x86/mm: do not trigger a kernel warning if user-space disables interrupts and generates a page fault
Arjan reported a spike in the following bug pattern in v2.6.27:
http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=lock_page
which happens because hwclock started triggering warnings due to
a (correct) might_sleep() check in the MM code.
The warning occurs because hwclock uses this dubious sequence of
code to run "atomic" code:
static unsigned long
atomic(const char *name, unsigned long (*op)(unsigned long),
unsigned long arg)
{
unsigned long v;
__asm__ volatile ("cli");
v = (*op)(arg);
__asm__ volatile ("sti");
return v;
}
Then it pagefaults in that "atomic" section, triggering the warning.
There is no way the kernel could provide "atomicity" in this path,
a page fault is a cannot-continue machine event so the kernel has to
wait for the page to be filled in.
Even if it was just a minor fault we'd have to take locks and might have
to spend quite a bit of time with interrupts disabled - not nice to irq
latencies in general.
So instead just enable interrupts in the pagefault path unconditionally
if we come from user-space, and handle the fault.
Also, while touching this code, unify some trivial parts of the x86
VM paths at the same time.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
index a742d75..ac2ad78 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -645,24 +645,23 @@
}
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
- /* It's safe to allow irq's after cr2 has been saved and the vmalloc
- fault has been handled. */
- if (regs->flags & (X86_EFLAGS_IF | X86_VM_MASK))
- local_irq_enable();
-
/*
- * If we're in an interrupt, have no user context or are running in an
- * atomic region then we must not take the fault.
+ * It's safe to allow irq's after cr2 has been saved and the
+ * vmalloc fault has been handled.
+ *
+ * User-mode registers count as a user access even for any
+ * potential system fault or CPU buglet.
*/
- if (in_atomic() || !mm)
- goto bad_area_nosemaphore;
-#else /* CONFIG_X86_64 */
- if (likely(regs->flags & X86_EFLAGS_IF))
+ if (user_mode_vm(regs)) {
+ local_irq_enable();
+ error_code |= PF_USER;
+ } else if (regs->flags & X86_EFLAGS_IF)
local_irq_enable();
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
if (unlikely(error_code & PF_RSVD))
pgtable_bad(address, regs, error_code);
+#endif
/*
* If we're in an interrupt, have no user context or are running in an
@@ -671,14 +670,7 @@
if (unlikely(in_atomic() || !mm))
goto bad_area_nosemaphore;
- /*
- * User-mode registers count as a user access even for any
- * potential system fault or CPU buglet.
- */
- if (user_mode_vm(regs))
- error_code |= PF_USER;
again:
-#endif
/* When running in the kernel we expect faults to occur only to
* addresses in user space. All other faults represent errors in the
* kernel and should generate an OOPS. Unfortunately, in the case of an