[PATCH] Notify page fault call chain for ia64

Overloading of page fault notification with the notify_die() has performance
issues(since the only interested components for page fault is kprobes and/or
kdb) and hence this patch introduces the new notifier call chain exclusively
for page fault notifications their by avoiding notifying unnecessary
components in the do_page_fault() code path.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[e-mail]>

arch/ia64/mm/fault.c

···
 
 extern void die (char *, struct pt_regs *, long);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_KPROBES
+ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(notify_page_fault_chain);
+
+/* Hook to register for page fault notifications */
+int register_page_fault_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
+{
+	return atomic_notifier_chain_register(&notify_page_fault_chain, nb);
+}
+
+int unregister_page_fault_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
+{
+	return atomic_notifier_chain_unregister(&notify_page_fault_chain, nb);
+}
+
+static inline int notify_page_fault(enum die_val val, const char *str,
+			struct pt_regs *regs, long err, int trap, int sig)
+{
+	struct die_args args = {
+		.regs = regs,
+		.str = str,
+		.err = err,
+		.trapnr = trap,
+		.signr = sig
+	};
+	return atomic_notifier_call_chain(&notify_page_fault_chain, val, &args);
+}
+#else
+static inline int notify_page_fault(enum die_val val, const char *str,
+			struct pt_regs *regs, long err, int trap, int sig)
+{
+	return NOTIFY_DONE;
+}
+#endif
+
 /*
  * Return TRUE if ADDRESS points at a page in the kernel's mapped segment
  * (inside region 5, on ia64) and that page is present.
···
 	/*
 	 * This is to handle the kprobes on user space access instructions
 	 */
-	if (notify_die(DIE_PAGE_FAULT, "page fault", regs, code, TRAP_BRKPT,
+	if (notify_page_fault(DIE_PAGE_FAULT, "page fault", regs, code, TRAP_BRKPT,
 					SIGSEGV) == NOTIFY_STOP)
 		return;
 

include/asm-ia64/kdebug.h

···
 
 extern int register_die_notifier(struct notifier_block *);
 extern int unregister_die_notifier(struct notifier_block *);
+extern int register_page_fault_notifier(struct notifier_block *);
+extern int unregister_page_fault_notifier(struct notifier_block *);
 extern struct atomic_notifier_head ia64die_chain;
 
 enum die_val {