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    Subject[tip: timers/core] x86/vdso: On timens page fault prefault also VVAR page
    The following commit has been merged into the timers/core branch of tip:

    Commit-ID: e6b28ec65b6d433624a2c290073bc356c4fce914
    Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/e6b28ec65b6d433624a2c290073bc356c4fce914
    Author: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
    AuthorDate: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 01:27:14
    Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    CommitterDate: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 12:20:59 +01:00

    x86/vdso: On timens page fault prefault also VVAR page

    As timens page has offsets to data on VVAR page VVAR is going
    to be accessed shortly. Set it up with timens in one page fault
    as optimization.

    Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Co-developed-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191112012724.250792-26-dima@arista.com


    ---
    arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
    1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

    diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.c b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.c
    index e5f3361..d2fd8a5 100644
    --- a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.c
    +++ b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/vma.c
    @@ -170,8 +170,23 @@ static vm_fault_t vvar_fault(const struct vm_special_mapping *sm,
    * offset.
    * See also the comment near timens_setup_vdso_data().
    */
    - if (timens_page)
    + if (timens_page) {
    + unsigned long addr;
    + vm_fault_t err;
    +
    + /*
    + * Optimization: inside time namespace pre-fault
    + * VVAR page too. As on timens page there are only
    + * offsets for clocks on VVAR, it'll be faulted
    + * shortly by VDSO code.
    + */
    + addr = vmf->address + (image->sym_timens_page - sym_offset);
    + err = vmf_insert_pfn(vma, addr, pfn);
    + if (unlikely(err & VM_FAULT_ERROR))
    + return err;
    +
    pfn = page_to_pfn(timens_page);
    + }

    return vmf_insert_pfn(vma, vmf->address, pfn);
    } else if (sym_offset == image->sym_pvclock_page) {
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