[PATCH] powerpc/mm: some cleanup of do_page_fault()
Aneesh Kumar K.V
aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Apr 17 18:35:05 AEST 2017
Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr> writes:
> This patch is a bunch of small cleanups of the do_page_fault()
> function:
> 1/ Function store_updates_sp() checks whether the faulting
> instruction is a store updating r1. Therefore we can limit its calls
> to stores exceptions
> 2/ Only the get_user() in store_updates_sp() has to be done outside
> the mm semaphore. All the comparison can be done within the semaphore,
> so only when really needed.
> 3/ As we got a DSI exception, the address pointed by regs->nip is
> obviously valid, otherwise we would have had a instruction exception.
> So __get_user() can be used instead of get_user()
> 4/ Replaced one duplicate 'trap == 0x400' by 'is_exec'
> 5/ Created a 'is_user = user_mode(regs)' and replaced all
> 'user_mode(regs)'.
If this can be made a seperate patch, I guess it will make this patch
much easier to review.
> Analysis of the assembly code shows that when using user_mode(regs),
> at least the 'andi. r7,r8,16384' is redone several times, and also
> the 'lwz r8,132(r31)' at times. With the new form, the 'is_user'
> is mapped to cr4, then all further use of is_user results in just
> things like 'beq cr4,218 <do_page_fault+0x218>'
> 6/ The 8xx has a dedicated exception for breakpoints, that directly
> calls do_break()
> 7/ stdu and stdux only exist on PPC64, so no need to check for them
> on PPC32
>
> With this patch, on PPC8xx the size of do_page_fault() is reduced by
> 12% (from 1420 bytes to 1248 bytes)
>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++----------------
> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
> index 3a7d580fdc59..5aa43268baca 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
> @@ -73,12 +73,8 @@ static inline int notify_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs)
> * Check whether the instruction at regs->nip is a store using
> * an update addressing form which will update r1.
> */
> -static int store_updates_sp(struct pt_regs *regs)
> +static int store_updates_sp(unsigned int inst)
> {
> - unsigned int inst;
> -
> - if (get_user(inst, (unsigned int __user *)regs->nip))
> - return 0;
> /* check for 1 in the rA field */
> if (((inst >> 16) & 0x1f) != 1)
> return 0;
> @@ -90,12 +86,16 @@ static int store_updates_sp(struct pt_regs *regs)
> case 53: /* stfsu */
> case 55: /* stfdu */
> return 1;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
> case 62: /* std or stdu */
> return (inst & 3) == 1;
> +#endif
> case 31:
> /* check minor opcode */
> switch ((inst >> 1) & 0x3ff) {
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
> case 181: /* stdux */
> +#endif
> case 183: /* stwux */
> case 247: /* stbux */
> case 439: /* sthux */
> @@ -207,7 +207,9 @@ int do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,
> int trap = TRAP(regs);
> int is_exec = trap == 0x400;
> int fault;
> - int rc = 0, store_update_sp = 0;
> + int rc = 0;
> + int is_user = user_mode(regs);
> + unsigned int inst = 0;
>
> #if !(defined(CONFIG_4xx) || defined(CONFIG_BOOKE))
> /*
> @@ -216,7 +218,7 @@ int do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,
> * bits we are interested in. But there are some bits which
> * indicate errors in DSISR but can validly be set in SRR1.
> */
> - if (trap == 0x400)
> + if (is_exec)
> error_code &= 0x48200000;
> else
> is_write = error_code & DSISR_ISSTORE;
> @@ -247,13 +249,13 @@ int do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,
> * The kernel should never take an execute fault nor should it
> * take a page fault to a kernel address.
> */
> - if (!user_mode(regs) && (is_exec || (address >= TASK_SIZE))) {
> + if (!is_user && (is_exec || (address >= TASK_SIZE))) {
> rc = SIGSEGV;
> goto bail;
> }
>
> #if !(defined(CONFIG_4xx) || defined(CONFIG_BOOKE) || \
> - defined(CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64))
> + defined(CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64) || defined(CONFIG_PPC_8xx))
> if (error_code & DSISR_DABRMATCH) {
> /* breakpoint match */
> do_break(regs, address, error_code);
> @@ -266,7 +268,7 @@ int do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,
> local_irq_enable();
>
> if (faulthandler_disabled() || mm == NULL) {
> - if (!user_mode(regs)) {
> + if (!is_user) {
> rc = SIGSEGV;
> goto bail;
> }
> @@ -287,10 +289,10 @@ int do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,
> * can result in fault, which will cause a deadlock when called with
> * mmap_sem held
> */
> - if (!is_exec && user_mode(regs))
> - store_update_sp = store_updates_sp(regs);
> + if (is_write && is_user)
> + __get_user(inst, (unsigned int __user *)regs->nip);
>
Update the comment around to explain that is_write and is_user check .
ie, we can say we will use that inst to check stdu form later and hence
we need todo this only if it is write fault ?
> - if (user_mode(regs))
> + if (is_user)
> flags |= FAULT_FLAG_USER;
>
> /* When running in the kernel we expect faults to occur only to
> @@ -309,7 +311,7 @@ int do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,
> * thus avoiding the deadlock.
> */
> if (!down_read_trylock(&mm->mmap_sem)) {
> - if (!user_mode(regs) && !search_exception_tables(regs->nip))
> + if (!is_user && !search_exception_tables(regs->nip))
> goto bad_area_nosemaphore;
>
> retry:
> @@ -358,7 +360,7 @@ int do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,
> * between the last mapped region and the stack will
> * expand the stack rather than segfaulting.
> */
> - if (address + 2048 < uregs->gpr[1] && !store_update_sp)
> + if (address + 2048 < uregs->gpr[1] && !store_updates_sp(inst))
> goto bad_area;
> }
> if (expand_stack(vma, address))
> @@ -509,7 +511,7 @@ int do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,
>
> bad_area_nosemaphore:
> /* User mode accesses cause a SIGSEGV */
> - if (user_mode(regs)) {
> + if (is_user) {
> _exception(SIGSEGV, regs, code, address);
> goto bail;
> }
> --
> 2.12.0
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