[PATCH v3 4/4] arm64: mm: Make arch_faults_on_old_pte() check for migratability

Valentin Schneider valentin.schneider at arm.com
Wed Aug 11 13:13:54 PDT 2021


arch_faults_on_old_pte() relies on the calling context being
non-preemptible. CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT turns the PTE lock into a sleepable
spinlock, which doesn't disable preemption once acquired, triggering the
warning in arch_faults_on_old_pte().

It does however disable migration, ensuring the task remains on the same
CPU during the entirety of the critical section, making the read of
cpu_has_hw_af() safe and stable.

Make arch_faults_on_old_pte() check migratable() instead of preemptible().

Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index f09bf5c02891..8c0de3234b20 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -995,7 +995,7 @@ static inline void update_mmu_cache(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
  */
 static inline bool arch_faults_on_old_pte(void)
 {
-	WARN_ON(preemptible());
+	WARN_ON(migratable());
 
 	return !cpu_has_hw_af();
 }
-- 
2.25.1




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