mm: allow VM_FAULT_RETRY for multiple times

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/[email protected]/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/ Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Suggested-by: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Tested-by: Brian Geffon <[email protected]> Cc: Bobby Powers <[email protected]> Cc: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]> Cc: Denis Plotnikov <[email protected]> Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" <[email protected]> Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> Cc: Jerome Glisse <[email protected]> Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <[email protected]> Cc: Martin Cracauer <[email protected]> Cc: Marty McFadden <[email protected]> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]> Cc: Maya Gokhale <[email protected]> Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Kravetz <[email protected]> Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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diff --git a/arch/alpha/mm/fault.c b/arch/alpha/mm/fault.c
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ do_page_fault(unsigned long address, unsigned long mmcsr,
 		else
 			current->min_flt++;
 		if (fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY) {
-			flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY;
+			flags |= FAULT_FLAG_TRIED;
 
 			 /* No need to up_read(&mm->mmap_sem) as we would
 			 * have already released it in __lock_page_or_retry

diff --git a/arch/arc/mm/fault.c b/arch/arc/mm/fault.c
@@ -145,7 +145,6 @@ void do_page_fault(unsigned long address, struct pt_regs *regs)
 	 */
 	if (unlikely((fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY) &&
 		     (flags & FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY))) {
-		flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY;
 		flags |= FAULT_FLAG_TRIED;
 		goto retry;
 	}

diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm/mm/fault.c
@@ -319,9 +319,6 @@ do_page_fault(unsigned long addr, unsigned int fsr, struct pt_regs *regs)
 					regs, addr);
 		}
 		if (fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY) {
-			/* Clear FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY to avoid any risk
-			* of starvation. */
-			flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY;
 			flags |= FAULT_FLAG_TRIED;
 			goto retry;
 		}

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
@@ -521,12 +521,7 @@ static int __kprobes do_page_fault(unsigned long addr, unsigned int esr,
 	}
 
 	if (fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY) {
-		/*
-		 * Clear FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY to avoid any risk of
-		 * starvation.
-		 */
 		if (mm_flags & FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY) {
-			mm_flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY;
 			mm_flags |= FAULT_FLAG_TRIED;
 			goto retry;
 		}

diff --git a/arch/hexagon/mm/vm_fault.c b/arch/hexagon/mm/vm_fault.c
@@ -102,7 +102,6 @@ void do_page_fault(unsigned long address, long cause, struct pt_regs *regs)
 			else
 				current->min_flt++;
 			if (fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY) {
-				flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY;
 				flags |= FAULT_FLAG_TRIED;
 				goto retry;
 			}

diff --git a/arch/ia64/mm/fault.c b/arch/ia64/mm/fault.c
@@ -167,7 +167,6 @@ ia64_do_page_fault (unsigned long address, unsigned long isr, struct pt_regs *re
 		else
 			current->min_flt++;
 		if (fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY) {
-			flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY;
 			flags |= FAULT_FLAG_TRIED;
 
 			 /* No need to up_read(&mm->mmap_sem) as we would

diff --git a/arch/m68k/mm/fault.c b/arch/m68k/mm/fault.c
@@ -162,9 +162,6 @@ int do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,
 		else
 			current->min_flt++;
 		if (fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY) {
-			/* Clear FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY to avoid any risk
-			 * of starvation. */
-			flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY;
 			flags |= FAULT_FLAG_TRIED;
 
 			/*

diff --git a/arch/microblaze/mm/fault.c b/arch/microblaze/mm/fault.c
@@ -236,7 +236,6 @@ void do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,
 		else
 			current->min_flt++;
 		if (fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY) {
-			flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY;
 			flags |= FAULT_FLAG_TRIED;
 
 			/*

diff --git a/arch/mips/mm/fault.c b/arch/mips/mm/fault.c
@@ -178,7 +178,6 @@ static void __kprobes __do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long write,
 			tsk->min_flt++;
 		}
 		if (fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY) {
-			flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY;
 			flags |= FAULT_FLAG_TRIED;
 
 			/*

diff --git a/arch/nds32/mm/fault.c b/arch/nds32/mm/fault.c
@@ -246,7 +246,6 @@ void do_page_fault(unsigned long entry, unsigned long addr,
 				      1, regs, addr);
 		}
 		if (fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY) {
-			flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY;
 			flags |= FAULT_FLAG_TRIED;
 
 			/* No need to up_read(&mm->mmap_sem) as we would

diff --git a/arch/nios2/mm/fault.c b/arch/nios2/mm/fault.c
@@ -157,9 +157,6 @@ asmlinkage void do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long cause,
 		else
 			current->min_flt++;
 		if (fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY) {
-			/* Clear FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY to avoid any risk
-			 * of starvation. */
-			flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY;
 			flags |= FAULT_FLAG_TRIED;
 
 			/*

diff --git a/arch/openrisc/mm/fault.c b/arch/openrisc/mm/fault.c
@@ -181,7 +181,6 @@ asmlinkage void do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,
 		else
 			tsk->min_flt++;
 		if (fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY) {
-			flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY;
 			flags |= FAULT_FLAG_TRIED;
 
 			 /* No need to up_read(&mm->mmap_sem) as we would

diff --git a/arch/parisc/mm/fault.c b/arch/parisc/mm/fault.c
@@ -328,14 +328,12 @@ void do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long code,
 		else
 			current->min_flt++;
 		if (fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY) {
-			flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY;
-
 			/*
 			 * No need to up_read(&mm->mmap_sem) as we would
 			 * have already released it in __lock_page_or_retry
 			 * in mm/filemap.c.
 			 */
-
+			flags |= FAULT_FLAG_TRIED;
 			goto retry;
 		}
 	}

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
@@ -590,13 +590,7 @@ static int __do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long address,
 	 * case.
 	 */
 	if (unlikely(fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY)) {
-		/* We retry only once */
 		if (flags & FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY) {
-			/*
-			 * Clear FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY to avoid any risk
-			 * of starvation.
-			 */
-			flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY;
 			flags |= FAULT_FLAG_TRIED;
 			goto retry;
 		}

diff --git a/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c b/arch/riscv/mm/fault.c
@@ -144,11 +144,6 @@ asmlinkage void do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs)
 				      1, regs, addr);
 		}
 		if (fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY) {
-			/*
-			 * Clear FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY to avoid any risk
-			 * of starvation.
-			 */
-			flags &= ~(FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY);
 			flags |= FAULT_FLAG_TRIED;
 
 			/*

diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/fault.c b/arch/s390/mm/fault.c
@@ -513,10 +513,7 @@ static inline vm_fault_t do_exception(struct pt_regs *regs, int access)
 				fault = VM_FAULT_PFAULT;
 				goto out_up;
 			}
-			/* Clear FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY to avoid any risk
-			 * of starvation. */
-			flags &= ~(FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY |
-				   FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT);
+			flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT;
 			flags |= FAULT_FLAG_TRIED;
 			down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 			goto retry;

diff --git a/arch/sh/mm/fault.c b/arch/sh/mm/fault.c
@@ -481,7 +481,6 @@ asmlinkage void __kprobes do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs,
 				      regs, address);
 		}
 		if (fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY) {
-			flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY;
 			flags |= FAULT_FLAG_TRIED;
 
 			/*

diff --git a/arch/sparc/mm/fault_32.c b/arch/sparc/mm/fault_32.c
@@ -261,7 +261,6 @@ asmlinkage void do_sparc_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, int text_fault, int write,
 				      1, regs, address);
 		}
 		if (fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY) {
-			flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY;
 			flags |= FAULT_FLAG_TRIED;
 
 			/* No need to up_read(&mm->mmap_sem) as we would

diff --git a/arch/sparc/mm/fault_64.c b/arch/sparc/mm/fault_64.c
@@ -449,7 +449,6 @@ asmlinkage void __kprobes do_sparc64_fault(struct pt_regs *regs)
 				      1, regs, address);
 		}
 		if (fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY) {
-			flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY;
 			flags |= FAULT_FLAG_TRIED;
 
 			/* No need to up_read(&mm->mmap_sem) as we would

diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/trap.c b/arch/um/kernel/trap.c
@@ -97,7 +97,6 @@ int handle_page_fault(unsigned long address, unsigned long ip,
 			else
 				current->min_flt++;
 			if (fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY) {
-				flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY;
 				flags |= FAULT_FLAG_TRIED;
 
 				goto retry;

diff --git a/arch/unicore32/mm/fault.c b/arch/unicore32/mm/fault.c
@@ -259,9 +259,7 @@ static int do_pf(unsigned long addr, unsigned int fsr, struct pt_regs *regs)
 		else
 			tsk->min_flt++;
 		if (fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY) {
-			/* Clear FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY to avoid any risk
-			* of starvation. */
-			flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY;
+			flags |= FAULT_FLAG_TRIED;
 			goto retry;
 		}
 	}

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -1479,8 +1479,6 @@ void do_user_addr_fault(struct pt_regs *regs,
 	 */
 	if (unlikely((fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY) &&
 		     (flags & FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY))) {
-		/* Retry at most once */
-		flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY;
 		flags |= FAULT_FLAG_TRIED;
 		goto retry;
 	}

diff --git a/arch/xtensa/mm/fault.c b/arch/xtensa/mm/fault.c
@@ -128,7 +128,6 @@ void do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs)
 		else
 			current->min_flt++;
 		if (fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY) {
-			flags &= ~FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY;
 			flags |= FAULT_FLAG_TRIED;
 
 			 /* No need to up_read(&mm->mmap_sem) as we would

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_vm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo_vm.c
@@ -59,9 +59,10 @@ static vm_fault_t ttm_bo_vm_fault_idle(struct ttm_buffer_object *bo,
 
 	/*
 	 * If possible, avoid waiting for GPU with mmap_sem
-	 * held.
+	 * held.  We only do this if the fault allows retry and this
+	 * is the first attempt.
 	 */
-	if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY) {
+	if (fault_flag_allow_retry_first(vmf->flags)) {
 		ret = VM_FAULT_RETRY;
 		if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT)
 			goto out_unlock;
@@ -135,7 +136,12 @@ vm_fault_t ttm_bo_vm_reserve(struct ttm_buffer_object *bo,
 	 * for the buffer to become unreserved.
 	 */
 	if (unlikely(!dma_resv_trylock(bo->base.resv))) {
-		if (vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY) {
+		/*
+		 * If the fault allows retry and this is the first
+		 * fault attempt, we try to release the mmap_sem
+		 * before waiting
+		 */
+		if (fault_flag_allow_retry_first(vmf->flags)) {
 			if (!(vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT)) {
 				ttm_bo_get(bo);
 				up_read(&vmf->vma->vm_mm->mmap_sem);

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -394,6 +394,25 @@ extern pgprot_t protection_map[16];
  * @FAULT_FLAG_REMOTE: The fault is not for current task/mm.
  * @FAULT_FLAG_INSTRUCTION: The fault was during an instruction fetch.
  * @FAULT_FLAG_INTERRUPTIBLE: The fault can be interrupted by non-fatal signals.
+ *
+ * About @FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY and @FAULT_FLAG_TRIED: we can specify
+ * whether we would allow page faults to retry by specifying these two
+ * fault flags correctly.  Currently there can be three legal combinations:
+ *
+ * (a) ALLOW_RETRY and !TRIED:  this means the page fault allows retry, and
+ *                              this is the first try
+ *
+ * (b) ALLOW_RETRY and TRIED:   this means the page fault allows retry, and
+ *                              we've already tried at least once
+ *
+ * (c) !ALLOW_RETRY and !TRIED: this means the page fault does not allow retry
+ *
+ * The unlisted combination (!ALLOW_RETRY && TRIED) is illegal and should never
+ * be used.  Note that page faults can be allowed to retry for multiple times,
+ * in which case we'll have an initial fault with flags (a) then later on
+ * continuous faults with flags (b).  We should always try to detect pending
+ * signals before a retry to make sure the continuous page faults can still be
+ * interrupted if necessary.
  */
 #define FAULT_FLAG_WRITE			0x01
 #define FAULT_FLAG_MKWRITE			0x02
@@ -414,6 +433,24 @@ extern pgprot_t protection_map[16];
 			     FAULT_FLAG_KILLABLE | \
 			     FAULT_FLAG_INTERRUPTIBLE)
 
+/**
+ * fault_flag_allow_retry_first - check ALLOW_RETRY the first time
+ *
+ * This is mostly used for places where we want to try to avoid taking
+ * the mmap_sem for too long a time when waiting for another condition
+ * to change, in which case we can try to be polite to release the
+ * mmap_sem in the first round to avoid potential starvation of other
+ * processes that would also want the mmap_sem.
+ *
+ * Return: true if the page fault allows retry and this is the first
+ * attempt of the fault handling; false otherwise.
+ */
+static inline bool fault_flag_allow_retry_first(unsigned int flags)
+{
+	return (flags & FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY) &&
+	    (!(flags & FAULT_FLAG_TRIED));
+}
+
 #define FAULT_FLAG_TRACE \
 	{ FAULT_FLAG_WRITE,		"WRITE" }, \
 	{ FAULT_FLAG_MKWRITE,		"MKWRITE" }, \

diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -1386,7 +1386,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__lock_page_killable);
 int __lock_page_or_retry(struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm,
 			 unsigned int flags)
 {
-	if (flags & FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY) {
+	if (fault_flag_allow_retry_first(flags)) {
 		/*
 		 * CAUTION! In this case, mmap_sem is not released
 		 * even though return 0.

diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
@@ -400,10 +400,10 @@ static inline struct file *maybe_unlock_mmap_for_io(struct vm_fault *vmf,
 	/*
 	 * FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT means we don't want to wait on page locks or
 	 * anything, so we only pin the file and drop the mmap_sem if only
-	 * FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY is set.
+	 * FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY is set, while this is the first attempt.
 	 */
-	if ((flags & (FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY | FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT)) ==
-	    FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY) {
+	if (fault_flag_allow_retry_first(flags) &&
+	    !(flags & FAULT_FLAG_RETRY_NOWAIT)) {
 		fpin = get_file(vmf->vma->vm_file);
 		up_read(&vmf->vma->vm_mm->mmap_sem);
 	}