[RFC v4 19/20] powerpc/mm: Add speculative page fault

[Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

This patch enable the speculative page fault on the PowerPC
architecture.

This will try a speculative page fault without holding the mmap_sem,
if it returns with WM_FAULT_RETRY, the mmap_sem is acquired and the
traditional page fault processing is done.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
index 3a7d580fdc59..6dd6a50f412f 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
@@ -290,9 +290,32 @@ int do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,
 	if (!is_exec && user_mode(regs))
 		store_update_sp = store_updates_sp(regs);
 
-	if (user_mode(regs))
+	if (user_mode(regs)) {
 		flags |= FAULT_FLAG_USER;
 
+		/* let's try a speculative page fault without grabbing the
+		 * mmap_sem.
+		 */
+
+		/*
+		 * flags is set later based on the VMA's flags, for the common
+		 * speculative service, we need some flags to be set.
+		 */
+		if (is_write)
+			flags |= FAULT_FLAG_WRITE;
+
+		fault = handle_speculative_fault(mm, address,
+					 flags & ~FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY);
+		if (!(fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY || fault & VM_FAULT_ERROR))
+			goto done;
+
+		/*
+		 * Resetting flags since the following code assumes
+		 * FAULT_FLAG_WRITE is not set.
+		 */
+		flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_WRITE;
+	}
+
 	/* When running in the kernel we expect faults to occur only to
 	 * addresses in user space.  All other faults represent errors in the
 	 * kernel and should generate an OOPS.  Unfortunately, in the case of an
@@ -478,6 +501,7 @@ int do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,
 			rc = 0;
 	}
 
+done:
 	/*
 	 * Major/minor page fault accounting.
 	 */
-- 
2.7.4

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