mm: return faster for non-fatal signals in user mode faults
The idea comes from the upstream discussion between Linus and Andrea:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20171102193644.GB22686@redhat.com/
A summary to the issue: there was a special path in handle_userfault() in
the past that we'll return a VM_FAULT_NOPAGE when we detected non-fatal
signals when waiting for userfault handling. We did that by reacquiring
the mmap_sem before returning. However that brings a risk in that the
vmas might have changed when we retake the mmap_sem and even we could be
holding an invalid vma structure.
This patch is a preparation of removing that special path by allowing the
page fault to return even faster if we were interrupted by a non-fatal
signal during a user-mode page fault handling routine.
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Suggested-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Cc: Bobby Powers <bobbypowers@gmail.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Denis Plotnikov <dplotnikov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
Cc: Marty McFadden <mcfadden8@llnl.gov>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Maya Gokhale <gokhale2@llnl.gov>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200220160230.9598-1-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/sched/signal.h b/include/linux/sched/signal.h
index 7e72713..65ea429 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/signal.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/signal.h
@@ -381,7 +381,8 @@ static inline bool fault_signal_pending(vm_fault_t fault_flags,
struct pt_regs *regs)
{
return unlikely((fault_flags & VM_FAULT_RETRY) &&
- fatal_signal_pending(current));
+ (fatal_signal_pending(current) ||
+ (user_mode(regs) && signal_pending(current))));
}
/*