commit 9f90b997de4efd5404a8c52f89c400f0f4e2d216
author Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Mon Apr 30 11:56:46 2007 +0100
committer Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Wed May 02 20:57:39 2007 +1000
tree 7dd6adc27b196e672fedd464a42700e336cd210a
parent eb609e52d188775da738a1ffd1e982e6212c77d7

[POWERPC] Minor fault path optimization

Call the kprobes pagefault handler directly instead of going through
the complex notifier chain.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
index ef647e7..c27f418 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@
 	return 1;
 }
 
-static int __kprobes kprobe_fault_handler(struct pt_regs *regs, int trapnr)
+int __kprobes kprobe_fault_handler(struct pt_regs *regs, int trapnr)
 {
 	struct kprobe *cur = kprobe_running();
 	struct kprobe_ctlblk *kcb = get_kprobe_ctlblk();
@@ -495,14 +495,6 @@
 		if (post_kprobe_handler(args->regs))
 			ret = NOTIFY_STOP;
 		break;
-	case DIE_PAGE_FAULT:
-		/* kprobe_running() needs smp_processor_id() */
-		preempt_disable();
-		if (kprobe_running() &&
-		    kprobe_fault_handler(args->regs, args->trapnr))
-			ret = NOTIFY_STOP;
-		preempt_enable();
-		break;
 	default:
 		break;
 	}

arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
index 03aeb3a..a0f8802 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c
@@ -39,37 +39,26 @@
 #include <asm/kdebug.h>
 #include <asm/siginfo.h>
 
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_KPROBES
-ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(notify_page_fault_chain);
-
-/* Hook to register for page fault notifications */
-int register_page_fault_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
+static inline int notify_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
-	return atomic_notifier_chain_register(&notify_page_fault_chain, nb);
-}
+	int ret = 0;
 
-int unregister_page_fault_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
-{
-	return atomic_notifier_chain_unregister(&notify_page_fault_chain, nb);
-}
+	/* kprobe_running() needs smp_processor_id() */
+	if (!user_mode(regs)) {
+		preempt_disable();
+		if (kprobe_running() && kprobe_fault_handler(regs, 11))
+			ret = 1;
+		preempt_enable();
+	}
 
-static inline int notify_page_fault(enum die_val val, const char *str,
-			struct pt_regs *regs, long err, int trap, int sig)
-{
-	struct die_args args = {
-		.regs = regs,
-		.str = str,
-		.err = err,
-		.trapnr = trap,
-		.signr = sig
-	};
-	return atomic_notifier_call_chain(&notify_page_fault_chain, val, &args);
+	return ret;
 }
 #else
-static inline int notify_page_fault(enum die_val val, const char *str,
-			struct pt_regs *regs, long err, int trap, int sig)
+static inline int notify_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
-	return NOTIFY_DONE;
+	return 0;
 }
 #endif
 
@@ -175,8 +164,7 @@
 	is_write = error_code & ESR_DST;
 #endif /* CONFIG_4xx || CONFIG_BOOKE */
 
-	if (notify_page_fault(DIE_PAGE_FAULT, "page_fault", regs, error_code,
-				11, SIGSEGV) == NOTIFY_STOP)
+	if (notify_page_fault(regs))
 		return 0;
 
 	if (trap == 0x300) {