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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2006-10-06 11:43:53 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-10-06 19:53:40 +0400
commit7f7bbbe50b8a28f4dfaa4cea939ddb50198c4a99 (patch)
tree6421bee762afd8f09c643e90860c4bdbe4dde93b /mm/memory.c
parent1ca4cb2418c04914e4661c059cf5b7b9262c645a (diff)
downloadlinux-7f7bbbe50b8a28f4dfaa4cea939ddb50198c4a99.tar.xz
[PATCH] page fault retry with NOPAGE_REFAULT
Add a way for a no_page() handler to request a retry of the faulting instruction. It goes back to userland on page faults and just tries again in get_user_pages(). I added a cond_resched() in the loop in that later case. The problem I have with signal and spufs is an actual bug affecting apps and I don't see other ways of fixing it. In addition, we are having issues with infiniband and 64k pages (related to the way the hypervisor deals with some HV cards) that will require us to muck around with the MMU from within the IB driver's no_page() (it's a pSeries specific driver) and return to the caller the same way using NOPAGE_REFAULT. And to add to this, the graphics folks have been following a new approach of memory management that involves transparently swapping objects between video ram and main meory. To do that, they need installing PTEs from a no_page() handler as well and that also requires returning with NOPAGE_REFAULT. (For the later, they are currently using io_remap_pfn_range to install one PTE from no_page() which is a bit racy, we need to add a check for the PTE having already been installed afer taking the lock, but that's ok, they are only at the proof-of-concept stage. I'll send a patch adding a "clean" function to do that, we can use that from spufs too and get rid of the sparsemem hacks we do to create struct page for SPEs. Basically, that provides a generic solution for being able to have no_page() map hardware devices, which is something that I think sound driver folks have been asking for some time too). All of these things depend on having the NOPAGE_REFAULT exit path from no_page() handlers. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenchmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/memory.c9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 9cf3f341a28a..b5a4aadd961a 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -1086,6 +1086,7 @@ int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
default:
BUG();
}
+ cond_resched();
}
if (pages) {
pages[i] = page;
@@ -2169,11 +2170,13 @@ retry:
* after the next truncate_count read.
*/
- /* no page was available -- either SIGBUS or OOM */
- if (new_page == NOPAGE_SIGBUS)
+ /* no page was available -- either SIGBUS, OOM or REFAULT */
+ if (unlikely(new_page == NOPAGE_SIGBUS))
return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
- if (new_page == NOPAGE_OOM)
+ else if (unlikely(new_page == NOPAGE_OOM))
return VM_FAULT_OOM;
+ else if (unlikely(new_page == NOPAGE_REFAULT))
+ return VM_FAULT_MINOR;
/*
* Should we do an early C-O-W break?