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From: Ram Tummala <rtummala@nvidia.com>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, fengwei.yin@intel.com
Cc: willy@infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apopple@nvidia.com,
	rtummala@nvidia.com, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] mm: Fix PTE_AF handling in fault path on architectures with HW AF support
Date: Tue,  9 Jul 2024 17:09:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240710000942.623704-1-rtummala@nvidia.com> (raw)

Commit 3bd786f76de2 ("mm: convert do_set_pte() to set_pte_range()")
replaced do_set_pte() with set_pte_range() and that introduced a regression
in the following faulting path of non-anonymous vmas on CPUs with HW AF
support.

handle_pte_fault()
  do_pte_missing()
    do_fault()
      do_read_fault() || do_cow_fault() || do_shared_fault()
        finish_fault()
          set_pte_range()

The polarity of prefault calculation is incorrect. This leads to prefault
being incorrectly set for the faulting address. The following if check will
incorrectly clear the PTE_AF bit instead of setting it and the access will
fault again on the same address due to the missing PTE_AF bit.

    if (prefault && arch_wants_old_prefaulted_pte())
        entry = pte_mkold(entry);

On a subsequent fault on the same address, the faulting path will see a non
NULL vmf->pte and instead of reaching the do_pte_missing() path, PTE_AF
will be correctly set in handle_pte_fault() itself.

Due to this bug, performance degradation in the fault handling path will be
observed due to unnecessary double faulting.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 3bd786f76de2 ("mm: convert do_set_pte() to set_pte_range()")
Signed-off-by: Ram Tummala <rtummala@nvidia.com>
---
 mm/memory.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 0a769f34bbb2..03263034a040 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -4781,7 +4781,7 @@ void set_pte_range(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct folio *folio,
 {
 	struct vm_area_struct *vma = vmf->vma;
 	bool write = vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE;
-	bool prefault = in_range(vmf->address, addr, nr * PAGE_SIZE);
+	bool prefault = !in_range(vmf->address, addr, nr * PAGE_SIZE);
 	pte_t entry;
 
 	flush_icache_pages(vma, page, nr);
-- 
2.34.1


             reply	other threads:[~2024-07-10  0:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-10  0:09 Ram Tummala [this message]
2024-07-10  0:13 ` [PATCH] mm: Fix PTE_AF handling in fault path on architectures with HW AF support Matthew Wilcox
2024-07-10  1:02   ` Alistair Popple
2024-07-10  1:08 ` Yin, Fengwei
2024-07-10  4:07 ` David Hildenbrand

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