The vm_flags of vma already checked under per-VMA lock, if it is a bad access, directly set fault to VM_FAULT_BADACCESS and handle error, no need to lock_mm_and_find_vma() and check vm_flags again, the latency time reduce 34% in lmbench 'lat_sig -P 1 prot lat_sig'. Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm64/mm/fault.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c index 9bb9f395351a..405f9aa831bd 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c @@ -572,7 +572,9 @@ static int __kprobes do_page_fault(unsigned long far, unsigned long esr, if (!(vma->vm_flags & vm_flags)) { vma_end_read(vma); - goto lock_mmap; + fault = VM_FAULT_BADACCESS; + count_vm_vma_lock_event(VMA_LOCK_SUCCESS); + goto done; } fault = handle_mm_fault(vma, addr, mm_flags | FAULT_FLAG_VMA_LOCK, regs); if (!(fault & (VM_FAULT_RETRY | VM_FAULT_COMPLETED))) -- 2.27.0