The patch titled Subject: mm/mips: use general page fault accounting has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-mips-use-general-page-fault-accounting.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-mips-use-general-page-fault-accounting.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-mips-use-general-page-fault-accounting.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/mips: use general page fault accounting Use the general page fault accounting by passing regs into handle_mm_fault(). It naturally solve the issue of multiple page fault accounting when page fault retry happened. Fix PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS perf event manually for page fault retries, by moving it before taking mmap_sem. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200707225021.200906-12-peterx@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/mips/mm/fault.c | 14 +++----------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) --- a/arch/mips/mm/fault.c~mm-mips-use-general-page-fault-accounting +++ a/arch/mips/mm/fault.c @@ -96,6 +96,8 @@ static void __kprobes __do_page_fault(st if (user_mode(regs)) flags |= FAULT_FLAG_USER; + + perf_sw_event(PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS, 1, regs, address); retry: mmap_read_lock(mm); vma = find_vma(mm, address); @@ -152,12 +154,11 @@ good_area: * make sure we exit gracefully rather than endlessly redo * the fault. */ - fault = handle_mm_fault(vma, address, flags, NULL); + fault = handle_mm_fault(vma, address, flags, regs); if (fault_signal_pending(fault, regs)) return; - perf_sw_event(PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS, 1, regs, address); if (unlikely(fault & VM_FAULT_ERROR)) { if (fault & VM_FAULT_OOM) goto out_of_memory; @@ -168,15 +169,6 @@ good_area: BUG(); } if (flags & FAULT_FLAG_ALLOW_RETRY) { - if (fault & VM_FAULT_MAJOR) { - perf_sw_event(PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS_MAJ, 1, - regs, address); - tsk->maj_flt++; - } else { - perf_sw_event(PERF_COUNT_SW_PAGE_FAULTS_MIN, 1, - regs, address); - tsk->min_flt++; - } if (fault & VM_FAULT_RETRY) { flags |= FAULT_FLAG_TRIED; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from peterx@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-do-page-fault-accounting-in-handle_mm_fault.patch mm-alpha-use-general-page-fault-accounting.patch mm-arc-use-general-page-fault-accounting.patch mm-arm-use-general-page-fault-accounting.patch mm-arm64-use-general-page-fault-accounting.patch mm-csky-use-general-page-fault-accounting.patch mm-hexagon-use-general-page-fault-accounting.patch mm-ia64-use-general-page-fault-accounting.patch mm-m68k-use-general-page-fault-accounting.patch mm-microblaze-use-general-page-fault-accounting.patch mm-mips-use-general-page-fault-accounting.patch mm-nds32-use-general-page-fault-accounting.patch mm-nios2-use-general-page-fault-accounting.patch mm-openrisc-use-general-page-fault-accounting.patch mm-parisc-use-general-page-fault-accounting.patch mm-powerpc-use-general-page-fault-accounting.patch mm-riscv-use-general-page-fault-accounting.patch mm-s390-use-general-page-fault-accounting.patch mm-sh-use-general-page-fault-accounting.patch mm-sparc32-use-general-page-fault-accounting.patch mm-sparc64-use-general-page-fault-accounting.patch mm-x86-use-general-page-fault-accounting.patch mm-xtensa-use-general-page-fault-accounting.patch mm-clean-up-the-last-pieces-of-page-fault-accountings.patch mm-gup-remove-task_struct-pointer-for-all-gup-code.patch