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[v3,1/2] arm64: mm: implement arch_faults_on_old_pte() on arm64

Message ID 20190913163239.125108-2-justin.he@arm.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series fix double page fault on arm64 | expand

Commit Message

Jia He Sept. 13, 2019, 4:32 p.m. UTC
On arm64 without hardware Access Flag, copying fromuser will fail because
the pte is old and cannot be marked young. So we always end up with zeroed
page after fork() + CoW for pfn mappings. we don't always have a
hardware-managed access flag on arm64.

Hence implement arch_faults_on_old_pte on arm64 to indicate that it might
cause page fault when accessing old pte.

Signed-off-by: Jia He <justin.he@arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

Comments

Kirill A. Shutemov Sept. 16, 2019, 9:20 a.m. UTC | #1
On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 12:32:38AM +0800, Jia He wrote:
> On arm64 without hardware Access Flag, copying fromuser will fail because
> the pte is old and cannot be marked young. So we always end up with zeroed
> page after fork() + CoW for pfn mappings. we don't always have a
> hardware-managed access flag on arm64.
> 
> Hence implement arch_faults_on_old_pte on arm64 to indicate that it might
> cause page fault when accessing old pte.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jia He <justin.he@arm.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
> index e09760ece844..b41399d758df 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
> @@ -868,6 +868,18 @@ static inline void update_mmu_cache(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  #define phys_to_ttbr(addr)	(addr)
>  #endif
>  
> +/*
> + * On arm64 without hardware Access Flag, copying fromuser will fail because
> + * the pte is old and cannot be marked young. So we always end up with zeroed
> + * page after fork() + CoW for pfn mappings. we don't always have a
> + * hardware-managed access flag on arm64.
> + */
> +static inline bool arch_faults_on_old_pte(void)
> +{
> +	return true;

Shouldn't youc check if this particular machine supports hardware access
bit?

> +}
> +#define arch_faults_on_old_pte arch_faults_on_old_pte
> +
>  #endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */
>  
>  #endif /* __ASM_PGTABLE_H */
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 
>
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diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index e09760ece844..b41399d758df 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -868,6 +868,18 @@  static inline void update_mmu_cache(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 #define phys_to_ttbr(addr)	(addr)
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * On arm64 without hardware Access Flag, copying fromuser will fail because
+ * the pte is old and cannot be marked young. So we always end up with zeroed
+ * page after fork() + CoW for pfn mappings. we don't always have a
+ * hardware-managed access flag on arm64.
+ */
+static inline bool arch_faults_on_old_pte(void)
+{
+	return true;
+}
+#define arch_faults_on_old_pte arch_faults_on_old_pte
+
 #endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */
 
 #endif /* __ASM_PGTABLE_H */