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    x86/mm: do not trigger a kernel warning if user-space disables interrupts and... · 891cffbd
    Linus Torvalds authored
    x86/mm: do not trigger a kernel warning if user-space disables interrupts and generates a page fault
    
    Arjan reported a spike in the following bug pattern in v2.6.27:
    
       http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=lock_page
    
    
    
    which happens because hwclock started triggering warnings due to
    a (correct) might_sleep() check in the MM code.
    
    The warning occurs because hwclock uses this dubious sequence of
    code to run "atomic" code:
    
      static unsigned long
      atomic(const char *name, unsigned long (*op)(unsigned long),
             unsigned long arg)
      {
        unsigned long v;
        __asm__ volatile ("cli");
        v = (*op)(arg);
        __asm__ volatile ("sti");
        return v;
      }
    
    Then it pagefaults in that "atomic" section, triggering the warning.
    
    There is no way the kernel could provide "atomicity" in this path,
    a page fault is a cannot-continue machine event so the kernel has to
    wait for the page to be filled in.
    
    Even if it was just a minor fault we'd have to take locks and might have
    to spend quite a bit of time with interrupts disabled - not nice to irq
    latencies in general.
    
    So instead just enable interrupts in the pagefault path unconditionally
    if we come from user-space, and handle the fault.
    
    Also, while touching this code, unify some trivial parts of the x86
    VM paths at the same time.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Reported-by: default avatarArjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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