From c9fe66560bf2dc7d109754414e309888cb8c9ba9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nadav Amit Date: Mon, 9 May 2022 18:20:50 -0700 Subject: mm/mprotect: do not flush when not required architecturally Currently, using mprotect() to unprotect a memory region or uffd to unprotect a memory region causes a TLB flush. However, in such cases the PTE is often not modified (i.e., remain RO) and therefore not TLB flush is needed. Add an arch-specific pte_needs_flush() which tells whether a TLB flush is needed based on the old PTE and the new one. Implement an x86 pte_needs_flush(). Always flush the TLB when it is architecturally needed even when skipping a TLB flush might only result in a spurious page-faults by skipping the flush. Even with such conservative manner, we can in the future further refine the checks to test whether a PTE is present by only considering the architectural _PAGE_PRESENT flag instead of {pte|pmd}_preesnt(). For not be careful and use the latter. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220401180821.1986781-3-namit@vmware.com Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yu Zhao Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Andrew Cooper Cc: Peter Xu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/mprotect.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'mm/mprotect.c') diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c index 420be0201118..20a46f21cca8 100644 --- a/mm/mprotect.c +++ b/mm/mprotect.c @@ -152,7 +152,8 @@ static unsigned long change_pte_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb, ptent = pte_mkwrite(ptent); } ptep_modify_prot_commit(vma, addr, pte, oldpte, ptent); - tlb_flush_pte_range(tlb, addr, PAGE_SIZE); + if (pte_needs_flush(oldpte, ptent)) + tlb_flush_pte_range(tlb, addr, PAGE_SIZE); pages++; } else if (is_swap_pte(oldpte)) { swp_entry_t entry = pte_to_swp_entry(oldpte); -- cgit v1.2.3