ARM: cacheflush: split user cache-flushing into interruptible chunks

Flushing a large, non-faulting VMA from userspace can potentially result
in a long time spent flushing the cache line-by-line without preemption
occurring (in the case of CONFIG_PREEMPT=n).

Whilst this doesn't affect the stability of the system, it can certainly
affect the responsiveness and CPU availability for other tasks.

This patch splits up the user cacheflush code so that it flushes in
chunks of a page. After each chunk has been flushed, we may reschedule
if appropriate and, before processing the next chunk, we allow any
pending signals to be handled before resuming from where we left off.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

1 files changed, 57 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
index cab094c234e..4d268d912b0 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/traps.c
@@ -499,6 +499,54 @@ static int bad_syscall(int n, struct pt_regs *regs)
 	return regs->ARM_r0;
 }
 
+static long do_cache_op_restart(struct restart_block *);
+
+static inline int
+__do_cache_op(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
+{
+	int ret;
+	unsigned long chunk = PAGE_SIZE;
+
+	do {
+		if (signal_pending(current)) {
+			struct thread_info *ti = current_thread_info();
+
+			ti->restart_block = (struct restart_block) {
+				.fn	= do_cache_op_restart,
+			};
+
+			ti->arm_restart_block = (struct arm_restart_block) {
+				{
+					.cache = {
+						.start	= start,
+						.end	= end,
+					},
+				},
+			};
+
+			return -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK;
+		}
+
+		ret = flush_cache_user_range(start, start + chunk);
+		if (ret)
+			return ret;
+
+		cond_resched();
+		start += chunk;
+	} while (start < end);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static long do_cache_op_restart(struct restart_block *unused)
+{
+	struct arm_restart_block *restart_block;
+
+	restart_block = &current_thread_info()->arm_restart_block;
+	return __do_cache_op(restart_block->cache.start,
+			     restart_block->cache.end);
+}
+
 static inline int
 do_cache_op(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int flags)
 {
@@ -510,17 +558,18 @@ do_cache_op(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int flags)
 
 	down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
 	vma = find_vma(mm, start);
-	if (vma && vma->vm_start < end) {
-		if (start < vma->vm_start)
-			start = vma->vm_start;
-		if (end > vma->vm_end)
-			end = vma->vm_end;
-
+	if (!vma || vma->vm_start >= end) {
 		up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-		return flush_cache_user_range(start, end);
+		return -EINVAL;
 	}
+
+	if (start < vma->vm_start)
+		start = vma->vm_start;
+	if (end > vma->vm_end)
+		end = vma->vm_end;
 	up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
-	return -EINVAL;
+
+	return __do_cache_op(start, end);
 }
 
 /*