[PATCH v1 2/5] uaccess: count pagefault_disable() levels in pagefault_count

David Hildenbrand
2014-12-05T11:18:22Z

pagefault_disable() and pagefault_enable() have to increment/decrement the
pagefault_count. We keep manipulating the preempt count to retain compability
to existing pagefault handlers. This has to be demangled in separate patches.

It is now possible to verify whether in a pagefault_disable() envionment by
calling pagefault_disabled().

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
include/linux/uaccess.h | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/uaccess.h b/include/linux/uaccess.h
index ecd3319..1dfc678 100644
--- a/include/linux/uaccess.h
+++ b/include/linux/uaccess.h
@@ -2,20 +2,45 @@
#define __LINUX_UACCESS_H__

#include <linux/preempt.h>
+#include <linux/thread_info.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>

+static __always_inline int pagefault_count(void)
+{
+ return current_thread_info()->pagefault_count;
+}
+
+static __always_inline int *pagefault_count_ptr(void)
+{
+ return &current_thread_info()->pagefault_count;
+}
+
+static __always_inline void pagefault_count_inc(void)
+{
+ (*pagefault_count_ptr())++;
+}
+
+static __always_inline void pagefault_count_dec(void)
+{
+ (*pagefault_count_ptr())--;
+}
+
/*
- * These routines enable/disable the pagefault handler in that
- * it will not take any locks and go straight to the fixup table.
+ * These routines enable/disable the pagefault handler. If disabled, it will
+ * not take any locks and go straight to the fixup table.
+ *
+ * We increase the preempt and the pagefault count, to be able to distinguish
+ * whether we run in simple atomic context or in a real pagefault_disable()
+ * context.
+ *
+ * For now, after pagefault_disabled() has been called, we run in atomic
+ * context. User access methods will not sleep.
*
- * They have great resemblance to the preempt_disable/enable calls
- * and in fact they are identical; this is because currently there is
- * no other way to make the pagefault handlers do this. So we do
- * disable preemption but we don't necessarily care about that.
*/
static inline void pagefault_disable(void)
{
preempt_count_inc();
+ pagefault_count_inc();
/*
* make sure to have issued the store before a pagefault
* can hit.
@@ -25,18 +50,24 @@ static inline void pagefault_disable(void)

static inline void pagefault_enable(void)
{
-#ifndef CONFIG_PREEMPT
/*
* make sure to issue those last loads/stores before enabling
* the pagefault handler again.
*/
barrier();
+ pagefault_count_dec();
+#ifndef CONFIG_PREEMPT
preempt_count_dec();
#else
preempt_enable();
#endif
}

+/*
+ * Is the pagefault handler disabled? If so, user access methods will not sleep.
+ */
+#define pagefault_disabled() (pagefault_count() != 0)
+
#ifndef ARCH_HAS_NOCACHE_UACCESS

static inline unsigned long __copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache(void *to,
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