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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) { |