13 Aug, 2020

2 commits

  • Use the general page fault accounting by passing regs into
    handle_mm_fault(). It naturally solve the issue of multiple page fault
    accounting when page fault retry happened.

    Fix PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS perf event manually for page fault retries,
    by moving it before taking mmap_sem.

    Signed-off-by: Peter Xu
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Acked-by: Greentime Hu
    Cc: Nick Hu
    Cc: Vincent Chen
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200707225021.200906-13-peterx@redhat.com
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Peter Xu
     
  • Patch series "mm: Page fault accounting cleanups", v5.

    This is v5 of the pf accounting cleanup series. It originates from Gerald
    Schaefer's report on an issue a week ago regarding to incorrect page fault
    accountings for retried page fault after commit 4064b9827063 ("mm: allow
    VM_FAULT_RETRY for multiple times"):

    https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200610174811.44b94525@thinkpad/

    What this series did:

    - Correct page fault accounting: we do accounting for a page fault
    (no matter whether it's from #PF handling, or gup, or anything else)
    only with the one that completed the fault. For example, page fault
    retries should not be counted in page fault counters. Same to the
    perf events.

    - Unify definition of PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS: currently this perf
    event is used in an adhoc way across different archs.

    Case (1): for many archs it's done at the entry of a page fault
    handler, so that it will also cover e.g. errornous faults.

    Case (2): for some other archs, it is only accounted when the page
    fault is resolved successfully.

    Case (3): there're still quite some archs that have not enabled
    this perf event.

    Since this series will touch merely all the archs, we unify this
    perf event to always follow case (1), which is the one that makes most
    sense. And since we moved the accounting into handle_mm_fault, the
    other two MAJ/MIN perf events are well taken care of naturally.

    - Unify definition of "major faults": the definition of "major
    fault" is slightly changed when used in accounting (not
    VM_FAULT_MAJOR). More information in patch 1.

    - Always account the page fault onto the one that triggered the page
    fault. This does not matter much for #PF handlings, but mostly for
    gup. More information on this in patch 25.

    Patchset layout:

    Patch 1: Introduced the accounting in handle_mm_fault(), not enabled.
    Patch 2-23: Enable the new accounting for arch #PF handlers one by one.
    Patch 24: Enable the new accounting for the rest outliers (gup, iommu, etc.)
    Patch 25: Cleanup GUP task_struct pointer since it's not needed any more

    This patch (of 25):

    This is a preparation patch to move page fault accountings into the
    general code in handle_mm_fault(). This includes both the per task
    flt_maj/flt_min counters, and the major/minor page fault perf events. To
    do this, the pt_regs pointer is passed into handle_mm_fault().

    PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS should still be kept in per-arch page fault
    handlers.

    So far, all the pt_regs pointer that passed into handle_mm_fault() is
    NULL, which means this patch should have no intented functional change.

    Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds
    Signed-off-by: Peter Xu
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Cc: Albert Ou
    Cc: Alexander Gordeev
    Cc: Andy Lutomirski
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
    Cc: Borislav Petkov
    Cc: Brian Cain
    Cc: Catalin Marinas
    Cc: Christian Borntraeger
    Cc: Chris Zankel
    Cc: Dave Hansen
    Cc: David S. Miller
    Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
    Cc: Gerald Schaefer
    Cc: Greentime Hu
    Cc: Guo Ren
    Cc: Heiko Carstens
    Cc: Helge Deller
    Cc: H. Peter Anvin
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky
    Cc: James E.J. Bottomley
    Cc: John Hubbard
    Cc: Jonas Bonn
    Cc: Ley Foon Tan
    Cc: "Luck, Tony"
    Cc: Matt Turner
    Cc: Max Filippov
    Cc: Michael Ellerman
    Cc: Michal Simek
    Cc: Nick Hu
    Cc: Palmer Dabbelt
    Cc: Paul Mackerras
    Cc: Paul Walmsley
    Cc: Pekka Enberg
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Richard Henderson
    Cc: Rich Felker
    Cc: Russell King
    Cc: Stafford Horne
    Cc: Stefan Kristiansson
    Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: Vasily Gorbik
    Cc: Vincent Chen
    Cc: Vineet Gupta
    Cc: Will Deacon
    Cc: Yoshinori Sato
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200707225021.200906-1-peterx@redhat.com
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200707225021.200906-2-peterx@redhat.com
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Peter Xu
     

10 Jun, 2020

4 commits

  • Convert comments that reference mmap_sem to reference mmap_lock instead.

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up linux-next leftovers]
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/lockaphore/lock/, per Vlastimil]
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: more linux-next fixups, per Michel]

    Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka
    Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan
    Cc: Davidlohr Bueso
    Cc: David Rientjes
    Cc: Hugh Dickins
    Cc: Jason Gunthorpe
    Cc: Jerome Glisse
    Cc: John Hubbard
    Cc: Laurent Dufour
    Cc: Liam Howlett
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Ying Han
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-13-walken@google.com
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Michel Lespinasse
     
  • Convert comments that reference old mmap_sem APIs to reference
    corresponding new mmap locking APIs instead.

    Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka
    Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso
    Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan
    Cc: David Rientjes
    Cc: Hugh Dickins
    Cc: Jason Gunthorpe
    Cc: Jerome Glisse
    Cc: John Hubbard
    Cc: Laurent Dufour
    Cc: Liam Howlett
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Ying Han
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-12-walken@google.com
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Michel Lespinasse
     
  • This change converts the existing mmap_sem rwsem calls to use the new mmap
    locking API instead.

    The change is generated using coccinelle with the following rule:

    // spatch --sp-file mmap_lock_api.cocci --in-place --include-headers --dir .

    @@
    expression mm;
    @@
    (
    -init_rwsem
    +mmap_init_lock
    |
    -down_write
    +mmap_write_lock
    |
    -down_write_killable
    +mmap_write_lock_killable
    |
    -down_write_trylock
    +mmap_write_trylock
    |
    -up_write
    +mmap_write_unlock
    |
    -downgrade_write
    +mmap_write_downgrade
    |
    -down_read
    +mmap_read_lock
    |
    -down_read_killable
    +mmap_read_lock_killable
    |
    -down_read_trylock
    +mmap_read_trylock
    |
    -up_read
    +mmap_read_unlock
    )
    -(&mm->mmap_sem)
    +(mm)

    Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Reviewed-by: Daniel Jordan
    Reviewed-by: Laurent Dufour
    Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka
    Cc: Davidlohr Bueso
    Cc: David Rientjes
    Cc: Hugh Dickins
    Cc: Jason Gunthorpe
    Cc: Jerome Glisse
    Cc: John Hubbard
    Cc: Liam Howlett
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Ying Han
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200520052908.204642-5-walken@google.com
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Michel Lespinasse
     
  • Patch series "mm: consolidate definitions of page table accessors", v2.

    The low level page table accessors (pXY_index(), pXY_offset()) are
    duplicated across all architectures and sometimes more than once. For
    instance, we have 31 definition of pgd_offset() for 25 supported
    architectures.

    Most of these definitions are actually identical and typically it boils
    down to, e.g.

    static inline unsigned long pmd_index(unsigned long address)
    {
    return (address >> PMD_SHIFT) & (PTRS_PER_PMD - 1);
    }

    static inline pmd_t *pmd_offset(pud_t *pud, unsigned long address)
    {
    return (pmd_t *)pud_page_vaddr(*pud) + pmd_index(address);
    }

    These definitions can be shared among 90% of the arches provided
    XYZ_SHIFT, PTRS_PER_XYZ and xyz_page_vaddr() are defined.

    For architectures that really need a custom version there is always
    possibility to override the generic version with the usual ifdefs magic.

    These patches introduce include/linux/pgtable.h that replaces
    include/asm-generic/pgtable.h and add the definitions of the page table
    accessors to the new header.

    This patch (of 12):

    The linux/mm.h header includes to allow inlining of the
    functions involving page table manipulations, e.g. pte_alloc() and
    pmd_alloc(). So, there is no point to explicitly include
    in the files that include .

    The include statements in such cases are remove with a simple loop:

    for f in $(git grep -l "include ") ; do
    sed -i -e '/include / d' $f
    done

    Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Cc: Arnd Bergmann
    Cc: Borislav Petkov
    Cc: Brian Cain
    Cc: Catalin Marinas
    Cc: Chris Zankel
    Cc: "David S. Miller"
    Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
    Cc: Greentime Hu
    Cc: Greg Ungerer
    Cc: Guan Xuetao
    Cc: Guo Ren
    Cc: Heiko Carstens
    Cc: Helge Deller
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Ley Foon Tan
    Cc: Mark Salter
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox
    Cc: Matt Turner
    Cc: Max Filippov
    Cc: Michael Ellerman
    Cc: Michal Simek
    Cc: Mike Rapoport
    Cc: Nick Hu
    Cc: Paul Walmsley
    Cc: Richard Weinberger
    Cc: Rich Felker
    Cc: Russell King
    Cc: Stafford Horne
    Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: Tony Luck
    Cc: Vincent Chen
    Cc: Vineet Gupta
    Cc: Will Deacon
    Cc: Yoshinori Sato
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200514170327.31389-1-rppt@kernel.org
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200514170327.31389-2-rppt@kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Mike Rapoport
     

11 Apr, 2020

1 commit

  • There are many places where all basic VMA access flags (read, write,
    exec) are initialized or checked against as a group. One such example
    is during page fault. Existing vma_is_accessible() wrapper already
    creates the notion of VMA accessibility as a group access permissions.

    Hence lets just create VM_ACCESS_FLAGS (VM_READ|VM_WRITE|VM_EXEC) which
    will not only reduce code duplication but also extend the VMA
    accessibility concept in general.

    Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka
    Cc: Russell King
    Cc: Catalin Marinas
    Cc: Mark Salter
    Cc: Nick Hu
    Cc: Ley Foon Tan
    Cc: Michael Ellerman
    Cc: Heiko Carstens
    Cc: Yoshinori Sato
    Cc: Guan Xuetao
    Cc: Dave Hansen
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: Rob Springer
    Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman
    Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1583391014-8170-3-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Anshuman Khandual
     

03 Apr, 2020

3 commits

  • The idea comes from a discussion between Linus and Andrea [1].

    Before this patch we only allow a page fault to retry once. We achieved
    this by clearing the FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY flag when doing
    handle_mm_fault() the second time. This was majorly used to avoid
    unexpected starvation of the system by looping over forever to handle the
    page fault on a single page. However that should hardly happen, and after
    all for each code path to return a VM_FAULT_RETRY we'll first wait for a
    condition (during which time we should possibly yield the cpu) to happen
    before VM_FAULT_RETRY is really returned.

    This patch removes the restriction by keeping the FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY
    flag when we receive VM_FAULT_RETRY. It means that the page fault handler
    now can retry the page fault for multiple times if necessary without the
    need to generate another page fault event. Meanwhile we still keep the
    FAULT_FLAG_TRIED flag so page fault handler can still identify whether a
    page fault is the first attempt or not.

    Then we'll have these combinations of fault flags (only considering
    ALLOW_RETRY flag and TRIED flag):

    - ALLOW_RETRY and !TRIED: this means the page fault allows to
    retry, and this is the first try

    - ALLOW_RETRY and TRIED: this means the page fault allows to
    retry, and this is not the first try

    - !ALLOW_RETRY and !TRIED: this means the page fault does not allow
    to retry at all

    - !ALLOW_RETRY and TRIED: this is forbidden and should never be used

    In existing code we have multiple places that has taken special care of
    the first condition above by checking against (fault_flags &
    FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY). This patch introduces a simple helper to detect
    the first retry of a page fault by checking against both (fault_flags &
    FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY) and !(fault_flag & FAULT_FLAG_TRIED) because now
    even the 2nd try will have the ALLOW_RETRY set, then use that helper in
    all existing special paths. One example is in __lock_page_or_retry(), now
    we'll drop the mmap_sem only in the first attempt of page fault and we'll
    keep it in follow up retries, so old locking behavior will be retained.

    This will be a nice enhancement for current code [2] at the same time a
    supporting material for the future userfaultfd-writeprotect work, since in
    that work there will always be an explicit userfault writeprotect retry
    for protected pages, and if that cannot resolve the page fault (e.g., when
    userfaultfd-writeprotect is used in conjunction with swapped pages) then
    we'll possibly need a 3rd retry of the page fault. It might also benefit
    other potential users who will have similar requirement like userfault
    write-protection.

    GUP code is not touched yet and will be covered in follow up patch.

    Please read the thread below for more information.

    [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20171102193644.GB22686@redhat.com/
    [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181230154648.GB9832@redhat.com/

    Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds
    Suggested-by: Andrea Arcangeli
    Signed-off-by: Peter Xu
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Tested-by: Brian Geffon
    Cc: Bobby Powers
    Cc: David Hildenbrand
    Cc: Denis Plotnikov
    Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert"
    Cc: Hugh Dickins
    Cc: Jerome Glisse
    Cc: Johannes Weiner
    Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov"
    Cc: Martin Cracauer
    Cc: Marty McFadden
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox
    Cc: Maya Gokhale
    Cc: Mel Gorman
    Cc: Mike Kravetz
    Cc: Mike Rapoport
    Cc: Pavel Emelyanov
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200220160246.9790-1-peterx@redhat.com
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Peter Xu
     
  • Although there're tons of arch-specific page fault handlers, most of them
    are still sharing the same initial value of the page fault flags. Say,
    merely all of the page fault handlers would allow the fault to be retried,
    and they also allow the fault to respond to SIGKILL.

    Let's define a default value for the fault flags to replace those initial
    page fault flags that were copied over. With this, it'll be far easier to
    introduce new fault flag that can be used by all the architectures instead
    of touching all the archs.

    Signed-off-by: Peter Xu
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Tested-by: Brian Geffon
    Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand
    Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
    Cc: Bobby Powers
    Cc: Denis Plotnikov
    Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert"
    Cc: Hugh Dickins
    Cc: Jerome Glisse
    Cc: Johannes Weiner
    Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov"
    Cc: Martin Cracauer
    Cc: Marty McFadden
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox
    Cc: Maya Gokhale
    Cc: Mel Gorman
    Cc: Mike Kravetz
    Cc: Mike Rapoport
    Cc: Pavel Emelyanov
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200220160238.9694-1-peterx@redhat.com
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Peter Xu
     
  • For most architectures, we've got a quick path to detect fatal signal
    after a handle_mm_fault(). Introduce a helper for that quick path.

    It cleans the current codes a bit so we don't need to duplicate the same
    check across archs. More importantly, this will be an unified place that
    we handle the signal immediately right after an interrupted page fault, so
    it'll be much easier for us if we want to change the behavior of handling
    signals later on for all the archs.

    Note that currently only part of the archs are using this new helper,
    because some archs have their own way to handle signals. In the follow up
    patches, we'll try to apply this helper to all the rest of archs.

    Another note is that the "regs" parameter in the new helper is not used
    yet. It'll be used very soon. Now we kept it in this patch only to avoid
    touching all the archs again in the follow up patches.

    [peterx@redhat.com: fix sparse warnings]
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200311145921.GD479302@xz-x1
    Signed-off-by: Peter Xu
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Tested-by: Brian Geffon
    Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
    Cc: Bobby Powers
    Cc: David Hildenbrand
    Cc: Denis Plotnikov
    Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert"
    Cc: Hugh Dickins
    Cc: Jerome Glisse
    Cc: Johannes Weiner
    Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov"
    Cc: Martin Cracauer
    Cc: Marty McFadden
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox
    Cc: Maya Gokhale
    Cc: Mel Gorman
    Cc: Mike Kravetz
    Cc: Mike Rapoport
    Cc: Pavel Emelyanov
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200220155353.8676-4-peterx@redhat.com
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Peter Xu
     

05 Dec, 2019

1 commit

  • nds32 has only two-level page tables and can use pgtable-nopmd and
    folding of the upper layers.

    Replace usage of include/asm-generic/4level-fixup.h and explicit
    definition of __PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED in nds32 with
    include/asm-generic/pgtable-nopmd.h and adjust page table manipulation
    macros and functions accordingly.

    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1572938135-31886-8-git-send-email-rppt@kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport
    Cc: Anatoly Pugachev
    Cc: Anton Ivanov
    Cc: Arnd Bergmann
    Cc: "David S. Miller"
    Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
    Cc: Greentime Hu
    Cc: Greg Ungerer
    Cc: Helge Deller
    Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley"
    Cc: Jeff Dike
    Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov"
    Cc: Mark Salter
    Cc: Matt Turner
    Cc: Michal Simek
    Cc: Peter Rosin
    Cc: Richard Weinberger
    Cc: Rolf Eike Beer
    Cc: Russell King
    Cc: Russell King
    Cc: Sam Creasey
    Cc: Vincent Chen
    Cc: Vineet Gupta
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Mike Rapoport
     

29 May, 2019

2 commits

  • As synchronous exceptions really only make sense against the current
    task (otherwise how are you synchronous) remove the task parameter
    from from force_sig_fault to make it explicit that is what is going
    on.

    The two known exceptions that deliver a synchronous exception to a
    stopped ptraced task have already been changed to
    force_sig_fault_to_task.

    The callers have been changed with the following emacs regular expression
    (with obvious variations on the architectures that take more arguments)
    to avoid typos:

    force_sig_fault[(]\([^,]+\)[,]\([^,]+\)[,]\([^,]+\)[,]\W+current[)]
    ->
    force_sig_fault(\1,\2,\3)

    Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

    Eric W. Biederman
     
  • Update the calls of force_sig_fault that pass in a variable that is
    set to current earlier to explicitly use current.

    This is to make the next change that removes the task parameter
    from force_sig_fault easier to verify.

    Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

    Eric W. Biederman
     

06 Nov, 2018

1 commit

  • This is the commit that porting the perf for nds32.

    1.Raw event:
    The raw events start with 'r'.
    Usage:
    perf stat -e rXYZ ./app
    X: the index of performance counter.
    YZ: the index(convert to hexdecimal) of events

    Example:
    'perf stat -e r101 ./app' means the counter 1 will count the instruction
    event.

    The index of counter and events can be found in
    "Andes System Privilege Architecture Version 3 Manual".

    Or you can perform the 'perf list' to find the symbolic name of raw events.

    2.Perf mmap2:

    Fix unexpected perf mmap2() page fault

    When the mmap2() called by perf application,
    you will encounter such condition:"failed to write."
    With return value -EFAULT

    This is due to the page fault caused by "reading" buffer
    from the mapped legal address region to write to the descriptor.
    The page_fault handler will get a VM_FAULT_SIGBUS return value,
    which should not happens here.(Due to this is a read request.)

    You can refer to kernel/events/core.c:perf_mmap_fault(...)
    If "(vmf->pgoff && (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE))" is evaluated
    as true, you will get VM_FAULT_SIGBUS as return value.

    However, this is not an write request. The flags which indicated
    why the page fault happens is wrong.

    Furthermore, NDS32 SPAv3 is not able to detect it is read or write.
    It only know either it is instruction fetch or data access.

    Therefore, by removing the wrong flag assignment(actually, the hardware
    is not able to show the reason), we can fix this bug.

    3.Perf multiple events map to same counter.

    When there are multiple events map to the same counter, the counter
    counts inaccurately. This is because each counter only counts one event
    in the same time.
    So when there are multiple events map to same counter, they have to take
    turns in each context.

    There are two solution:
    1. Print the error message when multiple events map to the same counter.
    But print the error message would let the program hang in loop. The ltp
    (linux test program) would be failed when the program hang in loop.

    2. Don't print the error message, the ltp would pass. But the user need to
    have the knowledge that don't count the events which map to the same
    counter, or the user will get the inaccurate results.

    We choose method 2 for the solution

    Signed-off-by: Nickhu
    Acked-by: Greentime Hu
    Signed-off-by: Greentime Hu

    Nickhu
     

18 Aug, 2018

1 commit

  • Use new return type vm_fault_t for fault handler. For now, this is just
    documenting that the function returns a VM_FAULT value rather than an
    errno. Once all instances are converted, vm_fault_t will become a
    distinct type.

    Ref-> commit 1c8f422059ae ("mm: change return type to vm_fault_t")

    In this patch all the caller of handle_mm_fault() are changed to return
    vm_fault_t type.

    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180617084810.GA6730@jordon-HP-15-Notebook-PC
    Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox
    Cc: Richard Henderson
    Cc: Tony Luck
    Cc: Matt Turner
    Cc: Vineet Gupta
    Cc: Russell King
    Cc: Catalin Marinas
    Cc: Will Deacon
    Cc: Richard Kuo
    Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
    Cc: Michal Simek
    Cc: James Hogan
    Cc: Ley Foon Tan
    Cc: Jonas Bonn
    Cc: James E.J. Bottomley
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
    Cc: Palmer Dabbelt
    Cc: Yoshinori Sato
    Cc: David S. Miller
    Cc: Richard Weinberger
    Cc: Guan Xuetao
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
    Cc: "Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)"
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Souptick Joarder
     

25 Apr, 2018

2 commits

  • Filling in struct siginfo before calling force_sig_info a tedious and
    error prone process, where once in a great while the wrong fields
    are filled out, and siginfo has been inconsistently cleared.

    Simplify this process by using the helper force_sig_fault. Which
    takes as a parameters all of the information it needs, ensures
    all of the fiddly bits of filling in struct siginfo are done properly
    and then calls force_sig_info.

    In short about a 5 line reduction in code for every time force_sig_info
    is called, which makes the calling function clearer.

    Cc: Greentime Hu
    Cc: Vincent Chen
    Acked-by: Vincent Chen
    Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

    Eric W. Biederman
     
  • Call clear_siginfo to ensure every stack allocated siginfo is properly
    initialized before being passed to the signal sending functions.

    Note: It is not safe to depend on C initializers to initialize struct
    siginfo on the stack because C is allowed to skip holes when
    initializing a structure.

    The initialization of struct siginfo in tracehook_report_syscall_exit
    was moved from the helper user_single_step_siginfo into
    tracehook_report_syscall_exit itself, to make it clear that the local
    variable siginfo gets fully initialized.

    In a few cases the scope of struct siginfo has been reduced to make it
    clear that siginfo siginfo is not used on other paths in the function
    in which it is declared.

    Instances of using memset to initialize siginfo have been replaced
    with calls clear_siginfo for clarity.

    Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

    Eric W. Biederman
     

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