vm_fault_retry-for-multiple-times.patch mm-gup-allow-vm_fault_retry-for-multiple-times.patch mm-gup-allow-to-react-to-fatal-signals.patch mm-userfaultfd-honor-fault_flag_killable-in-fault-path.patch mm-merge-parameters-for-change_protection.patch userfaultfd-wp-apply-_page_uffd_wp-bit.patch userfaultfd-wp-drop-_page_uffd_wp-properly-when-fork.patch userfaultfd-wp-add-pmd_swp_uffd_wp-helpers.patch userfaultfd-wp-support-swap-and-page-migration.patch khugepaged-skip-collapse-if-uffd-wp-detected.patch userfaultfd-wp-dont-wake-up-when-doing-write-protect.patch userfaultfd-wp-declare-_uffdio_writeprotect-conditionally.patch userfaultfd-selftests-refactor-statistics.patch userfaultfd-selftests-add-write-protect-test.patch