[PATCH v17 13/23] mm: pagewalk: Don't lock PTEs for walk_page_range_novma()
From: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Date: 2019-12-18 16:25:06
Also in:
linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem:
memory management, memory management - core, the rest · Maintainers:
Andrew Morton, David Hildenbrand, Linus Torvalds
walk_page_range_novma() can be used to walk page tables or the kernel or for firmware. These page tables may contain entries that are not backed by a struct page and so it isn't (in general) possible to take the PTE lock for the pte_entry() callback. So update walk_pte_range() to only take the lock when no_vma==false by splitting out the inner loop to a separate function and add a comment explaining the difference to walk_page_range_novma(). Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com> --- mm/pagewalk.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/pagewalk.c b/mm/pagewalk.c
index d5773465f6da..4b5ee92ba079 100644
--- a/mm/pagewalk.c
+++ b/mm/pagewalk.c@@ -4,15 +4,12 @@ #include <linux/sched.h> #include <linux/hugetlb.h> -static int walk_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, - struct mm_walk *walk) +static int walk_pte_range_inner(pte_t *pte, unsigned long addr, + unsigned long end, struct mm_walk *walk) { - pte_t *pte; - int err = 0; const struct mm_walk_ops *ops = walk->ops; - spinlock_t *ptl; + int err = 0; - pte = pte_offset_map_lock(walk->mm, pmd, addr, &ptl); for (;;) { err = ops->pte_entry(pte, addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE, walk); if (err)
@@ -22,8 +19,26 @@ static int walk_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, break; pte++; } + return err; +} + +static int walk_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end, + struct mm_walk *walk) +{ + pte_t *pte; + int err = 0; + spinlock_t *ptl; + + if (walk->no_vma) { + pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, addr); + err = walk_pte_range_inner(pte, addr, end, walk); + pte_unmap(pte); + } else { + pte = pte_offset_map_lock(walk->mm, pmd, addr, &ptl); + err = walk_pte_range_inner(pte, addr, end, walk); + pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl); + } - pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl); return err; }
@@ -394,6 +409,12 @@ int walk_page_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, return err; } +/* + * Similar to walk_page_range() but can walk any page tables even if they are + * not backed by VMAs. Because 'unusual' entries may be walked this function + * will also not lock the PTEs for the pte_entry() callback. This is useful for + * walking the kernel pages tables or page tables for firmware. + */ int walk_page_range_novma(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start, unsigned long end, const struct mm_walk_ops *ops, void *private)
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2.20.1
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