[PATCH rfc v2 01/10] mm: add a generic VMA lock-based page fault handler

Alexander Gordeev agordeev at linux.ibm.com
Thu Aug 24 00:12:45 PDT 2023


On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 08:30:47PM +0800, Kefeng Wang wrote:

Hi Kefeng,

> The ARCH_SUPPORTS_PER_VMA_LOCK are enabled by more and more architectures,
> eg, x86, arm64, powerpc and s390, and riscv, those implementation are very
> similar which results in some duplicated codes, let's add a generic VMA
> lock-based page fault handler try_to_vma_locked_page_fault() to eliminate
> them, and which also make us easy to support this on new architectures.
> 
> Since different architectures use different way to check vma whether is
> accessable or not, the struct pt_regs, page fault error code and vma flags
> are added into struct vm_fault, then, the architecture's page fault code
> could re-use struct vm_fault to record and check vma accessable by each
> own implementation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang at huawei.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/mm.h       | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/mm_types.h |  2 ++
>  mm/memory.c              | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 58 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index 3f764e84e567..22a6f4c56ff3 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -512,9 +512,12 @@ struct vm_fault {
>  		pgoff_t pgoff;			/* Logical page offset based on vma */
>  		unsigned long address;		/* Faulting virtual address - masked */
>  		unsigned long real_address;	/* Faulting virtual address - unmasked */
> +		unsigned long fault_code;	/* Faulting error code during page fault */
> +		struct pt_regs *regs;		/* The registers stored during page fault */
>  	};
>  	enum fault_flag flags;		/* FAULT_FLAG_xxx flags
>  					 * XXX: should really be 'const' */
> +	vm_flags_t vm_flags;		/* VMA flags to be used for access checking */
>  	pmd_t *pmd;			/* Pointer to pmd entry matching
>  					 * the 'address' */
>  	pud_t *pud;			/* Pointer to pud entry matching
> @@ -774,6 +777,9 @@ static inline void assert_fault_locked(struct vm_fault *vmf)
>  struct vm_area_struct *lock_vma_under_rcu(struct mm_struct *mm,
>  					  unsigned long address);
>  
> +bool arch_vma_access_error(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf);
> +vm_fault_t try_vma_locked_page_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf);
> +
>  #else /* CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK */
>  
>  static inline bool vma_start_read(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> @@ -801,6 +807,17 @@ static inline void assert_fault_locked(struct vm_fault *vmf)
>  	mmap_assert_locked(vmf->vma->vm_mm);
>  }
>  
> +static inline struct vm_area_struct *lock_vma_under_rcu(struct mm_struct *mm,
> +		unsigned long address)
> +{
> +	return NULL;
> +}
> +
> +static inline vm_fault_t try_vma_locked_page_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> +{
> +	return VM_FAULT_NONE;
> +}
> +
>  #endif /* CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK */
>  
>  extern const struct vm_operations_struct vma_dummy_vm_ops;
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
> index f5ba5b0bc836..702820cea3f9 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
> @@ -1119,6 +1119,7 @@ typedef __bitwise unsigned int vm_fault_t;
>   * fault. Used to decide whether a process gets delivered SIGBUS or
>   * just gets major/minor fault counters bumped up.
>   *
> + * @VM_FAULT_NONE:		Special case, not starting to handle fault
>   * @VM_FAULT_OOM:		Out Of Memory
>   * @VM_FAULT_SIGBUS:		Bad access
>   * @VM_FAULT_MAJOR:		Page read from storage
> @@ -1139,6 +1140,7 @@ typedef __bitwise unsigned int vm_fault_t;
>   *
>   */
>  enum vm_fault_reason {
> +	VM_FAULT_NONE		= (__force vm_fault_t)0x000000,
>  	VM_FAULT_OOM            = (__force vm_fault_t)0x000001,
>  	VM_FAULT_SIGBUS         = (__force vm_fault_t)0x000002,
>  	VM_FAULT_MAJOR          = (__force vm_fault_t)0x000004,
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index 3b4aaa0d2fff..60fe35db5134 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -5510,6 +5510,45 @@ struct vm_area_struct *lock_vma_under_rcu(struct mm_struct *mm,
>  	count_vm_vma_lock_event(VMA_LOCK_ABORT);
>  	return NULL;
>  }
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK
> +bool __weak arch_vma_access_error(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf)
> +{
> +	return (vma->vm_flags & vmf->vm_flags) == 0;
> +}
> +#endif
> +
> +vm_fault_t try_vma_locked_page_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> +{
> +	vm_fault_t fault = VM_FAULT_NONE;
> +	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
> +
> +	if (!(vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_USER))
> +		return fault;
> +
> +	vma = lock_vma_under_rcu(current->mm, vmf->real_address);
> +	if (!vma)
> +		return fault;
> +
> +	if (arch_vma_access_error(vma, vmf)) {
> +		vma_end_read(vma);
> +		return fault;
> +	}
> +
> +	fault = handle_mm_fault(vma, vmf->real_address,
> +				vmf->flags | FAULT_FLAG_VMA_LOCK, vmf->regs);
> +
> +	if (!(fault & (VM_FAULT_RETRY | VM_FAULT_COMPLETED)))
> +		vma_end_read(vma);

Could you please explain how vma_end_read() call could be conditional?

> +
> +	if (fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY)
> +		count_vm_vma_lock_event(VMA_LOCK_RETRY);
> +	else
> +		count_vm_vma_lock_event(VMA_LOCK_SUCCESS);
> +
> +	return fault;
> +}
> +
>  #endif /* CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK */
>  
>  #ifndef __PAGETABLE_P4D_FOLDED



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