Re: [PATCH v4] mm: Avoid unnecessary page fault retires on shared memory types

[Christian Borntraeger]

Am 30.05.22 um 18:00 schrieb Peter Xu:
> On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 11:52:54AM -0400, Peter Xu wrote:
> > On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 11:35:10AM +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> > > Am 29.05.22 um 22:33 schrieb Heiko Carstens:
> > > [...]
> > > > Guess the patch below on top of your patch is what we want.
> > > > Just for clarification: if gmap is not NULL then the process is a kvm
> > > > process. So, depending on the workload, this optimization makes sense.
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/fault.c b/arch/s390/mm/fault.c
> > > > index 4608cc962ecf..e1d40ca341b7 100644
> > > > --- a/arch/s390/mm/fault.c
> > > > +++ b/arch/s390/mm/fault.c
> > > > @@ -436,12 +436,11 @@ static inline vm_fault_t do_exception(struct pt_regs *regs, int access)
> > > >    	/* The fault is fully completed (including releasing mmap lock) */
> > > >    	if (fault & VM_FAULT_COMPLETED) {
> > > > -		/*
> > > > -		 * Gmap will need the mmap lock again, so retake it.  TODO:
> > > > -		 * only conditionally take the lock when CONFIG_PGSTE set.
> > > > -		 */
> > > > -		mmap_read_lock(mm);
> > > > -		goto out_gmap;
> > > > +		if (gmap) {
> > > > +			mmap_read_lock(mm);
> > > > +			goto out_gmap;
> > > > +		}
> > > > +		goto out;
>
> Hmm, right after I replied I found "goto out" could be problematic, since
> all s390 callers of do_exception() will assume it an error condition (side
> note: "goto out_gmap" contains one step to clear "fault" to 0).  I'll
> replace this with "return 0" instead if it looks good to both of you.
>
> I'll wait for a confirmation before reposting.  Thanks,

Yes, that sounds good and thank you for double checking.