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author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2019-07-11 20:56:49 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-07-12 11:05:44 -0700 |
commit | 39656e83dab918861931ef96e5c41731b0899e56 (patch) | |
tree | 6cd4dbb48e2c11a2c934c3db06a1de0c1ed2f96c /mm/gup.c | |
parent | 26f4c328079d78d6cd0462c53c14ec0b69f4748e (diff) |
mm: lift the x86_32 PAE version of gup_get_pte to common code
The split low/high access is the only non-READ_ONCE version of gup_get_pte
that did show up in the various arch implemenations. Lift it to common
code and drop the ifdef based arch override.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190625143715.1689-4-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>
Cc: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/gup.c')
-rw-r--r-- | mm/gup.c | 51 |
1 files changed, 47 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -1684,17 +1684,60 @@ struct page *get_dump_page(unsigned long addr) * This code is based heavily on the PowerPC implementation by Nick Piggin. */ #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_GENERIC_GUP +#ifdef CONFIG_GUP_GET_PTE_LOW_HIGH +/* + * WARNING: only to be used in the get_user_pages_fast() implementation. + * + * With get_user_pages_fast(), we walk down the pagetables without taking any + * locks. For this we would like to load the pointers atomically, but sometimes + * that is not possible (e.g. without expensive cmpxchg8b on x86_32 PAE). What + * we do have is the guarantee that a PTE will only either go from not present + * to present, or present to not present or both -- it will not switch to a + * completely different present page without a TLB flush in between; something + * that we are blocking by holding interrupts off. + * + * Setting ptes from not present to present goes: + * + * ptep->pte_high = h; + * smp_wmb(); + * ptep->pte_low = l; + * + * And present to not present goes: + * + * ptep->pte_low = 0; + * smp_wmb(); + * ptep->pte_high = 0; + * + * We must ensure here that the load of pte_low sees 'l' IFF pte_high sees 'h'. + * We load pte_high *after* loading pte_low, which ensures we don't see an older + * value of pte_high. *Then* we recheck pte_low, which ensures that we haven't + * picked up a changed pte high. We might have gotten rubbish values from + * pte_low and pte_high, but we are guaranteed that pte_low will not have the + * present bit set *unless* it is 'l'. Because get_user_pages_fast() only + * operates on present ptes we're safe. + */ +static inline pte_t gup_get_pte(pte_t *ptep) +{ + pte_t pte; -#ifndef gup_get_pte + do { + pte.pte_low = ptep->pte_low; + smp_rmb(); + pte.pte_high = ptep->pte_high; + smp_rmb(); + } while (unlikely(pte.pte_low != ptep->pte_low)); + + return pte; +} +#else /* CONFIG_GUP_GET_PTE_LOW_HIGH */ /* - * We assume that the PTE can be read atomically. If this is not the case for - * your architecture, please provide the helper. + * We require that the PTE can be read atomically. */ static inline pte_t gup_get_pte(pte_t *ptep) { return READ_ONCE(*ptep); } -#endif +#endif /* CONFIG_GUP_GET_PTE_LOW_HIGH */ static void undo_dev_pagemap(int *nr, int nr_start, struct page **pages) { |