From: Mahendran Ganesh <opensource.ganesh@xxxxxxxxx>
This patch enables the speculative page fault on the arm64
architecture.
I completed spf porting in 4.9. From the test result,
we can see app launching time improved by about 10% in average.
For the apps which have more than 50 threads, 15% or even more
improvement can be got.
Signed-off-by: Ganesh Mahendran <opensource.ganesh@xxxxxxxxx>
[handle_speculative_fault() is no more returning the vma pointer]
Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/mm/fault.c | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
index 4f343e603925..b5e2a93f9c21 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
@@ -485,6 +485,16 @@ static int __kprobes do_page_fault(unsigned long addr, unsigned int esr,
perf_sw_event(PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS, 1, regs, addr);
+ /*
+ * let's try a speculative page fault without grabbing the
+ * mmap_sem.
+ */
+ fault = handle_speculative_fault(mm, addr, mm_flags);
+ if (fault != VM_FAULT_RETRY) {
+ perf_sw_event(PERF_COUNT_SW_SPF, 1, regs, addr);
+ goto done;
+ }
+
/*
* As per x86, we may deadlock here. However, since the kernel only
* validly references user space from well defined areas of the code,
@@ -535,6 +545,8 @@ static int __kprobes do_page_fault(unsigned long addr, unsigned int esr,
}
up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+done:
+
/*
* Handle the "normal" (no error) case first.
*/
--
2.21.0
