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linux-next/arch/x86/lib/usercopy.c
Peter Zijlstra e00b12e64b perf/x86: Further optimize copy_from_user_nmi()
Now that we can deal with nested NMI due to IRET re-enabling NMIs and
can deal with faults from NMI by making sure we preserve CR2 over NMIs
we can in fact simply access user-space memory from NMI context.

So rewrite copy_from_user_nmi() to use __copy_from_user_inatomic() and
rework the fault path to do the minimal required work before taking
the in_atomic() fault handler.

In particular avoid perf_sw_event() which would make perf recurse on
itself (it should be harmless as our recursion protections should be
able to deal with this -- but why tempt fate).

Also rename notify_page_fault() to kprobes_fault() as that is a much
better name; there is no notifier in it and its specific to kprobes.

Don measured that his worst case NMI path shrunk from ~300K cycles to
~150K cycles.

Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: jmario@redhat.com
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Tested-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131024105206.GM2490@laptop.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-29 12:02:54 +01:00

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/*
* User address space access functions.
*
* For licencing details see kernel-base/COPYING
*/
#include <linux/highmem.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <asm/word-at-a-time.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
/*
* We rely on the nested NMI work to allow atomic faults from the NMI path; the
* nested NMI paths are careful to preserve CR2.
*/
unsigned long
copy_from_user_nmi(void *to, const void __user *from, unsigned long n)
{
unsigned long ret;
if (__range_not_ok(from, n, TASK_SIZE))
return 0;
/*
* Even though this function is typically called from NMI/IRQ context
* disable pagefaults so that its behaviour is consistent even when
* called form other contexts.
*/
pagefault_disable();
ret = __copy_from_user_inatomic(to, from, n);
pagefault_enable();
return n - ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(copy_from_user_nmi);