[PATCH 1/1] arm: fault.c: correct how the tsk->[maj|min]_flt gets incremented

Kautuk Consul consul.kautuk at gmail.com
Sun Mar 25 00:07:53 EDT 2012


Hi,

did anyone get an opportunity to review this change ?


On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Kautuk Consul <consul.kautuk at gmail.com> wrote:
> commit 8878a539ff19a43cf3729e7562cd528f490246ae was done by me
> to make the page fault handler retryable as well as interruptible.
>
> Due to this commit, there is a mistake in the way in which
> tsk->[maj|min]_flt counter gets incremented for VM_FAULT_ERROR:
> If VM_FAULT_ERROR is returned in the fault flags by handle_mm_fault,
> then either maj_flt or min_flt will get incremented. This is wrong
> as in the case of a VM_FAULT_ERROR we need to be skip ahead to the
> error handling code in do_page_fault.
>
> Added a check after the call to __do_page_fault() to check for
> (fault & VM_FAULT_ERROR).
>
> Signed-off-by: Kautuk Consul <consul.kautuk at gmail.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/mm/fault.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm/mm/fault.c
> index bb7eac3..ec8c88b 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mm/fault.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mm/fault.c
> @@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ retry:
>         */
>
>        perf_sw_event(PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS, 1, regs, addr);
> -       if (flags & FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY) {
> +       if (!(fault & VM_FAULT_ERROR) && (flags & FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY)) {
>                if (fault & VM_FAULT_MAJOR) {
>                        tsk->maj_flt++;
>                        perf_sw_event(PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS_MAJ, 1,
> --
> 1.7.5.4
>



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