sched/preempt, mm/fault: Decouple preemption from the page fault logic

David Hildenbrand · Ingo Molnar · commit 8222dbe21e79 · 2015-05-19T08:39:18.000+02:00
As the fault handlers now all rely on the pagefault_disabled() checks and implicit preempt_disable() calls by pagefault_disable() have been made explicit, we can completely rely on the pagefault_disableD counter. So let's no longer touch the preempt count when disabling/enabling pagefaults. After a call to pagefault_disable(), pagefault_disabled() will return true, but in_atomic() won't. Reviewed-and-tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: David.Laight@ACULAB.COM Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: airlied@linux.ie Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org Cc: bigeasy@linutronix.de Cc: borntraeger@de.ibm.com Cc: daniel.vetter@intel.com Cc: heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Cc: hocko@suse.cz Cc: hughd@google.com Cc: mst@redhat.com Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com Cc: yang.shi@windriver.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431359540-32227-16-git-send-email-dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/uaccess.h b/include/linux/uaccess.h
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 #ifndef __LINUX_UACCESS_H__
 #define __LINUX_UACCESS_H__
 
-#include <linux/preempt.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 
@@ -20,17 +19,11 @@ static __always_inline void pagefault_disabled_dec(void)
  * These routines enable/disable the pagefault handler. If disabled, it will
  * not take any locks and go straight to the fixup table.
  *
- * We increase the preempt and the pagefault count, to be able to distinguish
- * whether we run in simple atomic context or in a real pagefault_disable()
- * context.
- *
- * For now, after pagefault_disabled() has been called, we run in atomic
- * context. User access methods will not sleep.
- *
+ * User access methods will not sleep when called from a pagefault_disabled()
+ * environment.
  */
 static inline void pagefault_disable(void)
 {
-	preempt_count_inc();
 	pagefault_disabled_inc();
 	/*
 	 * make sure to have issued the store before a pagefault
@@ -47,11 +40,6 @@ static inline void pagefault_enable(void)
 	 */
 	barrier();
 	pagefault_disabled_dec();
-#ifndef CONFIG_PREEMPT
-	preempt_count_dec();
-#else
-	preempt_enable();
-#endif
 }
 
 /*
