x86/context-tracking: Remove exception_enter/exit() from do_page_fault()
authorFrederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Fri, 27 Dec 2019 16:36:11 +0000 (17:36 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 7 Jan 2020 07:11:23 +0000 (08:11 +0100)
commitee6352b2c47a24234398e06381edd93a8e965976
treea2f241fb372f40afce253afce341d233fa02067d
parentc79f46a282390e0f5b306007bf7b11a46d529538
x86/context-tracking: Remove exception_enter/exit() from do_page_fault()

do_page_fault(), like other exceptions, is already covered by
user_enter() and user_exit() when the exception triggers in userspace.

As explained in:

  8c84014f3bbb11 ("x86/entry: Remove exception_enter() from most trap handlers")

exception_enter/exit() only remained to handle possible page fault from
kernel mode while context tracking is in CONTEXT_USER mode, ie: on
kernel entry before we manage to call user_exit(). The only known
offender was do_fast_syscall_32() fetching EBP register from where
vDSO stashed it.

Meanwhile this got fixed in:

  9999c8c01f34c9 ("x86/entry: Call enter_from_user_mode() with IRQs off")

that moved enter_from_user_mode() before the call to get_user().

So we can safely remove it now.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191227163612.10039-2-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/mm/fault.c