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From:   Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] mm: Avoid unnecessary page fault retires on shared
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On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 11:35:10AM +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 29.05.22 um 22:33 schrieb Heiko Carstens:
> [...]
> > 
> > Guess the patch below on top of your patch is what we want.
> > Just for clarification: if gmap is not NULL then the process is a kvm
> > process. So, depending on the workload, this optimization makes sense.
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/fault.c b/arch/s390/mm/fault.c
> > index 4608cc962ecf..e1d40ca341b7 100644
> > --- a/arch/s390/mm/fault.c
> > +++ b/arch/s390/mm/fault.c
> > @@ -436,12 +436,11 @@ static inline vm_fault_t do_exception(struct pt_regs *regs, int access)
> >   	/* The fault is fully completed (including releasing mmap lock) */
> >   	if (fault & VM_FAULT_COMPLETED) {
> > -		/*
> > -		 * Gmap will need the mmap lock again, so retake it.  TODO:
> > -		 * only conditionally take the lock when CONFIG_PGSTE set.
> > -		 */
> > -		mmap_read_lock(mm);
> > -		goto out_gmap;
> > +		if (gmap) {
> > +			mmap_read_lock(mm);
> > +			goto out_gmap;
> > +		}
> > +		goto out;
> 
> Yes, that makes sense. With that
> 
> Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>

Looks sane, thanks Heiko, Christian.  I'll cook another one.

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Peter Xu