Merge branch 'perf/core' into perf/uprobes

Merge in latest upstream (and the latest perf development tree),
to prepare for tooling changes, and also to pick up v3.4 MM
changes that the uprobes code needs to take care of.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 62 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
index 76bff2bff15..125c54e9851 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
 
 #include <linux/mm_types.h>
+#include <linux/bug.h>
 
 #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_SET_ACCESS_FLAGS
 extern int ptep_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
@@ -425,6 +426,8 @@ extern void untrack_pfn_vma(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long pfn,
 				unsigned long size);
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
+
 #ifndef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
 static inline int pmd_trans_huge(pmd_t pmd)
 {
@@ -441,7 +444,66 @@ static inline int pmd_write(pmd_t pmd)
 	return 0;
 }
 #endif /* __HAVE_ARCH_PMD_WRITE */
+#endif /* CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE */
+
+/*
+ * This function is meant to be used by sites walking pagetables with
+ * the mmap_sem hold in read mode to protect against MADV_DONTNEED and
+ * transhuge page faults. MADV_DONTNEED can convert a transhuge pmd
+ * into a null pmd and the transhuge page fault can convert a null pmd
+ * into an hugepmd or into a regular pmd (if the hugepage allocation
+ * fails). While holding the mmap_sem in read mode the pmd becomes
+ * stable and stops changing under us only if it's not null and not a
+ * transhuge pmd. When those races occurs and this function makes a
+ * difference vs the standard pmd_none_or_clear_bad, the result is
+ * undefined so behaving like if the pmd was none is safe (because it
+ * can return none anyway). The compiler level barrier() is critically
+ * important to compute the two checks atomically on the same pmdval.
+ */
+static inline int pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad(pmd_t *pmd)
+{
+	/* depend on compiler for an atomic pmd read */
+	pmd_t pmdval = *pmd;
+	/*
+	 * The barrier will stabilize the pmdval in a register or on
+	 * the stack so that it will stop changing under the code.
+	 */
+#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+	barrier();
+#endif
+	if (pmd_none(pmdval))
+		return 1;
+	if (unlikely(pmd_bad(pmdval))) {
+		if (!pmd_trans_huge(pmdval))
+			pmd_clear_bad(pmd);
+		return 1;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/*
+ * This is a noop if Transparent Hugepage Support is not built into
+ * the kernel. Otherwise it is equivalent to
+ * pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad(), and shall only be called in
+ * places that already verified the pmd is not none and they want to
+ * walk ptes while holding the mmap sem in read mode (write mode don't
+ * need this). If THP is not enabled, the pmd can't go away under the
+ * code even if MADV_DONTNEED runs, but if THP is enabled we need to
+ * run a pmd_trans_unstable before walking the ptes after
+ * split_huge_page_pmd returns (because it may have run when the pmd
+ * become null, but then a page fault can map in a THP and not a
+ * regular page).
+ */
+static inline int pmd_trans_unstable(pmd_t *pmd)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+	return pmd_none_or_trans_huge_or_clear_bad(pmd);
+#else
+	return 0;
 #endif
+}
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_MMU */
 
 #endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */