On arm64 without hardware Access Flag, copying fromuser will fail because the pte is old and cannot be marked young. So we always end up with zeroed page after fork() + CoW for pfn mappings. we don't always have a hardware-managed access flag on arm64. Hence implement arch_faults_on_old_pte on arm64 to indicate that it might cause page fault when accessing old pte. Signed-off-by: Jia He <justin.he@xxxxxxx> --- arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h index e09760ece844..4a9939615e41 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h @@ -868,6 +868,18 @@ static inline void update_mmu_cache(struct vm_area_struct *vma, #define phys_to_ttbr(addr) (addr) #endif +/* + * On arm64 without hardware Access Flag, copying fromuser will fail because + * the pte is old and cannot be marked young. So we always end up with zeroed + * page after fork() + CoW for pfn mappings. we don't always have a + * hardware-managed access flag on arm64. + */ +static inline bool arch_faults_on_old_pte(void) +{ + return !cpu_has_hw_af(); +} +#define arch_faults_on_old_pte arch_faults_on_old_pte + #endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */ #endif /* __ASM_PGTABLE_H */ -- 2.17.1