[PATCH 2/7] arm64: mm: accelerate pagefault when VM_FAULT_BADACCESS
Kefeng Wang
wangkefeng.wang at huawei.com
Tue Apr 2 00:51:37 PDT 2024
The vm_flags of vma already checked under per-VMA lock, if it is a
bad access, directly set fault to VM_FAULT_BADACCESS and handle error,
no need to lock_mm_and_find_vma() and check vm_flags again, the latency
time reduce 34% in lmbench 'lat_sig -P 1 prot lat_sig'.
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang at huawei.com>
---
arch/arm64/mm/fault.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
index 9bb9f395351a..405f9aa831bd 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
@@ -572,7 +572,9 @@ static int __kprobes do_page_fault(unsigned long far, unsigned long esr,
if (!(vma->vm_flags & vm_flags)) {
vma_end_read(vma);
- goto lock_mmap;
+ fault = VM_FAULT_BADACCESS;
+ count_vm_vma_lock_event(VMA_LOCK_SUCCESS);
+ goto done;
}
fault = handle_mm_fault(vma, addr, mm_flags | FAULT_FLAG_VMA_LOCK, regs);
if (!(fault & (VM_FAULT_RETRY | VM_FAULT_COMPLETED)))
--
2.27.0
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